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451 Research, an information technology research and advisory company, has determined that cellular Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) connections will increase nearly fourfold globally from 252 million in 2014 to 908 million in 2019. A monumental increase in active cellular IoT/M2M connections will be driven by a number of key factors.  First, hardware and bandwidth costs have dropped to a point where nearly every enterprise can reap the benefits of virtualizing...

New research has forecast that Wi-Fi networks will carry almost 60% of smartphone and tablet data traffic by 2019, reaching over 115,000PB (Petabytes) by 2019, compared to under 30,000PB this year - representing almost a four-fold increase. Addressing the Wi-Fi Offload Benefits & Challenge The new research - Mobile Data Offload & Onload: Wi-Fi, Small Cell & Network Strategies 2015-2019- found that mobile data offload, , offers several key benefits to industry stakeholders. Offload not...

New research from RiskIQ, the Digital Footprint Security company, highlights the risks posed to UK organisation’s and their customers from unauthorised or fraudulent mobile apps and unauthorised app stores. Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than they are aware of, many of which come from a new breed of hacker intent on compromising their digital assets and...

Today, Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has released its findings into the little-known malware family called Stegoloader. Appearing to have been active since 2012, this particular malware uses digital steganography – the art of hiding secret information within a digital image or graphic – to conceal its true nature and to avoid detection. Pierre-Marc Bureau, the senior security researcher leading this project, discovered that Stegoloader operators are hiding a core component of the malware...

A new report from Telstra reveals the majority of consumers using mobile banking applications want their mobile devices to instantly recognise them via biometrics, such as fingerprint and voiceprint, instead of having to prove who they are with passwords and usernames. According to Telstra’s “Mobile Identity – The Fusion of Financial Services, Mobile and Identity” report, with smartphones now the primary channel used by Gen X and Gen Y to access and manage their finances,...

Imagine if an authoritarian state had a tool to get private information about users visiting certain websites, including real names, cookies, mail addresses, sex, birthdays, phone numbers, etc. Imagine that even users that run TOR or VPN connections to bypass the tools that the authoritarian government uses to block and monitor these websites were exposed to this technique. A new research paper has been published, revealing how Chinese hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in the country’s most...

It came to light yesterday afternoon that, in early spring 2015, Kaspersky Lab detected a cyber-intrusion affecting several of its internal systems. Following this finding, the company launched an intensive investigation, which led to the discovery of a new malware platform from one of the most skilled threat actors in the APT world: Duqu. The attack exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and after elevating privileges to domain administrator, the malware was spread in the network through MSI files....

Advancement in broadband technologies and the move towards ‘Big Data’ will leave the maritime industry vulnerable to cyber-crime unless it develops a better awareness of ICT security and adopts security best practice, warns ESC Global Security’s head of cyber security division, Joseph Carson. “There is the potential for a major cyber-attack on the maritime industry to significantly disrupt food and energy supplies given that shipping transports 90% of the world’s global trade. Certainly there is...

OPSWAT, a software company that provides solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure, has just released its latest market share report, which includes market share for peer-to-peer file sharing products as well as detailed comparisons between Mac and Windows devices. The research specifically looked at the use of file sharing, antivirus software and RTP (Real Time Protection) between both Windows and Mac users. For the first time, this report includes Mac device data, which allows for a comparison of...

More than 50 million people per month could be at risk of a mass-scale ‘malvertising’ cyber-attack that turns computers into Zombies, according to researchers at Raytheon|Websense. The attack routes through advertising platforms to target popular websites, with researchers noting breaches on Bejewelled Blitz on Facebook, CNN Indonesia, the official websites of Prague Airport and RTL Television Croatia, as well as Detik and AASTOCKS. The Websense Labs team discovered the attack utilises open advertising platform OpenX,...