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Proofpoint researchers recently analyzed a wide variety of apps available on iOS and Android app stores and quantified the extent of the risk they pose to their users, as well as their personal and company data. One of the key findings from the study is that clearly, one cannot ‘judge a book by its cover’: from card games to flashlights to holy books, some apps steal data, some track users’ location and message contacts while others...

How to calculate ROI and justify your cybersecurity budget By Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech Bridge If you speak with management about money – speak their language and you will definitely get what you need.  Almost eight years ago, Bruce Schneier wrote a great article about the problems of ROI calculation for cybersecurity spending within organizations. Since then, both annual spending on cybersecurity and the cost of global cybercrime have significantly increased. Despite that organizations increased their information security budgets...

The tools used by cyber-criminals against businesses in 2015 were different to those used against consumers, according to Kaspersky Lab’s review of corporate threats in the last twelve months.  They included greater exploitation of legitimate software programs and malware being signed with valid digital signatures to keep malicious files hidden for longer. Kaspersky Lab’s experts also observed a steady rise in the number of corporate users attacked by ransomware.   Kaspersky Lab’s experts found that in...

Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading next-generation cybersecurity company, today announced the first solution that automatically identifies Instagram security threats, compliance violations and inappropriate content for removal. Proofpoint SocialPatrol™ performs advanced analysis of images, text and text embedded within images, enabling brands and compliance-aware organizations to monitor and eliminate posts and comments. “Proofpoint SocialPatrol helped us control high levels of spam and inappropriate comments on our Instagram accounts,” said Jeff Hagen, director of Global Customer...

Distributed cryptography company MIRACL today announced that Experian has selected its identity technology to provide highly secure authentication to millions of UK citizens. Experian is a certified identity assurance provider for GOV.UK Verify, the new way for UK citizens to use government services online like renewing your driving license or filling out your tax safely, securely and straightforwardly. The MIRACL M-Pin Crypto application is an enabling technology that Experian has selected to provide a high level...

Too many Board decisions are being made without considering cyber security, leaving companies open to increased information risk and threats, say APMG International and Templar Executives. The cyber security training and certification firms have called for a serious shake-up to traditional Board meetings and for non-executive directors to hold directors to greater account for their cyber decisions. APMG warned earlier this month that understanding cyber security and acting on it has now become part of...

Phishing scams are a persistent problem for businesses and consumers. The Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report revealed that at least one in 10 people fall for phishing attempts. During the holiday season, inboxes everywhere are flooded with e-cards and messages from relatives, friends and well-wishers. Unfortunately, some of these emails may include nefarious software. “Around the holidays, a very common ploy for cyber criminals is to send fake e-greeting cards with malicious files attached,”...

10Fold, a full-service B2B technology public relations agency, today announced that more than 193.4 million personal records are vulnerable to identity theft and fraud attributed to the top data breaches of 2015. In its year-in-review, 10Fold analyzed 720 data breaches that occurred throughout the year and highlighted seven of the largest. “As the research 10Fold has conducted clearly shows, security never sleeps. Each of the top seven data breaches compromised more than 5 million records,...

According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of those behind recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)  attacks against them, with many naming competitors as key culprits.  Whilst criminals seeking to disrupt a company’s operations make up over a quarter (28 per cent) of the suspects, a surprising one in eight (12 per cent) companies believe that...

Imperva has today released its fourth annual Bot Traffic Report and one of the key findings is that for the first time in four years human traffic has overtaken botnet traffic on the web. In the past, good and bad bots have always been responsible for most of the activity on our network. This year, however, saw a changing of the guard, with humans stepping in to become the Internet’s new majority. Tim Matthews, VP...