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Despite the growing risk of cyber-attack, 73% of Europeans would rather reveal their online passwords than go without underwear, according to a European study by Kaspersky Lab and IFOP.  The new study aims to raise awareness among consumers that passwords are a lot like underwear, and that password management to maintain a private life online is not that different from responsible underwear-management. The study explored the difference between Internet users' password-changing habits and their attitudes...

While more than two thirds (68 per cent) of online users would immediately stop using a bank or retailer if the site suffered a security attack or data breach, a quarter would continue using the site. This is according to a survey conducted for global information security and risk management company, NTT Com Security. The poll of more than 500 UK consumers explores ‘consumer trust’ in online sites, including retailers, banks, social networks and dating sites, and...

As enterprises become larger, managing employee behaviour becomes harder and the risk of a breach occurring within an organisation intensifies. Companies are aware the threat looms large, with 40% of firms expecting a data breach in the next 12 months, as a result of employee behaviour and employees indicating widespread lack of awareness of good cyber security practice. This raises an important question, why have firms been so slow to address the insider threat and...

The UK has a new Cyber Security Champion following the Cyber Security Challenge UK Awards in London tonight.  Peter Clarke, from Leicester, a 38 year old network engineer for high-end car dealer, beat thousands of entrants and 41 fellow finalists in order to claim the top spot in the UK’s premier cyber skills competition. The two-day Masterclass final was developed by a team from QinetiQ and supported by experts from Bank of England, GCHQ, National...

Norton by Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today released its findings from the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report revealing more than 12 million British people have experienced cybercrime in the past year. Over the last year, UK consumers’ lost more than one working day (9 hours) dealing with the fallout from online crime and nearly £134 per person – totalling an estimated £1.6B across the nation. Surveying more than 1,000 consumers in the UK the research sheds a...

Today the UK's most promising amateur cyber defenders will compete to avert a simulated biological attack on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, staged by a fictional cyber terrorist group. The competition, known as Masterclass and run by the Cyber Security Challenge UK, has been developed by QinetiQ and a consortium of the country’s elite cyber experts from, Bank of England, GCHQ, National Crime Agency, BT, Cisco, Falanx Group, Roke Manor Research, Simudyne, and United States...

OPSWAT today announced the release of their quarterly market share report, which shows the top 12 anti-malware vendors by market share as well as various other user behaviour statistics collected from their device security and compliance tool, OPSWAT Gears. Out of the 59 anti-malware vendors analysed for the November 2015 report, the top three by market share are Microsoft, Avast and Malwarebytes. To see all of the top vendors and their corresponding market share, please view...

As retailers prepare for cyber Monday and the online Christmas shopping rush, they must face the challenge of securing a myriad of smart devices and protecting the increasing flow of sensitive customer information, says iSheriff in a new report published this week. The report suggests that technology driven omni-channel retailing strategies that blur the lines between in-store and online retail, significantly increase exposure points and opportunities for cyber-security breaches. Retail web sales are expected to...

Balabit, a leading provider of contextual security technologies, today unveiled the results of its pan-European survey into the current state of IT security. The survey looked at how organisations balance IT security and business flexibility; whether they choose to be more secure by implementing additional controls that might hinder productivity or prefer to have flexible business operations. It also looked at how a promising business opportunity changes the game. Balabit asked 381 IT executives, CIO’s, CISO’s,...

Business security is no longer an issue solely for the IT department. It now spans into the boardroom and can have great financial impact. Recent high profile data breaches are proof of this, with CEOs and CFOs under heavy scrutiny. This also comes at a time when the upcoming changes to the European General Data Protection Regulation are set to carry fines for noncompliance at as high as 2% of annual worldwide turnover. In light of...