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With Security Serious just a week away, the organisations involved with the campaign - aimed at making UK Plc a safer place to trade online - have today offered some Hacking Horror Stories and Frightening Facts to help organisations unmask the virtual spooks this Halloween. “2015 has seen an unprecedented number of hacking horror stories. Yet, while cyber-crime is on the increase, security awareness is still low on people’s list of priorities. We’re hoping our...

PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions, announced today that it has acquired key assets of phishing intelligence firm – Malcovery Security LLC, for an undisclosed sum. “This acquisition rounds out our portfolio of targeted phishing mitigation, detection, and response solutions, making us the go-to solution in the market,” said Rohyt Belani, CEO and co-founder of PhishMe. Aaron Higbee, PhishMe’s CTO and co-founder, commented, “Enterprises want to know if they are being...

Over 50 of the world’s most renowned experts in cyber-crime and security have come together for one week only, to offer their time and expertise FOR FREE to companies who want to become more security savvy and cyber-aware – all with the aim of making UK PLC a safer place to trade online. The campaign has the tagline “we take security seriously – do you?” and sees penetration testers, ethical hackers, lawyers, professors and a...

A new global data security study from Blancco Technology Group and Kroll Ontrack found varying amounts and types of residual data on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and Gazelle.com. Based on an examination of 122 pieces of second-hand equipment, 48 percent of the hard disk drives and solid state drives contained residual data, while thousands of leftover emails, call logs, texts/SMS/IMs, photos and videos were...

Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, today announced the interoperability of its DatAdvantage and DatAlert solutions with the FireEye® Threat Analytics Platform™ (TAP™). The interoperable solutions from this new technology alliance will be showcased at the FireEye Cyber Defense Summit, taking place October 12-14 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, and via a live webinar at 2:00 PM ET on October 28. (For more details see...

Cyber criminals are attempting to break into a growing number of applications being deployed in the cloud, says the latest Cloud Security Report from SaaS provider, Alert Logic. Between January 1st and December 31st 2014, Alert Logic analysed one billion events in the IT environments of over 3,000 of its customer. The resulted in identifying more than 800,000 security incidents. These insights were gleaned from customer environments on premises, in the cloud and hosted, and...

Palo Alto Networks®, the next-generation security company, today announced the latest edition of its Application Usage and Threat Report (AUTR) completed by the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team. The report, based on data from more than 7,000 enterprises worldwide, showcases real-world trends in enterprise application usage and critical developments in how attackers are attempting to infect organisations. It also offers practical recommendations for preventing cyberattacks. Findings highlight the explosion in adoption of...

Only 18% of European businesses surveyed have fully implemented a digital testing strategy, according to a new study by market research and strategy company, Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). "Digital Testing in Europe – Strategies, Challenges & Measuring Success," looks at how organisations are ensuring that the testing and Quality Assurance (QA) function is able to support the digital agenda of the business. This is often led by departments such as sales and marketing, who circumvent...

Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of First Line of Defense® security solutions against DDoS attacks, today announced the findings of its Trends and Analysis Report for the first half of 2015. Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbing solutions to cause network disruptions and, in some cases, distract victims while other malware...

Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced the results of “CTIA Super Mobility – Understanding Mobility and Risk,” a survey of mobile users who attended the CTIA Super Mobility 2015 conference, focused on public network access patterns. The research reveals that the majority of mobile users access corporate assets through public networks, despite being aware of their security risk. “There are multiple risks associated with connecting to public networks,...