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New research from ESET has revealed that parents are feeling increasingly concerned about the inappropriate content their children are seeing on the internet, with 40 percent admitting they worried about kids visiting terrorist sites and 60 percent worried about pornography sites and 47 percent worried about their children visiting gambling sites. The survey studied the attitudes of 441 UK parents and also revealed 79 percent of parents would choose to block their child from using social...

Moving in the herd mentality of information security professionals is positive, but can lead to a lack of understanding of risks. Speaking at 44CON Cyber Security in London, Canon director of information security Quentyn Taylor said that in information security some people are leading, some know where they are going and others break off from the circle around them. He said: “We move together for protection as no one wants to be on the edge,...

Are users too affected by fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) and is there too much stick and not enough carrot? Speaking at 44CON Cyber Security in London, psychologist and sociologist Dr Jessica Barker asked the audience if we are using fear too much and being too negative when it comes to awareness? She claimed that part of society is impacted by fear and not using the internet as a result, while others are not so...

Despite cyber-security having sky-rocketed to the top of boardroom discussion agendas, an average of 35 per cent of all cyber-attacks still go undetected. Recent IDC research, sponsored by SAS, shows that organisations need to shift from reactive to proactive strategies that seek to understand a threat before an attacker can cause damage. To do this, they require a new set of security solutions to match the increasing number and sophistication of attacks. SAS Cyber-security, which...

Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer and leader in transforming endpoint security using micro-virtualization, has announced the results of its “State of Security Report Card,” a survey of more than 100 information security professionals at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The survey results reveal that legacy solutions such as firewalls and antivirus are failing to prevent attacks and address the priorities set by their CISOs. “The results of this survey serve as yet another proof point in...

The latest innovation from NetClean helps digital investigators ‘see’ the relationships between digital evidence hidden inside photo and video files. NetClean today launches the new version of Analyze DI 15.1, which incorporates Analyze Relations, an industry first capability for visual navigation that actively suggests relationships between millions of data points pertaining to digital media. The software identifies relationships by comparing multiple types of data collected from this type of digital media – including what camera was...

Fifty-two per cent of IT directors’ spend with outsourcing suppliers is focused on reducing the cost of IT, rather than achieving business benefits, according to research from technology company MooD International. This is despite the fact that only 21 per cent of IT directors and their teams cite cost reduction as the area that the outsourcing partner’s use is the most critical. Revenue generation and growth are named as the most important initiatives in the...

Blackphone, the Smartphone from encryption and privacy firm Silent Circle is on show at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London as part of their new exhibition ‘All Of This Belongs To You’. The ‘All of This Belongs to You’ exhibition includes three specially curated displays, among which is ‘Ways to be Secret’, which examines “the contradiction between our concern for online privacy and our obsession with sharing via social media". The Blackphone is featured...

Make your awareness campaign engaging, at the level of the person you are targeting and make it last long enough to succeed. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, CISO Thom Langford said that awareness campaigns need to be about more than just putting up some posters as that will not stop people from doing the wrong things. He said: “It is a habit to get through, so why are looking at this in a...

Catastrophic issues in security can occur, but there are ways to recover. Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, Bruce Schneier, CTO of Resilient Systems, highlighted the Sony Pictures attack as being an interesting case as it brings catastrophic risk uses to the fore, and not catastrophic as in a life ending sense, but in company terms. He highlighted seven ways in which a catastrophic incident could be dealt with. Firstly he recommended keeping it...