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Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless. Aurora Serverless is a new deployment option for Amazon Aurora that automatically starts, scales, and shuts down database capacity with per-second billing for applications with less predictable usage patterns. Amazon Aurora Serverless offers database capacity without the need to provision, scale, and manage any servers. Aurora Serverless brings the power of the MySQL-compatible database built for the...

Positive Technologies researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov today outlined at Black Hat a number of flaws they have discovered in mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices, which can allow fraudulent merchants to interfere with payments, changing the amount charged and forcing customers to use insecure payment methods, such as magstripe. The vulnerabilities have been discovered in a number of market-leading mPOS devices popular in both the U.S. and Europe—Square, SumUp, iZettle, and PayPal.   The use...

Mobile banking Trojans hit the list of cyber-headaches in Q2 2018. The number of installation packages for mobile banking – modifications which help attackers avoid detection by security solutions and to expand their arsenal – peaked at over 61,000. This represents a historic high; more than a three-fold growth when compared with Q1 2018, and over double the installations than in Q1 2017. This is just one of the main findings from Kaspersky Lab’s Q2...

For immediate release – Organisations and critical infrastructure will likely experience a greater number of, and more-destructive cyberattacks, including physical damage perpetrated by highly funded rogue nation states and cybercriminals looking to disrupt business operations, make money or spy on targets, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Specifically, the report predicts an escalation of Iran-based cyber-threat activity; a broadening attack of global supply chains; increased targeting of critical infrastructure; as well as...

Only one in every fifty apps is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) according to a study carried out by Crownpeak, a global leader in digital governance management. In a study of the top 50 Android apps and top 50 Apple apps conducted by Crownpeak in July 1018, 98% did not comply with GDPR. The study found that 79% of the apps had no consent notice at all, and of the 21% that did...

Data is driving massive innovation and growth in today’s economy, forcing data privacy and security into its rightful place in the spotlight. But data privacy is hard, with only the best leaders capable of navigating its treacherous waters. After Cambridge Analytica and the rollout of GDPR, many of the biggest companies are now scrambling to fill the role of Data Protection Officer (DPO). Whereas there are plenty of people who are versed in the tenets...

The UK consumer response to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is shifting. SAS research, GDPR: The right to remain private, reveals that more people are activating their new personal data rights, and faster, than expected. At the same time, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data scandal has made the majority of consumers either activate their rights, or at least reassess the information they share and how organisations use it.   In 2017, SAS surveyed UK consumers for their...

Although the mainframe has historically been one of the most secure platforms available to businesses, changes in the technology landscape and shortages in legacy skills have opened the door to new risks. This is according to software innovator TmaxSoft, who argues that this is a blind spot for many mainframe-dependent businesses who have a false sense of security about their IT infrastructure. Commenting on the potential security risks, Carl Davies, CEO of TmaxSoft UK, said:...

Local students descended on the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on Saturday 4th August and Sunday 5th August as part of the final stages of the Government-backed flagship cyber security training programme, Cyber Discovery. To help introduce cyber security as a profession to more young people, last November the UK Government launched its landmark cyber security training programme aimed at 14-18-year-olds – ‘Cyber Discovery’. From thousands of participants overall, just 170 of the top performing...

Despite being fully aware of security risks following the introduction of high-profile legislation like GDPR, European workers have the worst cybersecurity discipline in the world and displaying signs of ‘security fatigue’, according to a study by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. Conducted to understand how the digital workplace is impacting businesses, the study of 2,650 European employees some key security based trends emerged: Cybersecurity is an afterthought: Over half (55%) of European employees are...