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Let’s talk about women – and money. Today (22nd November 2023) marks the day that women effectively stop being paid for the year. Stop being paid against their male counterparts for the same work that they do – for the rest of the year. Yes, the rest of the year, for the same roles. Happy Equal Pay Day, I guess? What’s worse is that the tech industry's gender pay gap is 16% higher than the...

Specops Software, an Outpost24 company, have released new research about bcrypt-passwords – and how easy (or not) they are to crack. This research follows previously released data on how long it takes attackers to brute force MD5 hashed user passwords with the help of newer hardware. bcrypt is becoming an increasingly popular way to secure passwords, as it uses a strong hashing algorithm. Additionally, to increase security, bcrypt also adds a random piece of data to...

Today, threat intelligence powered cybersecurity pros Centripetal have  launched their partner program to protect organisations around the world by operationalising threat intelligence to safeguard them from every known cyberthreat.  The Centripetal Global Partner Program gives organisations the opportunity to implement a stronger approach to cybersecurity, putting operationalised threat intelligence at the forefront, moving from a reactive to proactive defence, and helping security teams be more efficient and effective. Critical results and findings can be identified...

The fourth annual State of Data Security Report by Immuta highlights the current state of data security amid organisations’ rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI tools. The report found that most executives (88%) say that their employees are using AI, but 50% say their organisation struggles to keep pace with its evolution. The 2024 State of Data Security Report, commissioned by Immuta and conducted by UserEvidence, surveyed 700 data platform and security practitioners at global cloud-based...

Cybersecurity training company CAPSLOCK and BAE Systems, a global leader in defence, aerospace and security solutions, have launched a new partnership, designed to provide learners with the knowledge and hands-on experience they need to join the UK’s growing cybersecurity sector. This move is particularly significant given that the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) reported that almost half (49%) of all cyber firms have faced problems as a result of the...

Netskope have unveiled their Next Gen SASE Branch, a major step forward in infrastructure that uses Netskope’s award-winning Borderless SD-WAN to transform how organisations manage their most critical networking and security functions and optimise enterprise branches everywhere. In today's digital age, IT teams seek cloud-centric infrastructure solutions that elegantly converge network and security capabilities, reduce legacy technology maintenance, and support the performance demands of hybrid work environments. SASE has emerged as a leading framework already...

On November 8th, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) was impacted by a ransomware attack that disrupted a subset of their Financial Services (FS) systems. ICBC is China’s largest bank with the Financial Services unit based in New York City. ICBC FS has many operations but has a significant hand in the U.S. Treasury market.   As the Financial Times first reported, the ransomware attack against ICBC FS came in the form of LockBit...

Outpost24 has made significant updates to its offering with the release of Threat Explorer, an advanced vulnerability intelligence and custom alerting tool for continuous threat monitoring. The new module, available as a part of the Threat Compass threat intelligence solution, provides a timely source of vulnerability intelligence, enabling organizations to be alerted on the latest vulnerability exploits and prioritize remediation. Key features in Outpost24 Threat Explorer With Threat Explorer, organizations can see and manage where...

Electric Ireland, an Irish utility company, released an announcement confirming that 8,000 customer accounts containing personal and financial information may have been compromised.  Though the exact details of the breach are unknown, the statement explained that “Electric Ireland is aware that an employee of a company working on our behalf may have inappropriately accessed a small portion of our 1.1 million residential customer accounts.”  This, the statement said, has resulted in the potential misuse of...

Salt Security, the API security company, has been named the winner of the API Security category in the 2023 CISO Choice Awards. Judged by a panel of distinguished CISOs at large organisations across the world, the CISO Choice Awards honour security vendors who provide top-tier differentiated security solutions, valuable to CISOs and their enterprises. Salt, utilising powerful cloud-scale big data and time-tested artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, protects APIs across their full lifecycle and delivers the...