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Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the lack of resources available within smaller companies, and are now between 5 and 20 times more likely to be breached than large enterprises, according to new insights from Terbium Labs. This new data comes just over six months after Britain’s government-backed National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a guide to small business online security, with the aim of better protecting themselves against online attacks.   Launched on 11 October...

The WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled the NHS and infected more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries has not translated into action at many organisations. According to a Tanium survey of 500 frontline IT security workers in the U.K, one third (36%) of respondents admitted there was panic immediately after the WannaCry attack, but nothing has changed since.   The findings show that two fifths (40%) admit their organisation is more exposed than they were...

Immersive Labs has partnered with CyberFirst and the Smallpeice Trust this summer to create a series of tailor-made skill pathways that will precede planned summer programmes across the UK as part of the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) ongoing set of initiatives to get young people interested in computer science. Today, Immersive Labs has opened up part of its innovative platform for identifying  budding cyberists to become an essential part of the application process for...

There is an urgent need to find the people that will protect and safeguard businesses, people and their data. In response, a number of banks and financial institutions are investing in their cyber security, particularly personnel. Today, Cyber Security Challenge UK, a non-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring and enabling people to seek careers in the cyber security industry has partnered with the prestigious Bank of England for the launch of its first Face-to-Face cyber security...

New research by data security company, Clearswift, has shown that 45% of employees have mistakenly shared emails containing key data with unintended recipients, including personal information (15%), bank details (9%), attachments (13%) and other confidential text (8%). The research, which surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia, also found that employees regularly receive these unintentional emails, as well as being guilty of sending them, highlighting an...

News broke this week that criminals are attempting to trick Airbnb users into handing over passwords and credit card details by taking advantage of the flood of emails being sent out ahead of the new European General Data Protection Regulation. The email included the following message: "This update is mandatory because of the new changes in the EU Digital privacy legislation that acts upon United States-based companies, like Airbnb in order to protect European citizens and companies,"...

We live in a world where software is everywhere. It underlies almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives across all industries from property management software to helping run the everyday tasks of businesses. Cloud connectivity, omnipresent networks and connected devices have transformed how we do mundane tasks. What used to take weeks and days, now takes minutes and seconds. As the pace of change has accelerated, it’s placed businesses under immense pressure. The...

Ethical hacking is a new way of looking at hacking which is used to finding weak spots in the program or system for the purpose of testing and fixing those weak points. It is normally performed by skilled developers or by a system knowledgeable person. Few people think that ethical hacking is illegal. Over the past few years, with the evolution and advancement in technology, software development has gone to next level. The IT sector...

German vendor Hirschmann, a Belden company, has published information about fixes for five vulnerabilities in network switches used in energy, chemical manufacturing, transportation, and other industries. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Positive Technologies experts Ilya Karpov, Evgeny Druzhinin, Mikhail Tsvetkov, and Damir Zaynullin. The described issues affect Hirschmann (Belden) RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic switches. A session fixation vulnerability in the switch web interface enables an attacker to hijack a...

By Flashpoint Analysts Vitali Kremez, Paul Burbage, & Amina Bashir A crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder has recently been gaining popularity among members of a top-tier Russian hacking forum. Despite being relatively new and unsophisticated, the kit has a clear appeal for cybercriminals: it’s cheap, fast, and can defeat basic static antivirus detection. First offered for sale in late February for the relatively low price of $500 USD per month, the Rubella Macro...