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Sungard Availability Services ® (Sungard AS), a leading provider of information availability through managed IT, cloud and recovery services, today reveals that the skills shortage is having a detrimental impact on UK businesses and could pose serious risks in the years ahead. Both IT Decision Makers (31%), and Line of Business Decision Makers (41%) have labelled it as their biggest issue impacting digital initiatives, with seven in ten employees claiming they’re not getting the training...

43% of IT executives at European financial institutions reveal that fears of a cyber-attack keep them awake at night – two months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, according to figures published by financial services IT consultancy and service provider Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services – a division of Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT). The survey of over 200 IT executives working in capital markets, wealth management and corporate banking reveals that although 89% agree...

Nearly 4 in 5 companies (79%) were hit by a breach in the last year, according to new research from Balabit. The report, called the Known Unknowns of Cyber Security, also revealed that 7 out of 10 (68%) businesses expect to be impacted by further breaches this year with more than a quarter anticipating this happening within the next 6 months. The Unknown Network Survey, undertaken in the UK, France, Germany and the US, reveals...

Just ahead of British Science Week and International Women’s Day, nearly 200 school girls at Arts Media School Islington in London spent an afternoon meeting women STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) professionals and then watched ‘Hidden Figures’, the film about women of colour working at NASA. The event, partly funded by public donations and partly by Accenture, involved 11 women, mainly women of colour, from across a variety of STEM fields including user interface...

UK Police forces have spent a total of £1,320,341 on cybercrime training courses in the last three years, according to a new report from the Parliament Street think tank. The new Policing and Cybercrime policy paper, launched this morning, reveals that a total of 39,483 police staff and officers have undergone training across the UK. North Wales Police topped the list with £375,488 on cybercrime training for officers and staff between 2015 and 2017. This included...

Research from information security company, Clearswift, has shown that links within emails are perceived as posing the biggest cyber threat to UK businesses, with 59% of business decision makers highlighting this as a chief concern for their business, far more than any other threat. The research surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia. When asked what they see as the biggest threat to their organisation, business...

Researchers from Imperva have discovered a new technique where attackers are disguising malicious code in a photo of Scarlett Johansson and targeting PostgreSQL servers to illegally mine Monero cryptocurrency.   “Hackers have upped their game and are now using what appear to be benign image files, such as the one we found of Scarlett Johansson, to deliver malicious code. In this case, the code infected a Postgre database, and then conscripted its server into a Monero...

Recently cryptojacking attacks have been spreading like wildfire and Imperva has witnessed that these attacks hold roughly 90% of all remote code execution attacks in web applications. However, this week a new generation of cryptojacking attacks was discovered which is aimed at both database servers and application servers.   Researchers from Imperva discovered the extremely complex cryptojacking attack dubbed RedisWannaMine, which is powered by Redis and NSA exploits and aimed at both database servers and application servers.  ...

Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ: RPD), a leading provider of analytics solutions for security and IT operations, today announced it has been recognised by Forrester Research, Inc. as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018 report. Among the vendors included in the report, Rapid7 received the highest scores in both the ‘Strategy’ and ‘Current Offering’ categories. “Rapid7 has already implemented what VRM will look like in the future,” wrote Forrester report author Josh...

Last week, bright sparks from across the UK and Overseas Territories competed in the National Final of CyberCenturion, a cyber defence and STEM skills competition, led by global security company Northrop Grumman in partnership with government-backed Cyber Security Challenge UK and supported by the US Air Force Association. The ten finalist teams will compete in a battle against the clock, working as cyber security consultants defending against fictional live attacks, all with the hope of...