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Over 100 world-class speakers, hackers and disruptors will come together to bridge knowledge gap between cyber and business communities during UK Cyber Security Week event on 4th and 5th April at the Business Design Centre, London arranged by ROAR B2B.   Bringing together globally renowned speakers and leading cyber experts, from Tinder Swindler star, Cecilie Fjellhoy, to Microsoft’s Chief Security Advisor, and Hacker Jason E Street to tech and organised crime investigative reporter, Geoff White,...

Password management and user authentication solutions provider Specops Software has today announced the release of its annual Weak Password Report which analysed over 800 million breached passwords and suggests that passwords continue to be a weak spot in an organisation's network. The study found 88% of passwords used in successful attacks consisted of 12 characters or less, with the most common being 8 characters (24%).  The most common base terms used in passwords were: ‘password’,...

Two years after conducting research into the state of equality in leadership roles across the cybersecurity industry, Eskenzi PR, an award-winning PR and Marketing agency specialising in cybersecurity, looked into how the dynamics have changed. The new research revealed that women only hold 21% of leadership roles, and 17% of board member positions within the world’s leading cybersecurity companies. While there has been a 5% overall increase in the number of women in management and...

Earlier this week, Adarma released a new service within its Managed Detection & Response (MDR) suite of offerings based on Microsoft XDR (Extended Detection & Response) technology. This turnkey service is aimed at customers who require coverage against the UK’s most prevalent threats and who do not have the in-house teams to manage a 24x7 Security Operations Centre. The service will enable customers to easily outsource the end-to-end process of identifying and addressing threats to a first-rate team armed with decades of expertise in...

High street stationery and book retailer WH Smith disclosed it has been the target of a cyberattack affecting employee and personnel data. It stresses that customer accounts and databases were not affected by the attack as they are stored on separate systems.   On Thursday, the company said it “immediately launched an investigation, engaged specialist support services and implemented our incident response plans, which included notifying the relevant authorities” in a public statement after this...

Salt Security, the API security company, has released new threat research from Salt Labs highlighting several critical security flaws in Booking.com. The now remediated flaws were found in the implementation of the Open Authorization (OAuth) social-login functionality utilised by Booking.com, which had the potential to affect any users logging into the site through their Facebook accounts.   The OAuth misconfigurations could have allowed for both large-scale account takeover (ATO) on customers’ accounts and server compromise,...

Cato Networks, provider of the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform, reported today its 2022 business results. Highlights include ARR exceeding $100M in record-breaking time, enterprise customers increasing by 45%, and more than 3,000 updates being made to Cato SASE Cloud in 2022. Today, 1600+ enterprises with 28,000+ sites and 520,000+ remote access ZTNA users across 150+ countries rely on Cato every day. “Despite a stiffening market, enterprises continue to need better networking and security to...

Now in its 8th edition, the Synopsys “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report launched earlier this week. The 2023 OSSRA report examines the results of more than 1,700 audits of commercial and proprietary codebases involved in merger and acquisition transactions and highlights trends in open source usage across 17 industries. The report delivers an in-depth look at the current state of open source security, compliance, licensing, and code quality risks in commercial software with the...

CyberSmart has announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising an additional £12.75 million following its initial Series A investment of over £8 million.  Oxx led the oversubscribed round, with participation from British Patient Capital, Legal & General Capital and Solano Partners, alongside IQ Capital, which backed the company since its seed stage, and other returning investors: Eos Venture Partners, Winton Ventures and Seedcamp. This financial backing will facilitate CyberSmart’s accelerated product development, strengthen channel partnerships, as well as propel the...

Salt Security has increased signed partners and deal registrations as global enterprises accelerate adoption of dedicated API security to protect their critical digital innovation initiatives. The API security company announced it has experienced strong worldwide channel growth, expanded coverage globally and launched the Essential Partner Certification Program, further enhancing the support and training offered to its global partners and allowing them to provide a better customer experience. At the same time, Salt reported that it...