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Two UK cybersecurity companies Searchlight Security, the provider of specialist deep and dark web monitoring products, and Omniscope, the digital threat intelligence and investigations business, have announced a partnership that brings next-level threat intelligence to enterprise customers and law enforcement agencies alike. The solution combines Omniscope’s Smarti3 Intelligence platform for open-source threat intelligence of the web, including deep web social media, with Searchlight Security’s DarkIQ and Cerberus products for monitoring and investigating the deep and...

Next week, UK Research and Innovation's Digital Security by Design (DSbD) challenge's Four Nations Roadshow begins. The roadshow will journey across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and will feature talks from multiple speakers highlighting the developments in computing across the decades, the state of computing in the present day, and how we can move towards a safer, more secure future. DSbD is an initiative supported by the UK government to transform digital technology and create...

BlackBerry Limited  has released the 2022 BlackBerry Annual Threat Report, highlighting a cybercriminal underground which it says has been optimised to better target local small businesses. Small businesses will continue to be an epicentre for cybercriminal focus as SMBs facing upward of 11 cyberthreats per device per day, which only stands to accelerate as cybercriminals increasingly adopt collaborative mindsets.   The report also uncovered cyber breadcrumbs from some of last year’s most notorious ransomware attacks,...

One Identity, the provider of unified identity security, has announced the availability of One Identity Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), enabling businesses to support governance and privileged access for cloud infrastructure objects. The company said this innovation along with other new releases such as its Application Governance module and a new connector to Microsoft Teams, all underpin One Identity’s cloud-first Unified Identity Security Platform, and will allow customers to take yet another step forward in...

TSB has released data ahead of Valentine's day showing how dating sites are "riddled with scammers". Unfortunately, it has shown that women were targeted in two-thirds of the cases it analysed and the average age of those scammed was 47 years old. The average amount of money swindled from women was £6,300 compared with men at £4,600.   Robert Rendell, VP of payment solutions at Feedzai, said of romance scams: "These scams are about coercion...

DomainTools has announced the availability of DomainTools Iris Detect, an innovative new product designed to discover and monitor domain names spoofing brands, trademarks, or other domains with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. Building on the world’s largest databases of domain registration and Domain Name System (DNS) data developed by DomainTools and Farsight Security, the discovery engine underpinning Iris Detect identifies some 350,000 new domains every day—far more than any other technology available. In fact, in a 12-hour period earlier...

In December 2021, Gartner® reviewed its earlier predictions about API attacks, commenting, "On Target: 2017 Prediction — By 2022, API abuses will be the most-frequent attack vector resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications…. As 2022 approaches, this prediction could arguably be counted as "missed" — but only because we underestimated the steep rise in attacks on APIs.   Now, Salt Security, the API security company, has announced it has received $140 million in Series...

Obrela Security Industries, a leading provider of security analytics and cyber risk management services, has announced the acquisition of Encode, a Security Analytics and Response Orchestration provider.  The move establishes Obrela as one of the largest cybersecurity and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) players in the EMEA. George Patsis, CEO of Obrela said, “Our acquisition of Encode is an important milestone for Obrela and we are excited about the opportunities it brings to our customers,...

Salt Security, the API security company, has announced the global expansion of its Salt Security Essential Partner Program, with the company noting that it will be instrumental in ensuring customers around the world can protect the APIs fueling their digital transformations, application modernisations, cloud migrations, and other digital initiatives. The company state that it has always been 100% channel-focused – therefore making this programme more broadly available will expand the network of distributors, channel partners,...

Cato Networks yesterday announced the release of Cato CASB, the first Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) to help companies with visibility and managing cloud application data risk. This new offering “addresses a critical visibility and control gap created by cloud migration but must be converged into a broad SASE platform to be truly effective across the business,” said Shlomo Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. Cato’s CASB integrates into the company’s SPACE engine, allowing...