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Yesterday, the winners of 11th coveted Global Infosec Awards were announced at the RSA conference in San Francisco. The awards are run by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), who spent six months searching for over 4,300 companies who manage, create and offer the most respected information security products and services. Of these, CDM named over 400 as winners. The winners of the award were honoured because of their innovations and focus on attempting to stop tomorrow's...

A year ago, Dragos Inc. released the first cybersecurity resource designed to provide industrial asset owners and operators with free OT-specific cybersecurity resources. Dragos OT-CERT (Operational Technology – Cyber Emergence Readiness Team), was designed specifically to help teams within small and mid-sized organisations to help them build their OT cybersecurity programmes, improve their security postures, and reduce OT risk. The product was launched at the 2022 RSA Conference and has grown to include over 900...

As important as it is, cybersecurity awareness training might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world, but when it involves plots to rival your favourite network crime dramas, expertly crafted cinematography, and characters to root for? Naturally, it all feels a little bit different.   Of course, we’re talking about the long-awaited return of KnowBe4’s network-quality video series The Inside Man. Back for its fifth season, the show, created and produced by Twist...

New research released by Specops Software outlines the most common Fortune 500 company names that show up in compromised password data. The Specops research team analysed an 800 million password subset of the larger Breached Password Protection database to obtain these results. Among the top ten, popular household names like Coca-Cola (16,710 appearances), Starbucks (3,800 appearances) and McDonald’s (2,270 times) appear. The most common Fortune 500 company to have been found among passwords in the subset...

Apparently, the team at Ferrari may not have been up to speed with the latest ways to ensure your security is top priority. It was announced on Monday via a statement uploaded to their website that Ferrari was “recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details”. Ferrari then went on to say that it “will not be held to ransom” and that the best course of action...

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...

Mobile phishing is an issue plaguing the masses and a growing concern for enterprises, particularly as  2022 had the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, according to Lookout's Global State of Mobile Phishing report. On average, more than 30% of personal and enterprise users exposed to these attacks every quarter. In the U.K., there was a 35% increase in the average number of mobile devices exposed to at least one malicious phishing attack...

Armis, the asset visibility and security provider, announced today that it has surpassed the 100m USD mark in annual recurring revenue (ARR) growing from 1m USD to 100m USD in less than 5 years. This, it says, makes the company one of the fastest-growing centaurs in the SaaS and cloud technology space and the fastest-growing cyber start-up for asset visibility, intelligence and security.    “Making centaur status so quickly is testament to the business use...

After closely monitoring the most active ransomware groups in 2022, the KrakenLabs team at Outpost24 are sharing their latest report that delves deep into the significant ransomware trends, threat groups, victim profiles, and motives behind these attacks from the past year. In total, the researchers identified 2,363 disclosed victims by various ransomware groups on Data Leak Sites (DLS) in 2022. Key facts from the report include: Most active ransomware groups: Existing entities like LockBit, BlackCat, Hive, and...

The partnership between Ivanti and Lookout, Inc is to be extended in a new announcement made today which will see Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security continue to be part of the Ivanti Neurons automation platform. The combined solution, which also includes Ivanti Go and Ivanti Neurons for Modern Device Management, allows Ivanti customers to deploy a mobile strategy to secure the hybrid workforce while reducing overall risk to the organisation. This cloud-based solution is now available as...