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Today sees the launch of Yoti, the new free smartphone app which aims to change the way we prove our identity. It lets you instantly prove your age and who you are, online and in person with a digital identity that has been verified by a government-issued ID document – either a passport or UK driving licence. Over 40,000 people in the UK have pre-registered to download the free app, which is available now for...

Lastline Inc., the leader in advanced malware protection, announced its latest enhancements to Lastline Enterprise for Global 5000 companies. The Spring 2017 Release adds capabilities to detect and eliminate browser based-attacks, speed incident investigation for security professionals, and provide early warning of unusual or suspicious network activity. “We worked very closely with our largest global customers and partners to identify enhancements that ensure our solution addresses attack vectors that are causing the most pain,” said...

Cyber security company Positive Technologies has today launched PT VIP Protect, a technology designed to keep sensitive targets safe from the current and evolving threats from mobile phone hacking.  Key business executives, celebrities, and other high-profile individuals operating in sensitive situations all connect to mobile phone networks, which often have fundamental flaws in underlying signalling protocols. These flaws and vulnerabilities can be exploited to eavesdrop on phone conversations, intercept text messages, track location and commit...

Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), a leading provider of software solutions that protect data from insider threats and cyberattacks, today announced the upcoming availability for the release candidate of version 6.3.150 of its software platform that includes updates to the web-based DatAlert dashboard and enhancements to user behavior analysis (UBA) based threat detection technology. The updates prioritise suspicious activities, accelerate investigations and highlight dangerous data vulnerabilities so that an organisation can quickly view, triage, inspect and mitigate threats and...

The security and privacy advice website, Comparitech.com, is warning businesses that use programmatic advertising platforms to be wary of their ads ending up on fake news or hate speech websites.  In a stand to crack down on the spread of fake news, Comparitech.com is urging brands to blacklist known fake news and hate speech websites from their ad platforms, with a guide on how to blacklist certain websites from featuring their ads. “Fake news websites...

SonicWall, the trusted security partner protecting more than a million business networks worldwide, today announced findings from its Annual Threat Report, which highlights the most notable advancements made by security professionals and cyber criminals in 2016. The report was compiled from data collected throughout 2016 by the SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) Threat Network with daily feeds from more than 1 million security sensors in nearly 200 countries and territories. According to the 2017...

By 2021, the prevalence of equity analysts valuing organisations' information portfolios in valuing businesses themselves will spark formal internal information valuation and auditing practices, according to Gartner, Inc. In a report containing a series of predictions about the rising importance of data and analytics, Gartner analysts said that although information arguably meets the formal criteria of a business asset, present-day accounting practices disallow organisations from capitalising it. That is, the value of an organisation's information...

Researchers from Proofpoint have today issued their Quarterly Threat Summary from Q4 2016, which analyses threats trends across email, mobile and social media. The report is available here and also takes a look back across the whole of 2016 and discusses significant changes in the threat landscape. The key findings include: Social media phishing attacks increased 500% from beginning of 2016 to end of 2016. This includes angler phishing where attackers intercept customer support channels...

AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ (USM™) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced the availability of USM Anywhere, the first all-in-one Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) security monitoring platform designed to centralize threat detection, incident response, and compliance management of cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments from a single cloud-based console. Tweet This: A new cloud SaaS solution! @alienvault #USMAnywhere delivers unified #security monitoring across IT ecosystems: http://ow.ly/8pgU308D56A Built natively in the cloud to monitor hybrid cloud...

Despite over half (56%) of UK organisations being affected by fraud, confidence levels in fraud prevention techniques is remarkably high, reveals research from Callcredit Information Group. The Fraud & Risk report of 201 Fraud Prevention Managers and Directors, finds that a majority of businesses (75%) believe they are one step ahead of fraudsters, with a mere 13% feeling they are lagging behind them. Faced with a myriad of internal and external cyber security challenges, it...