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Global technology company Nuix has released the findings from its third annual survey of corporate information security practitioners who almost universally agreed that human behaviour was their largest security threat. While businesses were investing to develop broad and mature cybersecurity capabilities, many survey respondents were uncertain about the most effective technologies and capabilities to focus on. “Cybersecurity no longer has an air of mystery about it for executives and directors but human behavior and technological...

ITOne, in partnership with Docler Holding is proud to announce the second edition of Game of Code at the Geesseknappchen Forum in Luxembourg on March 11th and 12th 2017. For the 1st edition, the Hackathon gathered more than 200 visitors and 35 teams of developers and designers who participated in the two challenges designed by Docler Holding and Digital Lëtzebuerg. The participants and speakers came from all over Europe. The game is simple: 24hrs of...

Groupon users have reported that fraudsters gained illegal access to their accounts and placed unauthorised purchases in their names. The hackers allegedly used login details from other data breaches to hack into individual customers' Groupon accounts. Here is what the industry makes of the data breach: Rob Sobers, director at Varonis: "Today’s news is the result of billions of compromised user accounts from other breaches now being used to gain legitimate access to Groupon user...

Veracode, a leader in securing the world’s software, today announced compelling insight from a survey of global developers and development managers on the current state of software security. The report underscores the importance of developer-led security in the age of DevOps, and showed that businesses are recognising the importance of securing applications. Despite showing moves toward earlier and more frequent security testing throughout the development process, the survey results also indicated there are still hurdles...

Yesterday, security research company IOActive released research detailing several cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in Panasonic Avionics In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems used by a number of major airlines including United, Virgin, American Airlines, Emirates, AirFrance, Singapore, and Qatar, among others. The vulnerabilities in these systems could allow hackers to ‘hijack’ passengers’ in-flight displays and, in some instances, potentially access their credit card information. These vulnerabilities could also potentially act as an entry point to the wider network, depending...

Research by financial technology company Intelligent Environments has found that over a third (34 per cent) of people feel they have too many passwords to remember, so write them down More than a fifth (21 per cent) have shared their PINs with colleagues, friends or family members to withdraw money on their behalf More than one in ten (14 per cent) haven’t altered how often they change their PINs, despite them being victims of fraud...

Bitdefender, the innovative security software solutions provider, joined the No More Ransom initiative supported by Europol contributing to the global fight against ransomware - the fastest-growing cyber threat to date. Free decryption tools provided by Bitdefender are now available, offering ransomware victims the possibility to decrypt their files without having to pay criminals to do so. The decryption tools developed by Bitdefender have been added to nomoreransom.org, an online portal available in English, Dutch, French,...

Security researchers at WatchGuard Technologies warn of ransomworms, IoT botnet zombies, civilian cyber cold war casualties and the use of AI in attacks in the next 12 months.  2017 will see the first ever Ransomworm, causing Ransomware to spread. Cybercriminals will take ransomware to the next level in 2017 by introducing the kind of auto-propagating characteristics traditionally found in network worms like CodeRed and Conficker. This will result in a breed of ransomware designed to...

An increase in the number of reported cyber-attacks over the last year indicates that businesses still need to do a lot more to minimise their security risk. With the prospect of a large Global Data Protection Regulation fine looming for companies that fail to take the latest threats seriously, discover the top ten ways to minimise your organisation’s cyber security posture over the year ahead.     Source: Redscan

Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity, announced today that Amit Yoran will become the company’s chairman and CEO effective Jan. 3, 2017. “Tenable is one of the most innovative companies in security, and is leading the evolution of vulnerability management into a next-generation technology that addresses some of the most important and fundamental security challenges of today,” said Yoran. “Over the course of my career, I've met with thousands of IT and...