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Many, if not most, of the data breaches throughout 2016 could have been avoided with the correct people, process, technology and most importantly culture in place. This is the opinion of Phil Bindley, CTO of Cloud Services Provider (CSP) The Bunker, who argues that the biggest security threat for organisations in 2017 will be a complacency towards good security hygiene.  According to the 2016 Data Protection and Breach Readiness Guide, 93 per cent of breaches...

New research* released today has revealed that CEOs are over confident when it comes to their cybersecurity approach, and are potentially leaving themselves at risk of attack due to outdated and unrealistic strategies. RedSeal, the cybersecurity analytics company, today released the results of a global CEO study. The results – based on the insights of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of 200 global companies- have demonstrated what RedSeal is calling “CEO Cyber-Naivety”, where more than 80...

Call in the Colonel! Popular fast food chain KFC has warned Colonel's Club loyalty scheme members in the UK that its website has been targeted and multiple accounts may have been compromised. About 1.2 million members of the Colonel's Club, which allows customers to collect Chicken Stamps and "earn their way to free food rewards," recently received an email about the breach. "Our monitoring systems have found a small number of Colonel's Club accounts may...

UK CEOs are concerned that EU privacy rules will impact their ability to do effective business if UK privacy rules are not aligned once Brexit takes place, according to research by KPMG. In a survey of 100 UK CEOs, KPMG found that nearly 60 percent believe their ability to do business will be hindered once Brexit takes place if UK privacy rules are not aligned to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR...

UK organisations are paralysed by the choice of security technologies available to them, but are failing to maintain the basic fundamentals. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director at Databarracks. Groucutt has significant concerns about the vulnerability of UK organisations against a growing cyber threat landscape: “Cyber threats are now the biggest cause of major recovery we’re seeing amongst UK organisations, and this trend will continue in 2017. As the sophistication of attacks continues...

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) and Loryka today revealed the findings of a report examining the use of connected devices as cyber weapons by hackers. The report, entitled ‘DDoS’s Newest Minions: IoT Devices,’ was created by F5 Labs using data from F5 partner Loryka and shows that hackers are increasingly searching for products with network connectivity to manipulate for their own means. With one in three Brits set to give gifts leveraging the Internet of Things...

Malicious PowerShell scripts are on the rise, as attackers are using the framework’s flexibility to download their payloads, traverse through a compromised network, and carry out reconnaissance. Symantec analyzed PowerShell malware samples to find out how much of a danger they posed. Of all of the PowerShell scripts analyzed through the BlueCoat Malware Analysis sandbox, 95.4 percent were malicious. This shows that externally sourced PowerShell scripts are a major threat to enterprises. PowerShell – a...

Organisations spend an average of 5.6 per cent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to the most recent IT Key Metrics Data from Gartner, Inc. However, IT security spending ranges from approximately 1 per cent to 13 per cent of the IT budget and is potentially a misleading indicator of programme success. "Clients want to know if what they are spending on information security is equivalent to others in...

New research from Loudhouse, commissioned by 4D, the cloud, connectivity and colocation provider, reveals that 87% of IT decision makers working in UK businesses have not considered data location and sovereignty in a post Brexit world. With no clear path to leave the EU or set timings of when Article 50 will be evoked, especially since the High Court ruling which may or may not be overturned, 50% of businesses are consciously delaying IT decisions...

Members from Devon and Cornwall Police, Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez and the south west’s business community came together at an event at the Exeter Science Park on Tuesday 6th December, as the region takes a major step forward in the fight against cyber-crime. Organised by the South West Cyber Security Cluster (SWCSC) alongside Devon and Cornwall Police, the event saw a range of business people and representatives gather together to discuss prevention techniques...