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Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, has released a whitepaper with a timeline of the most notorious cyber-security attacks around the world on critical infrastructure, and recommendations on how to protect these infrastructures from attacks on the backbone of today’s economies. Malware and targeted attacks Today’s increasing trend towards interconnecting all types of infrastructure also increases potential points of entry for attacks on the services that have become essential for today’s societies. This is apparent with the...

 Agari, a leading cybersecurity company, today released the results of a commissioned survey, Email Security: Social Engineering Report, conducted by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) on behalf of Agari, which examined the impact of social engineering on organizations across a range of industrial sectors in the U.S. The results revealed that 60 percent of surveyed security leaders say their organizations were or may have been victim of at least one targeted social engineering attack in...

Leading commercial insurer RSA has today released a report, Future Impacts, which assesses the effects of economic events such as Brexit on business growth, as well as the risks that businesses face and how they are managing those risks. The research found that Brexit is not perceived as a risk by 78% of businesses in IT and computing, with 35% stating that leaving the EU will have no impact at all, and 43% saying it...

Bitdefender experts predict a marked rise in IoT attacks against individuals and companies alike, continuing trouble with encrypting ransomware, IoT botnets, adware and the revival of darknet markets for illegal goods and services. Ransomware - more prevalent than ever. Building on the massive financial milestones in 2016, ransomware operations will likely dedicate more resources to improving automated targeting in 2017. This feature will help them discriminate between home users and corporations, and trying to extort...

Jason Hart, CTO Data Protection, Gemalto, is today predicting that data integrity breaches are set to send shockwaves throughout the world in 2017, with at least one ‘almighty’ breach disclosure of this type expected next year. Data integrity is a promise or assurance that information can be accessed or modified only by authorised users. Data integrity attacks compromise that promise, with the aim of gaining unauthorised access to modify data for a number of ulterior...

Visa today announced shoppers in the UK spent more than £2Bn on Visa cards on the day that has come to signify the kick-off of the Christmas retail season, with nearly half of that spend occurring online.  This total is up 13% compared to Black Friday 2015.  Whether online or in-store, buying gifts or enjoying Christmas revelry, shoppers are foregoing cash, opting for the speed and convenience of contactless cards and new payment methods. UPTAKE...

Graduates are changing jobs more often than previous generations. It is estimated that by the time today’s millennials reach the age of 32, they will have changed jobs four times. With this trend for job hopping comes an increase in the number of employment records that HR departments must retain, store securely and ultimately destroy within a legally determined timeframe. However, recent research from Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information...

Check Point announced that its security researchers have identified a new attack vector, called ImageGate, which embeds malware in image and graphic files.  The researchers have discovered the hackers’ method of executing the malicious code within these images through social media applications such as Facebook and LinkedIn. According to the research, the attackers have built a new capability to embed malicious code into an image file and successfully upload it to the social media website. ...

Rapid API, led by Andreessen Horowitz, the VC that is widely regarded as number one in the venture space is going places – it’s a start-up that has developed a marketplace through which developers can easily discover, test, and start using publicly available application programming interfaces (APIs) TechCrunch summarises this story pretty well: 'The company is interesting for numerous reasons — not least of them its founder, Iddo Gino, is an 18-year-old who was a high...

New research from RiskIQ on the state of digital risk management in large, UK organisations reveals that while 82 percent of C-Suite and senior managers admit they are concerned about the vulnerability of their web sites, mobile applications and social media accounts to cyber attack and impersonation, over half (57 percent) do not have a digital brand protection programme or team in place and over a third (34 percent) are missing a dedicated cyber threat...