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To celebrate the Lord Mayor’s City Giving Day on Tuesday 27 September, MWR InfoSecurity will run one of its hugely popular ‘Capture the Flag’ challenges. MWR's all-day event, hosted by J.P. Morgan, is designed to highlight solutions to the UK’s current cyber security skills gap and encourage engagement with this exciting industry. The event is open to everyone, including those not already working within the cyber security industry, and to help fill any gaps in...

The Corporate IT Security Risks 2016* study shows that for the majority of victims, DDoS attacks are not a one-off occurrence, with many companies subjected to multiple attacks in the last year. This just goes to show how important constant preventative measures are to ensure uninterrupted operation of online services during an attack. DDoS attacks affected one in six companies over a 12-month period. The construction industry, IT companies and telecommunication services bore the brunt...

Britons are placing their trust in banks over government agencies, according to new research from Visa to protect their biometric data such as fingerprints and iris scans. Consumers are nearly twice as likely to trust banks to store and keep their biometric information safe (60%), than they are to trust government agencies (33%). When asked who they would trust to offer biometrics authentication as a service to confirm identity, the largest percentage selected banks (85%)...

Kaspersky Lab researchers examined a number of digital kiosks and interactive terminals used in modern cities for different purposes - from paying for different services through to entertainment – and discovered that a lot of them contain vulnerabilities that can expose private user data and be used to spy or spread malicious code. Along with kiosks, specialists researched speed cameras used in cities and their supporting infrastructure. As a result, they discovered that malicious users...

Dear Editor, This latest potential VoIPtalk breach is one that should make the SIP Trunking industry sit up and take serious notice. As the benefits of VoIP become ever clearer to businesses of every size, sales of the underpinning SIP Trunking technology continue to grow, providing a great revenue stream for vendors and resellers alike. Yet, In an era of near continuous security breaches, SIP trunking is inherently vulnerable. Unsecured environments are at risk of voicemail hacking,...

According to sensitive data specialists Ground Labs, the delete key is fast becoming redundant.  Partially deleted files or those hidden in automatic backups known as ‘shadow copies’ are providing cyber criminals with easy access to valuable, often unmonitored caches of customer data. In the past twelve months, Ground Labs has identified files such as birth dates and card numbers that were ‘thought to be deleted’ in 92% of interactions with UK companies – from major...

New research commissioned by IP EXPO Europe, Europe's number one enterprise IT event, shows that although 37% of respondents think that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a main technology theme for enterprises in 2017, there are mixed signals in terms of business application, investment levels and impact on society from UK IT decision makers (ITDMs). The results reveal that a significant 32% of respondents claim they are concerned about AI replacing human jobs overall, with...

A record number of students (424,000) are leaving the nest for their first taste of university life this September; fully loaded with phones, tablets and laptops for all their studying and Netflix needs. Despite a quarter of teenagers reporting that they are “almost constantly” online, only half of students (50%) ensure they have the necessary security software installed to keep their devices and data safe according to research from Intel Security. Security breaches and viruses...

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., recently acquired by Symantec, the global leader in cyber-security, today revealed the results of an online study carried out by YouGov among 3,130 workers in various industries across Great Britain, France and Germany. The survey suggests that organisations are still being exposed to increasingly sophisticated cyber-threats posed by social engineering, where personal and work information is gathered, often via social media, and used to deliver advanced threats into networks. Despite the...

US airline Delta has revealed that the total cost of its recent five-hour IT outage (which saw over 2,000 flights either cancelled or severely delayed over a three-day period in August) was approximately $150 million USD. This figure shows how much of an impact even a small amount of IT downtime can have on an organisation and should serve as a stark warning to others, according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of disaster recovery provider...