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Figures from the Robert Walters UK Jobs Index have revealed that vacancies for IT professionals were up 15% in July compared to June. While Britain’s decision to leave the EU has created a climate of economic uncertainty, demand has remained high for IT professionals with a strong community of start-up businesses playing a key role. Ahsan Iqbal, Associate Director at Robert Walters, comments “In several major UK cities, particularly Birmingham and Manchester small tech start-ups have...

MYPINPAD, an enabler of multi-factor authentication for touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets, is being asked whether the digital commerce industry has compromised consumer security in favour of user experience. Recent news reports about increased levels of fraud across the likes of Amazon Prime, Uber, eBay and Vodafone have opened up the debate.  Are the rising fraud levels attributable to the ‘fragmented’ approach that the fintech industry takes in dealing with fraud? Have...

The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team has discovered a new wave of targeted attacks against the industrial and engineering sectors in multiple countries around the world. Using spear-phishing emails and malware based on commercial spyware kit, criminals hunt for valuable business related data stored in their victims’ networks. In total over 130 organisations from 30 countries, including Spain, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, India, Egypt, United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia and other countries were...

Okta, the leading provider of identity and device management for the cloud and mobile enterprise, today announced the findings of its first Secure Business Agility report. Based on data compiled from surveying 300 IT and security professionals, the report reveals that while most organisations fundamentally believe connecting people to the best technology is vital to business productivity, many struggle to achieve agility due to traditional on-premise security mindsets. Failing to adapt and upgrade security tools...

A lack of understanding of how to mitigate employee negligence is leaving firms wide open to cyber-attacks, a whitepaper published by defence and security consultancy QinetiQ has warned. In an analysis of government data and work with its own clients, QinetiQ has identified a clear gap between employee knowledge and their actions, concluding that security training alone will not change employee behaviours, with QinetiQ advocating a more holistic approach to security, designed with the integration...

Duo Security, a cloud-based trusted access provider protecting the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies, today published research that illustrates the risk phishing attacks present in the enterprise. Since its July 2016 launch, around 400 companies have begun using Duo Insight, a free tool that lets IT teams run internal phishing simulations. Of the 11,542 users who received a phishing email from their IT team, 31% of organizations are at risk of a data breach due...

Large businesses that struggle to attract sufficiently skilled IT security experts end up paying up to three times more to recover from a cybersecurity incident. This is one of the key findings of a recent report prepared by Kaspersky Lab, based on the experience of company experts and data from the 2016 Corporate IT Security Risks survey. Besides the measurable budget impact, a significant share of businesses is observing a growth in wages, a general...

Secure Cloudlink, a patented cloud services brokerage (CSB) that uniquely eliminates the risk, cost and frustration of using passwords as a means of identification, has announced that it is actively recruiting channel partners in the UK. The Secure Cloudlink solution supports three or more factor, SSO (single sign on) and biometric user authentication. However, unlike other market solutions it does not store, send or replicate any user credentials outside of an organisations’ internal directory service....

The Competition and Markets Authority’s recent announcement that banks will be pressured into allowing customers to access their entire finances via a single mobile app by 2018 has raised inevitable security concerns. However, the CMA’s ambitious plans can be made a reality if banks take the right steps to protect their own apps before the new measures come into place. This is according to app security specialists Promon. Once the new rules are implemented, consumers...

Financial malware is evolving through collaboration between malware creators, according to the results of Kaspersky Lab’s IT threat evolution Report for Q2. During the quarter, Kaspersky Lab products blocked 1,132,031 financial malware attacks on users, a rise of 15.6 per cent compared to the previous quarter.  One of the reasons for the rise is the collaboration between the authors of two leading banking Trojans: Gozi Trojan and Nymaim Trojan, pushing both into the top ten...