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Top tips from Sophos’ Naked Security to make you, and your Sysadmin’s, life a bit easier. We don’t need Sysadmin Day to remind ourselves who creates all those IT problems we keep running into. We know the answer already: the cause of every IT problem can be traced back to Someone Else! But we do need Sysadmin Day to remember who fixes those problems: Sysadmins, the men and women who keep everything working so everyone...

Citizens rely on government to keep their data safe, wherever it’s held and whatever technology they use, however, a recent survey into Central Government, Local Authorities and the Blue Light & Justice sector reveals that citizen data is handled precariously with a disturbing lack of confidence in exactly how (or if) it is protected when using cloud models. GovNewsDirect conducted Your Data in The Cloud: Manage, Move & Protect 2016 public sector survey  alongside NetApp, which has...

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced the availability of Imperva ThreatRadar IP Reputation for Imperva Skyfence, a new threat intelligence offering that helps Imperva customers detect threats to enterprise data in SaaS applications from known bad actors. Imperva Skyfence cloud access security broker (CASB) integrates with Imperva CounterBreach, Imperva Incapsula and now ThreatRadar IP Reputation Services to provide a comprehensive solution that helps...

The recent news of an iPhone bug that allows hackers to steal passwords with just a text message should serve as a stark reminder about the huge market for stolen user credentials and the vulnerability of passwords. This is according Secure Cloud Link, who argue that organisations and individuals must realise that passwords are now an untenable means of authentication and present a major security risk. The security bug, which has now been repaired, meant...

According to new research from the global leader in professional IT resourcing, Experis, nearly six in ten IT leaders (59%) believe the ‘traditional’ IT department no longer exists in modern business. The optimum IT teams of 2020 will be vastly different from the ones we know today with a rise in contingent workers, wider skill sets, and a shift in team age range and gender balance. For the report, Tomorrows Tech Teams, Experis surveyed 1,000...

Password managers are tools that help you keep track of the numerous accounts that a modern digital lifestyle needs. These days, it’s not just passwords for your mainstream online accounts such as webmail, Facebook and Twitter. Even activities that you probably don’t associate with online life – renting an apartment, for example, registering to pay tax, or applying for a visa – often end up at a web page that requires you to create an...

UK government websites can now be deployed within minutes by re-using the familiar http//gov.uk theme produced by Government Digital Services (GDS) along with Bootstrap technology, allowing access from all devices. Open Source Software specialist OpusVL has made it possible to take the official Gov.UK website theme created by Government Digital Services with an Open license, and reproduce it quickly and easily using Bootstrap, a HTML, CSS and JavaScript framework originating from Twitter, which is used...

Proofpoint has today published its Quarterly Threat Report which analyses attacks across email, mobile and social across the last three months. The first five months of 2016 were dominated by malicious email campaigns of unprecedented volume. New ransomware variants emerged quickly. Meanwhile, Dridex actors began distributing Locky ransomware and repeatedly shifted tactics with new loaders, document attachment types, and obfuscation techniques to evade detection. Then at the end of May, one of the largest botnets...

Unisys Corporation has today announced that its UK subsidiary has been selected by Yorkshire Building Society Group (YBSG), the UK’s second largest building society, to provide its Unisys Stealth® data protection product to secure customer information and facilitate compliance with the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). To achieve and maintain PCI compliance, financial institutions need to securely control access to their organisations’ payment card data by only allowing authorised colleagues and technology to...

Flashpoint, the global leader in Deep & Dark Web data and intelligence, today released a new research report titled Tech for Jihad: Dissecting Jihadists’ Digital Toolbox. This report analyzes the specific tools and mechanisms behind the online presence of jihadist groups such as ISIS to illuminate technology’s role in proliferating these actors’ radical agendas. “In order to both gain popularity among potential supporters and instill fear in their adversaries, jihadists need consistent channels through which...