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Industry practitioners concerned about weak passwords within the workplace need to understand that the solution to addressing this does not lie in the regularity in which passwords are changed but in the entire flawed process of password security systems, which needs to be abolished, according to Dave Worrall, CTO at Secure Cloudlink. Verizon recently released its annual Data Breach Investigations report, which reports on the major security breaches and methods used by hackers to compromise businesses and governmental organisations. One of the critical findings within this...

Fears that new machines would gobble up jobs and turn society upside down were widespread as the Industrial Revolution unfolded two centuries ago. Back then the controversy over the dangers posed by machines was known as the “machinery question”. Now a very similar debate is under way once again, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), which allow machines to perform tasks that could previously be done only by humans. The field of artificial intelligence...

The European Cup will be watched by millions of fans across the world, however because of its immense popularity it is also an ideal platform for cybercriminals to launch attacks, and a new survey from internet security firm ESET has revealed that almost a third of IT professionals believe the tournament will put an extra burden on their company’s IT teams which they will struggle to cope with. Commenting on the findings, Mark James, security...

Over a third of those who work in the IT security industry (38 percent) fear that leaving the EU would make the UK more vulnerable to cyber attacks because they would no longer benefit from intelligence sharing with other EU states, according to new research conducted by Unified Security Management™ and crowd-sourced threat intelligence leader, AlienVault®.  The research, which surveyed the attitudes of around 300 IT security professionals at the Infosecurity Europe conference, also found...

Citrix is just the latest in a long line of companies to have fallen victim to a data breach, after users’ passwords were compromised following a ‘sophisticated data breach’. The news should act as a reminder for organisations and individuals to move beyond passwords, according to Dave Worrall, CTO at Secure Cloudlink, who argues the weaknesses presented by passwords are consistently being ignored. Worrall explains: “Given the severity and regularity of data breaches, it’s clear...

The full impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come as a shock to the four-in-ten mid-market companies (250-2,500 employees) in Europe that hold on to almost every record regardless of official retention guidelines, according to leading storage and information management company Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM). In a study undertaken with PwC, Iron Mountain found that one in ten (11%) mid-market businesses in the EU retain information without taking into account variable...

A study carried out just days before the referendum on whether or not the UK should leave or remain a part of the EU has shown that the public is unclear of the impact that leaving the EU would have on their privacy.  The survey conducted on behalf of the security and privacy and comparison website, Comparitech.com, and carried out by OnePoll found that out of 1,000 members of the UK public, 47% did not...

Global IT security vendor IS Decisions today launches version 9 of its flagship software UserLock after the company’s research study found that more than 1 in 3 (34%) of UK organisations have suffered a security breach as a result of compromised company login credentials. The IS Decisions survey was answered by 250 people responsible for IT security within UK organisations. The results uncover some shocking truths about the state of the country’s user access security....

Citirx's GoToMyPC remote desktop access has experienced a hacking attack on their systems, with all users required to reset their passwords before logging in to the service. GoToMyPC published a post on their system status page, with the company stating that they had been hit by a very sophisticated password attack. The Guru spoke to several IT security experts to get their take on the breach. Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS IB. "I find...

According to a recent Kaspersky blog, attacks on organisations are being launched by an APT group named ScarCruft, using a zero-day Flash exploit. ScarCruft is a relatively new APT group and victims have been observed in Russia, Nepal, South Korea, China, India, Kuwait and Romania. The group has several ongoing operations, utilising multiple exploits — two for Adobe Flash and one for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dubbed Operation Daybreak, the attack appears to have been launched...