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Global Risk Technologies, a leading technology company specialising in chargeback compliance, is warning online merchants that the rollout of chip and PIN card protection (EMV) in the United States is set to cause a major shift in credit card fraud to card-not-present (CNP) transactions in the UK and Europe. On 1st October, the US reaches the deadline set for its liability shift to EMV protection on credit and debit cards. From this date, the party...

Kount, a leading provider of fraud detection and sales boosting technology has announced that it has integrated Emailage, an innovative new fraud prevention solution that gives merchants the ability to assess and leverage risk based on a user’s email address. Email addresses are universal data points that are already collected during most transactions and, sometimes, the only data point available to a merchant. Yet even with this limited information, Emailage can provide intelligent fraud risk...

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, today announced the results of a study conducted by Dimensional Research on the cybersecurity literacy challenges faced by organisations. The study, carried out in May 2015, evaluated cybersecurity risk decision-making and communication between IT security professionals, executive teams and boards. Study respondents included 200 IT security professionals at U.S. companies with annual revenues of more than $5 billion, and 151 IT professionals...

The British public are quickly becoming more aware of the dangers of using public WiFi, research by F-Secure has found. The new study has revealed that 39% of the people said that they worry about the security of public WiFi, an increase of 9 per cent in less than a year*. The research was conducted in July in conjunction with F-Secure’s Politician Hack experiment, aimed at highlighting the insecurities of the open network. Adoption of...

New research has revealed that human error is still the leading cause of data loss for organisations in the UK. The findings come as part of Databarracks’ Data Health Check report, a survey of over 400 IT decision makers. The report, published last week, revealed that 24 per cent of organisations admitted to a data loss caused by employee accidents in the last 12 months. Other high-scoring causes of data loss included hardware failure (21 per cent)...

With just over 4 weeks to go before Security Serious Week kicks off on 26th October, I am pleased to report that the campaign has an amazing 52 companies who are offering their time and expertise for FREE during Security Serious Week.  Why?  Because our industry is special and collaborative! If we don't get together to help impart some of our skills and knowledge to those companies who don't quite get it, then we'll all suffer! ...

Information security consultancy MWR InfoSecurity today outlined details of its DevSecCon workshop - Android Security Within the Development Lifecycle. The session will provide an insight into common security flaws seen in Android applications, and offers a view toward automation methods which may be used to prevent vulnerabilities going to market. DevSecCon is a one day event, with seminars, workshops and open sessions, aiming to initiate a culture change in IT to deliver integrated, continuously secure solutions to...

New research from Grant Thornton International Ltd reveals that cyber attacks are taking a serious toll on business, with the total cost of attacks globally estimated to be more than £200bn (at least US$315bn*) over the past 12 months. The UK government has classified cyber security as one of the four top threats to the UK, alongside natural disasters, international terrorism and military invasion. The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), a global survey of...

Research shows 90 per cent of businesses had security breaches in the last year Intel Security latest business to join UK cyber security scheme as more than 1,000 businesses now accredited £1/2m fund to help develop cyber security skills UK businesses were today warned about the growing risk of cyber attacks as Minister for the Digital Economy, Ed Vaizey, urged businesses across the country to protect themselves by taking up the Government’s Cyber Essentials scheme....

A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has revealed that nearly half of Internet users (45 per cent) encountered malicious software during the last year and in most cases (81 per cent) this had a negative impact on both users and their devices. Malware was most commonly encountered on Windows computers – 83 per cent of Windows users said they had been affected in the last 12 months. However, Android and Mac OS...