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NuData Security has partnered with The National Anti-Organized Retail Crime Association (NAORCA). Through this affiliation, NuData Security and NAORCA will utilize their combined strength to combat the global epidemic of organised retail crime. NuData Security uses a new approach to traditional fraud detection by focusing on verifying good users and protecting the customer experience. Growing threat: Industry experts estimate the cost of organized retail crime in the United States alone to be $30-$40 billion a year...

Once data security incident is made public the potential ramifications include a wide-ranging investigation by a regulatory agency, such as state attorneys general. However, according to BakerHostetler’s 2016 Data Security Incident Response Report, regulatory investigations were slightly lower for incidents the firm managed in 2015 – 24% – down from 31% the year before. While these statistics show that an investigation is not necessarily inevitable following every reported data incident, the frequency is such that...

University of Exeter experts will collect large amounts of propaganda put on the internet by Islamic State terrorists in real time to understand how it radicalises people. The group is well-known for its use of social media to elicit fear and communicate and promote its ideology. Academics will harvest and analyse this content, and use this huge amount of information to understand more about the themes, issues and claims made by ISIS. It is hoped...

Vormetric, a Thales company, and a leader in enterprise data protection for physical, virtual, big data, and cloud environments, today announced the results of the European Edition of the 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report (DTR). The report is issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research, reporting responses from senior IT security executives at large enterprises worldwide, including 100 from UK organisations. This edition of the fourth annual report extends earlier findings of the global...

The last quarter of 2015 witnessed a series of high profile data breaches which may prove to be a tipping point in public attitudes towards data security. The TalkTalk hack, in particular, defines the new risk normal for 21st century business. Estimates put the cost to the company at £60 million and between 100,000 and 250,000 lost customers. By chance, this period also saw the release of the final draft of the new European General...

Cybercriminals are driving up fraud levels to a record high by creating substantial armies of automated cyber robots – otherwise known as Bots. ThreatMetrix, The Digital Identity Company, has today released its Q1 Cybercrime Report revealing that 311 million Bot attacks were detected and stopped over a 90 day period. Although around for some time, Botnet attacks have become more complex, sophisticated and harder to predict than ever before. In many cases, they are mirroring...

  So, it appears that the LinkedIn breach of 2012 was a lot more serious than previously thought. At the time, researchers found almost 6.5 million credentials belonging to site users, however the login credentials for more than 117 million LinkedIn accounts have now been put up for sale online with an asking price of $2,200. These credentials include email addresses, as well as poorly scrambled passwords. LinkedIn is working to invalidate the passwords that may...

New research from RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, has identified over 450 pirate content sites serving Malware to people trying to download or stream illegal versions of Game of Thrones. This reinforces recent RiskIQ research showing that 6 in 10 consumers access pirated content and 75% of this pirated content is often used as the bait to serve malware. With season 6 of Game of Thrones in full swing and TorrentFreak confirming the...

ESET researchers have discovered malware that has eluded the attention of anti-malware researchers since at least 2008. Detected by ESET as Win32/Prikormka, the malware is being used to carry out cyber-espionage activities in Ukraine, primarily targeting anti-government separatists in the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.  “Along with the armed conflict in the East of Ukraine, the country has been encountering numerous targeted cyberattacks, or so-called advanced persistent threats. For example, we discovered several campaigns...

New regulations governing how European organisations approach data security will soon be enshrined into law , imposing a host of new data security obligations for businesses operating within the EU. Chris Russell, CTO, Swivel Secure, explores the operational implications and why European businesses of all sizes need to get serious about their security, and fast. The aim of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to drive the modernisation of Europe’s data security practices...