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UK media regulator, Ofcom, is looking at the biggest data breach in its history, involving the misuse of data that was downloaded by an employee before leaving the company. It appears that the now ex-staff member stole as much as six years worth of data that Ofcom had received from TV broadcasters, before offering this data to his new employer, which, apparently, rejected it, and contacted Ofcom about the breach. “On 26 February we became aware of an incident involving the...

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of endpoint protection and response, security and compliance and IT operations solutions, today announced the results of an extensive study conducted by Dimensional Research and Tripwire’s Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) on the state of enterprise patch management. The study evaluated the attitudes of over 480 IT professionals involved in patch management and assessed enterprise patch volume and installation trends. Patch management plays a critical role in minimizing...

Bromium, the micro-virtualisation specialists from California, have just released the results of a survey conducted at RSA 2016 with some surprising results. Users take note! Asking 100 security professionals whether users were causing them the most headaches in their work, 70% of respondents replied "yes" - a pretty conclusive answer. What's more Bromium have completed similar surveys in previous year which have delivered the same answer, showing that something really must be done in this...

A new study from cyber security firm Tripwire has revealed that security professionals don’t trust governments to act responsibly if technology companies are forced to give them access to encrypted data. The study, which was carried out at this week’s RSA conference, surveyed 198 IT security professionals and revealed that 82 percent believe it is either very likely or certain that government agencies would abuse their right to access encrypted data if technology companies are...

Kaspersky Lab experts have detected Triada, a new Trojan targeting Android devices that can be compared to Window-based malware in terms of its complexity. It is stealthy, modular, persistent and written by very professional cybercriminals. Devices running the 4.4.4. and earlier versions of the Android OS are at the greatest risk. According to the recent Kaspersky Lab research on Mobile Virusology, nearly half of the top 20 Trojans in 2015 were malicious programs with the...

A shocking 97% of FTSE 250 companies are not adequately protecting their customers against phishing attacks, according to a new industry report from Cyber Security Partners (CSP). The findings reveal that only 17 companies in the FTSE 250 are using the DMARC standard to prevent email scams which enable theft of customer passwords, bank accounts, credit cards and other sensitive information. DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication...

Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and collaborative with every coming year. Indeed, incidents such as the recent alleged zero day breach at Lincolnshire Council highlight the impact this can have, as the council was forced to shutdown it’s IT for over four days. Medical records, addresses, dates of birth and bank details were allegedly exposed and a £1m ransom demand made. Further, according to the latest report from the Office National Statistics, cybercrime including bank...

A new study by IT security firm ESET has revealed that children in the UK are being allowed to surf the internet completely unsupervised before they are trusted with their own set of house keys. 22 percent of the 1000 British parents surveyed said they allow their children, aged under seven years, to surf the internet unsupervised, while the average age was 9.5. In comparison, the average age at which British parents give their children...

Cloudmark’s Annual Security Threat Report is now available.  Through Cloudmark’s unique crowd sourced security platform, which analyses user behaviour from more than 1 billion subscribers and more than 10% of the world’s email traffic, it is able to detect the largest threats of the year and the impact they will have in 2016. 25,000 different malicious Bitly links detected, of which 97% are email spam and damaging brands such as CNN and AOL Spammers using this...

Personal finance and mobile banking apps are among the highest used mobile apps. Yet, despite high adoption and use, consumers remain wary. New research by Norton, Symantec’s consumer security business, looked at consumer perceptions of mobile security finding that consumers would be drastically more upset if a stranger were to obtain access to a mobile banking app than an app-controlled connected device (even a baby monitor or home entry system). In January 2016, Norton scanned...