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Damballa, the experts in advanced threat protection and containment, today released its Q2 2015 State of Infections Report, highlighting how a device hi-jacked for the purpose of conducting ‘click-fraud’  can become a conduit for more serious malware such as ransomware.   The study cited an example of how a compromised device, originally exploited for the seemingly innocuous purpose of click fraud - a scam to defraud ‘pay-per-click’ advertisers -   became part of a chain of infections,...

What do CISOs want? We find the answers Ron Condon – Managing Editor – IT security guru explains What keeps CISOs awake at night? What would they love to have in a perfect world? What do they need to make their job easier and more effective? The best way to find out is to gather a dozen CISOs from some of the UK’s biggest organisations and put them in front of a group of leading...

New figures reveal that mid-sized and large businesses could be in line for fines totalling £20bn if they fail to protect their customers from data breaches. Companies that suffer a breach could face serious financial consequences once new data protection regulations are fully introduced across EU member states. Data breaches are increasingly frequent and, according to research from Experian, UK businesses appear to be acutely underprepared when it comes to the aftermath. Almost a fifth...

In a new impact report, Aite Group research director Julie Conroy finds that the use of knowledge-based analytics are on a fast decline, while various forms of behavioural analytics continue to see strong growth. Behavioural analysis is a cornerstone of NuData Security’s fraud prevention and detection solution. Conroy’s new report, “Digital Channel Fraud Mitigation: The Mobile Force Awakens,” details the latest threats to banks and their customers, and looks at the technologies being used by...

More than 50 percent (54%) of retailers in Europe and the US still have to consolidate their fraud management solutions across all channels, according to new commissioned research conducted by Forrester Consulting for ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and published in a report titled, Managing Fraud in an Omni-Channel World. The research reveals that omni-channel data aggregation, the increasing number of payment options, the demand for faster fulfilment and the rapidly changing nature of fraud all...

Yesterday, Adobe put out an emergency update to fix a dangerous security hole in its widely-installed Flash Player browser plugin. They warned that the vulnerability is already being exploited in targeted attacks, and urged users to issue the patch as soon as possible. In the advisory that they put on their website yesterday, Adobe said the latest version of Flash — v. 18.0.0.194 on Windows and Mac OS X — fixes a critical flaw (CVE-2015-3113) that is being...

OPSWAT, a software company that provides solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 9,021,163 entitled Determining Whether a Data Storage is Encrypted.  Inventors are Benjamin Czarny (CEO, OPSWAT), Jianpeng Mo (Director of Software Engineering, OPSWAT), and Boris Dynin (Consultant, Movil, inc.).  The patented technology is available today in OESIS Framework and will soon be available in OPSWAT Gears. About OPSWAT OESIS...

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced the results of new research in a report titled Masters of Machines II, from analyst firm Quocirca. Findings show that European organisations with the strongest Operational Intelligence capability are most likely to conquer the complexity of the fastest growing IT concerns. These concerns include security threats (up 25 per cent since 2013), data chaos (up 22 per cent) and...

A survey of 200 UK and 200 German organisations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring, has found that UK organisations are not as quick to react to potential cyber vulnerabilities as their German counterparts. Twenty-nine percent of UK organisations said they could patch significant vulnerabilities, such as ShellShock and Heartbleed, within an hour, compared to 48 percent of German organizations. To detect new software...

Pindrop Security, the leading provider of call centre anti-fraud and authentication solutions for enterprise call centres, today announced the findings of its annual Phone Fraud Report. For the report, Pindrop analysed several million calls for threats using the company’s patented Phoneprinting™ technology and Phoneypot™ monitoring technology. The research found a 30 percent rise in enterprise attacks and more than 86.2 million attacks per month on U.S. consumers. Phone fraud continues to threaten enterprises across industries...