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Business security is no longer an issue solely for the IT department. It now spans into the boardroom and can have great financial impact. Recent high profile data breaches are proof of this, with CEOs and CFOs under heavy scrutiny. This also comes at a time when the upcoming changes to the European General Data Protection Regulation are set to carry fines for noncompliance at as high as 2% of annual worldwide turnover. In light of...

Tenable Network Security®, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring™, today released findings from the 2016 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card, in which the world’s information security practitioners gave global cybersecurity readiness a “C” average with an overall score of 76 percent. The 2016 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card tallied responses from six countries and seven industry verticals, and also calculated a global score reflecting the overall confidence levels of security practitioners that the world’s...

As news comes that two thirds of shoppers will make their Christmas shopping purchases online, a new study by password manager Dashlane reveals the majority of the UK’s most popular e-commerce sites have unsafe password practices in its E-Commerce Security Roundup. Following recent major security breaches, this leaves today’s online shopper vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated hackers. Overall, 80% of the sites Dashlane examined did not meet the minimum score of +50, and 52% received negative...

Registration for the European IT Security Analyst & CISO Forum on 25th and 26th April 2016 is open! What is the event all about? Attendees will get the opportunity to brief the most powerful IT security analysts in the world, plus participate in a roundtable debate with a dozen top CISOs. You'll also get the chance to bring in sales leads from the vendor expo in the afternoon of day two. THE IT SECURITY ANALYST...

Unique local cyber-attacks and international cooperation with criminal groups in Eastern Europe, unsound government security and vague legislation, theft of money and private data, direct offensive ops on local victims and criminal-to-criminal services. For the first time Kaspersky Lab shares its intelligence on the human side of underground cyber-criminal activity. The first report in the Cyber Underground series reveals the hidden life of cyber-criminals in Brazil, a country ranked among the most dangerous for digital...

Kaspersky Lab’s latest report – ‘Spam and Phishing in Q3 2015’ reveals the latest spam and phishing trends across the globe. The report shows that although the percentage of spam in email traffic has decreased since Q2, spam is using an increasing variety of tactics to deceive recipients and bypass email filters. The report shows that in Q3 of 2015, spam accounted for 54.2 per cent of email traffic, a 0.8 per cent drop from the...

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE:IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today unveiled the findings of its sixth annual Web Application Attack Report (WAAR). This year’s report highlights cyber criminals’ use of automation to increase both the magnitude and velocity of attacks designed to compromise users and steal sensitive data. Every application analyzed in the report was attacked, with over 75 percent of the applications attacked by every one of the eight identified...

Ilex International, a leading Identity and Access Management firm, uncovers the reality of orphan accounts and the security risks posed for British businesses. Research, conducted by YouGov, found that while 58 percent of IT decision makers from large businesses surveyed terminated access of employees and partners on or before their day of departure, 39 percent took a few days to a month to close dormant accounts.  This raises serious concerns for British businesses, leaving them...

UK retailers should be on their guard and ready to face more potential cyberattacks this Christmas according to ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company™. Recent data, revealed today by ThreatMetrix in their Q3 Cybercrime Report*, indicates that 2015 is likely to be known as the biggest ‘Cybercriminal Christmas’ so far.  The report reveals the latest trends across the global threat landscape and is created from data and analysis from the ThreatMetrix® Digital Identity Network, which currently...

Cyber security consultancy MWR InfoSecurity today confirmed its research team has taken the first step towards creating a fully automated EMV fuzzing solution for POS and ATM transactions. As vulnerabilities can be introduced into the terminal-smartcard authentication procedure , there is a need for structured and formal security evaluation to eliminate unexploited threats that exist in current devices used world-wide. The Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard – more commonly known as ‘Chip and Pin’,...