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Companies in the UK admit that former employees who have access to corporate systems and data through old passwords and access rights could be putting them at risk of a security breach. This is according to figures from the latest research by Centrify Corporation, the leader in securing identities from cyber threats. The findings, from Centrify’s ‘State of the Corporate Perimeter’ survey of 400 UK and US IT decision makers (ITDMs), show that when it comes to the risks posed...

More than half of IT security professionals (52 percent) said loss of customer trust and confidence were the most damaging consequences of DDoS attacks for their businesses, according to new research from Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of First Line of Defence® security solutions against DDoS attacks. The research, conducted at the U.S. RSA Conference 2015 and Infosecurity Europe, also revealed that a fifth of respondents (22 percent) indicated that DDoS attacks...

KnowBe4, provider of the world’s most popular integrated platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing testing, has seen explosive growth for eight consecutive quarters. Noteworthy data breaches in the first half of 2015 such as Anthem and OPM, affecting millions, have left CEOs and CISOs alike scrambling for a way to manage the problem of social engineering. Even the FBI is getting in on the act, prompting an alert on June 23, 2015. As...

As printers become more involved in organisations’ networks, and begin to take on increasingly complex functions, new areas of vulnerability have appeared which threaten the stability of the entire network. Given the mounting threats organisations face, IT departments must address the possibility of internal and external breaches to their infrastructure or face costly repercussions, says Annodata. The latest figures from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) show that data breaches have reached near-epidemic...

Research from RiskIQ, the enterprise digital footprint security specialist, has discovered that 24 of the top 30 FTSE-listed companies in the UK are running web servers that will be out of support in less than a week, posing a potential security risk to both them and the public. On July 14th, Microsoft ends support for its popular Windows Server 2003 product, which includes its Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 web server and Small Business Server...

An investigation conducted in London has shown the ease with which personal data can be hacked when the target is using public Wi-Fi. Security and privacy software company F-Secure teamed up with penetration testing expert Mandalorian Security Services and the Cyber Security Research Institute to conduct the test – in this case, hacking into the devices of three politicians. The politicians, deliberately selected from the most powerful chambers in UK politics, were Rt. Hon. David...

Almost half (46 per cent) of Internet users believe traditional over-the-counter banking is safer than banking online, according to a survey carried out by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. Despite these fears, most people still make payments online but as many as one in five fail to take even basic security measures, putting their money and banks’ reputations at risk. One of the easiest ways for criminals to access online bank accounts is to pose...

Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, Unit 42, has just uncovered “Gunpoder” – a new family of Android malware that evades all antivirus products on the VirusTotal web service. Until recently, Gunpoder has been classified by antivirus engines as “benign” or “adware”, demonstrating the fine line when distinguishing between malware and adware. It named this malware family “Gunpoder” based on the main malicious component name, and the Unit 42 team observed 49 unique samples across three...

More than three quarters of IT security professionals (81%) believe the government should be sharing more threat intelligence information with the private sector, according to research conducted by Unified Security Management™ leader AlienVault™. In a survey of more than 300 UK-based IT security professionals, when asked how they viewed the government in protecting their business from hostile nations and major threats, a quarter of respondents (23.5%) perceived the government as consuming threat intelligence but not...

Despite an increased sense of awareness and frequent headlines of data breaches amongst well-known brands, small businesses in the UK still do not seem to understand that they are as much at risk of cyber attacks as large enterprises. New research by CSID, a leading provider of identity protection and fraud detection solutions, shows that 52 percent of small businesses in the UK are not taking any preventative measures to protect themselves against cyber crime....