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Egress, the leading provider of people-centric data security solutions, today announced its official launch into the Benelux market. The company, which helps organisations receive, manage and share information securely, has selected Amsterdam as the location of its mainland Europe headquarters due to the city’s reputation for technical innovation and access to an ecosystem of top data security specialists. “Egress’ success over the past five years has been underpinned by our market-leading security tools that have...

Keeping our digital footprint private is growing more important – and challenging – in today’s increasingly connected world, finds Kaspersky Lab. Results from a survey of 2,000 UK adults found that people believe there is not enough business or state protection currently in place to defend it: 41% of UK respondents think that businesses should do more to protect their personal data, including passwords, addresses and bank account details, from hacking More than a quarter...

A perfect storm of regulation, increased threats and technological complexity is overwhelming cyber security decision makers, reveals new research from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC). Four in five (82 percent) security leaders across France, Germany and the UK report feeling burned out, whilst just under two-thirds (63 percent) think about leaving the industry or quitting their job (64 percent). Surveying 3,045 cyber security decision makers across the across France, Germany and the UK, the research - conducted...

MobileIron (NASDAQ:MOBL) introduces the industry’s first mobile-centric, zero trust security platform. MobileIron's mobile-centric strategy allows for continuous enforcement and protection of data, both on the device and on the network, with comprehensive correlation between the critical signals for zero trust: user, device, apps, networks, and threats. This makes the world’s most ubiquitous product – the mobile device – your ID and secure access to the enterprise. This platform goes beyond identity management and gateway approaches...

Attackers gained unauthorized access to an Equitas Health employee’s email account that contained a limited number of members’ personal information. The compromised information includes names, dates of birth, patient account and medical record numbers, prescription information, medical history and procedure information, physician names, and more. Equitas Health is providing all potentially impacted individuals with free identity monitoring services for 12 months. Source: Cyware

Australians’ Medicare details are still being illegally offered for sale on the darknet, almost two years after Guardian Australia revealed the serious privacy breach. Screenshots of the Empire Market, provided to Guardian Australia, show the vendor Medicare Machine has rebranded as Medicare Madness, offering Medicare details for $US21. Other vendors charge up to $US340 by offering fake Medicare cards alongside other fake forms of identification – such as a New South Wales licence. Source: The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of Russians, including former government officials, have had their passport data posted online in the country’s latest massive data leak, the RBC news website cited new research as saying Wednesday. The breach of at least eight government websites, analyzed by privacy expert Ivan Begtin, exposed the passport data of 360,000 people. Last month, Begtin disclosed that 2.2 million passport entries taken from online marketing websites were openly available online. Source: The Moscow Times

John Lewis has added cyber crime cover to its home insurance policies for the first time – but questions have been raised over whether the protection is any use or just a gimmick designed to boost sales. The cover protects the firm’s home insurance customers against online fraud, hacking, identity theft, so-called push payment scams and computer viruses for up to £50,000. John Lewis is the first major insurance brand to sell this type of...

Part of the British Transport Police's (BTP) website has been hacked, the force has confirmed. BTP said it was made aware of "a threat to the newsroom section" of its website - hosted by an external supplier. The main page was unaffected but clicks on the "latest news" link are directed to a Tumblr blog run by the force. Checks carried out by BTP, the National Cyber Security Centre and the National Crime Agency found...

Cyber-attacks in the UK spiralled upwards by 140% in 2018, according to a recent cyber-threat landscape report. According to the paper, a rise in botnet activity also saw 40% of small and mid-sized businesses impacted by at least one cyber-attack over the 12-month period. A new study from computer and network security company eSentire has found that cyber-attacks in the UK spiked by a colossal margin over the course of last year. According to the...