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A study by endpoint security pros Code42 has shown that IT decision makers (ITDMs) are close to losing the trust of workers in the rest of their organisations. 67% of the 1500 knowledge workers surveyed do not believe their company has a clearly defined BYOD policy - yet 65% of the c. 400 ITDMs asked the same question think to the contrary. So what's going on? well considering 42% of all corporate data is currently...

IT professionals have no faith in passwords or the cyber security of their organisations, according to a survey carried out by Lieberman Software at this year’s RSA conference which studied the attitudes of nearly 200 IT security professionals. The results revealed that over three-quarters (77%) of IT professionals believe passwords are failing IT security. It also found that 53% of those surveyed thought that modern hacking tools could easily break passwords within their organizations. “These...

Cyber attackers are still riding the wave of success by attacking those surfing the web through their endpoint systems. All the valuable data - logins, access credentials and more - are still being regularly accessed by hackers, SANS has found in their 3rd endpoint security survey. After quizzing 829 IT professionals, they've concluded that there's a clear need for a more proactive approach to detecting threats and compromises. 44% of respondents said their endpoint systems...

Sites with a collective monthly readership of over 2.4 billion have been spotted playing host to unwanted guests -namely ads which send visitors to sites that host the angler exploit kit. Oh dear. The subsequent mawlare infections could have dire consequences for end users, who ma find their files being held to ransom, having been encrypted by hackers who won't decrypt the iles unless they're paid a certain amount of Bitcoins. Reports tell us so...

Students aren’t concerned about cyber security despite 77% seeing it as a growing threat. Only 17% of students are genuinely concerned by cyber security despite it affecting many of them, finds a new survey by Jisc, the digital services and solutions organisation for UK education and research. Students are unsurprisingly more worried about grades (90%), but are also more often worried about money (79%) or friendships (53%). The findings come as the Government is set...

"Advanced Persistent Threat" is a buzzword phrase in the industry, often used along with lots of promises to prevent it if you buy a product. But what is it really, and why is it so powerful? And how can you make sense of the bewildering array of products that all claim to prevent it? While we can't promise to make it understandable for your extended family, we can look at it with less jargon and...

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the global leader in cybersecurity, today announced it is helping Williams combat the latest threats and accelerate its security posture ahead of the 2016 Formula 1 season. The Williams group, which includes the WILLIAMS MARTINI RACING Formula One team and Williams Advanced Engineering, is replacing its existing security technology to keep pace with the rapidly evolving threats today’s IT environments face. With critically important IP to protect across the business, maintaining...

Enterprises need to plan now for the implementation of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) In order to be ahead of the laws set out in the GDPR, enterprises will need to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) ahead of when the bill comes into enforcement - at least that's the opinion of M-Files, a data & document management company. The GDPR (also known by the less catchy Directive 95/46/EC), is a new set...

Zscaler has uncovered new instances of the Android Marcher Trojan being hidden as a flash player for watching pornography on Android devices - by prompting users to update their flash player through the Google Play Store an deceiving users into filling in their payment details, the proprietors are exploiting goodness knows how many hapless porn-watchers. The e-mail attachment that contains the malicious Adobe flash file is where the story starts. The X-VIDEO app that users...

ESET® warns users against an increased number of infected emails containing a malicious attachment, which downloads and installs ransomware onto an infected device. When opened, it encrypts victims‘ files on thier PCs and requires a ransom for decryption. ESET telemetry detects this malicious downloader as JS/TrojanDownloader.Nemucod and records its unusually high incidence in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Nemucod is wide-spread via emails, which contain attached zipped files. Emails are written in a very trustworthy way,...