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Fujitsu is launching a comprehensive portfolio of services to help organisations comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new legislation, which will come into effect on May 25, 2018, introduces new obligations for all organisations – no matter where they are based – that store, process or analyse personal data of EU residents. Fujitsu services related to the EU GDPR are aimed at helping organisations to be both aware of and prepared...

Corero Network Security’s (LSE: CNS) today introduced SmartProtect, a new program to enable DDoS Protection-as-a-Service (DDPaaS) for hosting providers and  internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver to their customer base. With SmartProtect, providers take advantage of Corero’s SmartWall® Network Threat Defense (TDS) solution to successfully offer their downstream customers a managed DDoS security service that delivers advanced DDoS protection for these businesses and in turn, drive new service revenue. “Corero SmartProtect is a new program designed...

Unlike legacy signature-based detection systems, today’s generation of AI-powered security technologies are rarely suited to a plug-it-in-and-watch-it-light-up evaluation strategy. They often include a mix of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, automated threat hunting, trained classifiers, and focus on reducing the number of erroneous and unactionable alerts. As a result, evaluating their detection efficacy requires carefully planned testing before making a buying decision. For products focused on detecting network-borne threats, it is always wise to account...

Today, Citrix announced new research which revealed that an average of £27,818 is now spent by many local authorities on health and safety training, nearly double the spend in 2015 (£14,061 per local authority). This is considerably more than the amount being committed to data protection and IT security training - just £3,378 per local authority. This new data was obtained by a Freedom of Information (FoI) request issued to 129 local authorities, with 109...

Necurs, thought to be one of the world's largest botnets, returned online in June this year, and once again began to terrorize victims who got in its path. Necurs is responsible for millions in dollar losses linked to Locky ransomware and Dridex banking Trojan infections. In this short video, AppRiver's experts discuss how they noticed and questioned the significant decrease in the virus traffic. According to their's blog the botnet wasn’t taken down earlier in June, but randomly...

The growing threat of ransomware attacks in 2016 raises concerns among businesses and consumers alike (“Locky” and “Zepto” being just two examples). In this short video, Appriver’s experts talk about the data cyber attackers are going after and which can kindly be decrypted and returned to the victim in exchange of a particular sum of money. To get the latest insights from AppRiver, sign up to their blog.

What makes macros malware so dangerous is the fact that their authors use the macro power for creating bits of code that can download and execute malicious files when the documents are run on a victims machine. Moreover, recently even the Office object linking and embedding (OLE) capabilities have been misused to trick users into enabling and downloading harmful content. In this video AppRiver's security experts focus on the ways users are tricked into triggering such hostile software. To...

The dramatic increase in phishing attacks (especially spear phishing emails) in the last few months raises serious concerns among business corporations. Join AppRiver's security experts as they go through the process of such highly-targeted attacks, the ways users are usually approached and suggest how users can stay protected. To get the latest insights from AppRiver,  sign up to their blog.

Hacking IoT devices and smart objects is always making headlines. After all, we use these devices to simplify our lives - so having their processes interrupted, hijacked or used against us is a real nightmare. However, hacking a thermostat is one thing; hacking a car is another. At this year's Black Hat in Las Vegas, experts once again showed that the Jeep Cherokee is vulnerable to the whims of cyber-crims. Researchers sent false messages to the...

This year we have seen an average of ten updates a month from Microsoft alone.  Team this with Adobe having one to two bulletins a month and a number of subsequent updates from third parties including Oracle, Google, and Apple, there hasn’t been a month so far in 2016 where you have less than 14 bulletins to test and update! In anticipation of the law of averages holding true, I have prepared the following quick...