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Compromised online identities have reached a level that has exposed the weaknesses in usernames and passwords as well as traditional software security solutions. Government services around the world have a growing demand for strong two-factor authentication, but traditional hardware technologies have been too costly and complicated to scale for most countries and internet users. The UK Government has enlisted the services of Yubico and Digidentity, in a partnership that enables FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F)...

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has added end-to-end ecryption in its latest update to the app. This means that governments, hackers, even WhatsApp (and Facebook who owns it) can't peek at your messages. Following the huge row between the FBI and Apple over encrption, this could be seen as the tech industry biting back. Fred Touchette, Manager of Security Research at AppRiver stated that "WhatsApp’s decision to offer full end to end encryption is a great thing....

Aftab Afzal Will Oversee New Business Initiatives in Key Markets  NSFOCUS IB today announced that Aftab Afzal has joined the company as the new Senior VP and General Manager for the EMEA region. NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 to provide enterprise-level network security solutions and services primarily in the Asia/Pacific market. The new NSFOCUS International Business subsidiary brings advanced security solutions to the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Mr. Afzal brings to...

Reports started surfacing this week that one of the world's largest data leaks, being referred to as the Panama Papers, is shedding light on offshore financing of some of the richest and most powerful people around the globe. The leak, which included over 11.5 million files including emails, invoices and bank records, came from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that is reportedly one of the world's biggest creators of shell companies. As with Snowden, Wikileaks,...

After a hugely successful KickStarter Campaign which raised over £42,000, Bolton-based start-up DigitalDairy has released the first batch of its hotly anticipated Smart Cheese™, a special kind of IoT-enabled cheddar that's able to run popular apps such as WhatsApp, Candy Crush and Tinder, among many others. Running a specialised version of Android, users will also be able to use DigitalDairy's Smart Cheese™ to make calls, send and receive text messages and take photos with the built...

The BYOD & Mobile Security Report has just been released, shedding light on where the industry is with its adoption of BYOD and its capabilities in securing it. The report is presented by Tenable Network Security, SnoopWall, Skycure, Check Point, Blancco Technology Group, Bitglass and the Information Security Communtiy of LinkedIn. Surveying over 800 IT security professionals, the survey found that 72% of Infosec pros were concerned by the risks of data leakage/loss when implementing BYOD....

Annual IP EXPO Manchester event welcomes the original ‘M’ to keynote programme IP EXPO Manchester, part of Europe’s number one enterprise IT event series, has announced that Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5 and the real-life inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond series, will be the opening keynote speaker at this year’s event. Taking place on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 May at Manchester Central, Dame Stella will open the free to...

It’s long been known that the password is a flawed method of authentication but our research has shown that 62% of businesses in the UK have no plans to stop using the password.  The simple fact is it’s a low cost and well-understood form of authentication but it doesn’t stop attackers who simply steal the credentials and use them to login to a company’s network.  Layered and adaptive security that can provide intelligent access protection...

Bernard Hogan-Howe’s comments are a recognition that things cannot continue as they are: banks are fighting an expensive, losing battle against cybercrime, and carrying the can for the overall slow response to the explosion in online fraud. Cybercrime has moved on, and while people do need to take more responsibility for their use of technology, his proposals aren’t the solution. In the last decade, cybercrime has industrialised. It’s no longer the preserve of a small...

The Guru sat down with Nuix VP of Business Threat Intelligence and Analysis Joe Hoofnagle and asked him about a range of topics - from compliance to data analysis, see below for how companies are adapting and what the latest in analytics and security can help us accomplish today. Guru: How can data analysis be applied to combat insider threats? JH: It’s often thought (and preached in the industry) that organisations need to comb through...