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SailPoint have just released the results of their 2016 Market Pulse Survey, which takes the views of over 1000 workers from all over the world. The results show that employees don't see security as something worth prioritising - despite the fact a vast majority of them would be annoyed if their personal data was breached! The most shocking finding was that one in 5 of the employees surveyed would be wiling to sell their login details...

... But it don't matter. It clearly doesn't tear you apart... This week has not been easy for our beloved stars, with Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner’s holiday snaps being leaked after a hacker invaded the iCloud account of Harry’s mum and posted the photos on Twitter. (We’ll pause for a while so you can go search for them if you haven’t already...) Six-time Grammy winner Adele also fell victim to a photo hack this week...

Access All Areas? -- Stuart Facey, VP EMEA at Bomgar discusses how the control and management of network access can combat data breaches Last week, media regulator Ofcom confirmed that a major data breach had occurred within its organisation.  Before leaving the company a former employee had downloaded as much as six years of data provided by TV broadcasters to the regulator.  The data was reportedly offered to the ex-staffer’s new employer, with the intention...

Varonis, provider of software solutions that protect data from insider threats and cyberattacks, has just announced their findings after analysing a year's worth of anonymoused data collected during risk assessments on behalf of certain customers and it looks as if a lot of organisations are over-exposed. On average, companies held 9.9 million files on their systems that were accessible to every employee. To put that in context, Varonis found the average company held 35.3 million files - meaning...

Presented by Bob Tarzey, Analyst and Director, Quocirca Ltd Watch HERE The majority of organisations across Europe and UK now accept that targeted attacks are a serious problem. Quocirca’s presentation reviews recent research into the perception of cyber-threats, the impact they can have and the before, during and after measures organisations are putting in place to protect themselves against them. The presentation includes a preview of new research to be published in December 2015. This...

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...