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"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,...

Dell Data Security Survey Finds that a Lack of Security Knowledge Limits Business Initiatives The results are in from a survey of 1302 IT decision makers conducted by Dell which sought to shed light on the C-suite's attitudes towards security, which has shown they're most constrained by costs and time associated with security. 70% of respondents felt that security was a burden upon their time. At the same time, 73% of those surveyed are still...

 European Footwear Giant Kurt Geiger Gains Real-Time Insights Into Website and Cloud Infrastructure Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that fashion footwear retailer Kurt Geiger relies on Splunk® Enterprise to support its growing e-commerce operations and improve the customer experience across its global websites. Splunk Enterprise helps Kurt Geiger to improve website uptime and deliver valuable insights across the business — including into its Amazon Web...

Bromium, the micro-virtualisation specialists from California, have just released the results of a survey conducted at RSA 2016 with some surprising results. Users take note! Asking 100 security professionals whether users were causing them the most headaches in their work, 70% of respondents replied "yes" - a pretty conclusive answer. What's more Bromium have completed similar surveys in previous year which have delivered the same answer, showing that something really must be done in this...

Identity management for wearables should be a top priority for IT managers Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, has announced the results from a survey conducted at the RSA Conference regarding the prevalence of wearables in the enterprise and the growing concern they pose for IT security. RSA is taking place this week at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco, US. First, 69 per cent of wearable device owners say they forego login credentials,...

With thousands of breaches happening every year, an often touted way of reducing the risk of corporate accounts and the like being compromised is through the implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA). However it's often not implemented, with a sort of 'granny's advice' situation becoming apparent where good advice is readily available, yet we continue to ignore it. So what is MFA? Why would we want to deploy it? Is it a hard thing to get...