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Norton has just revealed the most common January sales scams. These scams could include anything from impersonating parcel delivery services to running ‘too good to be true’ online offers leading to malicious websites, as well as fake refunds and text phishing. According to the Norton Cybersecurity Insights Report: Among those who experienced cybercrime in the past year, 1 in 7 UK victims have had their financial information stolen as a result of shopping online Among the...

Already widely adopted by enterprises, use of cloud file sharing services such as Office 365, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Google Drive is on the rise. As adoption increases, so does the motivation for attack. The Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) recently announced new research on a new type of attack we call "Man in the Cloud" (MITC). These attacks rely on common file synchronization services as their infrastructure for command and control, data exfiltration and...

Leading automotive retailer and distributor adopts next generation endpoint security solution to protect and secure sensitive business information Hexis Cyber Solutions, Inc. (Hexis), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The KEYW Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: KEYW), has announced that automotive retailer and distributor, Lookers plc, is using its HawkEye G next-generation endpoint security solution in the UK and Ireland. HawkEye G is being used to protect Lookers’ business infrastructure against sophisticated cyber attacks to safeguard its reputation for outstanding...

PRESENTERS: Mike Smart and Richard Davis, Proofpoint. Phishing is without a doubt one of the biggest security threats to business today and cybercriminals are constantly modifying these threats in a bid to make them harder for humans and technology to detect. In this webinar, Proofpoint will be looking at the top 10 phishing lures of 2015 and the tricks hackers use to bypass security defences and humans, in order to gain access to corporate networks....

By Fred Touchette, senior security analyst - AppRiver   'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. But a laptop was open, the network logged on, and unfortunately for its owner, his security had gone. Unbeknownst to our user, and all others that care, this laptop had malware it wanted to share. It flew over wi-fi, pushed out through the router, and started its...

On the 15th of December, after much debate, what was first proposed back in 2012 will finally be established: the European Union has come to agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which updates and replaces Europe’s Data Protection Directive – rules that were first defined in 1995 (directive 95/46/EC). As business and cybersecurity leaders, what’s critical is the way in which we choose to interpret and respond to these changes that are now...

PhishMe has teamed up with the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics to compile its 2015 Enterprise Phishing Susceptibility Report, a document analysing employee behaviour pertaining to highly effective phishing scenarios. Looking at over 8 million emails in their research, PhishMe were able to identify which type of attack emails have the highest penetration rates and provide guidance on how to reduce the risk posed. Phishing is the most common cyberattack vector in...

Gavin Millard, EMEA technical director, Tenable Network Security shares 2016 predictions with IT Security Guru The Internet was never designed to support the needs of the modern enterprise. It is too insecure, and was always intended to be so. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, designed the Internet to make computers talk to each other and share information. Sir Tim has said that, at the point he invented the World Wide Web...

Join Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS LLC as we examine in detail the process of data breach response from the perspective of an elite IR team member. It will cover the steps taken to properly respond to a breach caused by a sophisticated hacker and go over some real-world case studies. This webinar was hosted as part of Security Serious Week 2015 - find out more at www.securityserious.com. https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11399/175825

In this video from BAE Systems, Chief Product Officer Neal Watkins highlights five things companies and senior executives should be looking for in a strong defence against cyber attack, providing a straightforward, easy to digest check list for non-technical managers who are looking to understand the threats that face their business. Flight check your company’s cyber security Today our personal lives, society’s essential services and just about every business is online, and that means cyber threats are...