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AppRiver, a leading provider of email messaging and Web security solutions, today confirmed its first distributor for the BeNeLux region.  DCC  Nederland, a value added distributor, is to add all of AppRiver’s products to its portfolio – including SecureTide™ spam and virus protection, CipherPost Pro™ email encryption and SecureSurf™ Web protection. AppRiver and DCC’s partnership could not come at a more influential time for the cloud industry.  According to a recent Gartner survey, 72 percent...

In today's news: A wave of malware has hit online advertising, as hackers buy up ad space which they then use to scope out potential victims for their trojans. More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

Survey Cites Risk of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure; Issues with Flash and Security Patching Contribute to Endpoint Security Risk Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced the publication of “Black Hat 2015: State of Security,” a survey of more than 100 information security professionals conducted at the Black Hat Conference 2015. The survey reveals issues with Flash and security patch management, with the majority of respondents citing the endpoint...

A survey of over 200 IT professionals at this year’s InfoSecurity Europe has found that, while almost 80% of organisations have a process for employees to report phishing emails to the IT/security department, most don’t. In fact, over half of those spoken with (52%) estimated employees report less than 25% of dodgy emails. Digging a little deeper revealed only 8% think that more than 75% of suspicious messages are reported. This surprising statistic comes in...

Harness machine data, that’s how. by Joe Goldberg, Chief Security Evangelist at Splunk As organisations across the world embrace online channels to market, the bad guys of the internet are being rewarded with more avenues in which to breach businesses. Open networks, online payment portals and even Point-of-Sale devices are leaving organisations open to more advanced and persistent threats. Such threats are coming from hacktivists, cybercriminals, malicious insiders, and nation states. Aided by speed, persistence...

In today's news: 32 people are facing charges in the US after authorities investigated an alleged international hacking and insider trading ring. The group's members, operating in the US and Ukraine, allegedly netter more than $100m (£64m) in illegal profits. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

On the anniversary of this infamous crime, we ask - how would it be investigated if it happened in 2015? By Martyn Ruks, Technical Director of MWR InfoSecurity. 52 years ago today, on a quiet piece of track somewhere in Buckinghamshire, a Royal mail train was held up by a gang of 15 men, robbing it of the large quantity of cash it was hauling to London. After a successful raid, they made off with...

In today's news: The Carphone Warehouse has suffered a data breach which may have compromised the personal details of over 2 million customers. The investigation continues and Dixons Carphone has upped its security measures in response. More IT Security News at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: The US Government has been hacked again, with unclassified email networks at the pentagon being broken into by what is reportedly a 'state actor'. Some sources are putting the blame on Russia, but as of yet we're uncertain. more at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru

In today's news: Researchers have contended that Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, better known as Slavik, was using the Gameover ZeuS banking trojan for political espionage. More IT security news at www.itsecurityguru.org @IT_SecGuru