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Last year, it was estimated that almost half of all internet traffic (49%) had come from bots - and with that, it seems malicious ones had also increased their share to roughly 32% of this figure. 73% of businesses had experienced some form of cyber attack during the last year. Of those experiencing such attacks, 13% said that the cost to them was more than $500,000. Despite the increase in attacks and greater financial losses,...

New research by Hornetsecurity highlights the AI cybersecurity gap affecting UK businesses. Although nearly half (45%) of companies have fallen victim to cyberattacks, 26% are still not using AI to enhance their cybersecurity defences. The survey, which gathered responses from over 500 C-suite professionals across the UK, reveals that cyber threats are an escalating concern. 85% of respondents acknowledge the increased sophistication of these attacks, largely attributed to AI facilitating the process of threat creation....

Companies can level up their cybersecurity defenses - eliminating the skills and knowledge gaps that criminals regularly exploit thanks to Hack The Box’s Cyber Performance Center. Hack The Box’s Cyber Performance Center unites individual ability, business management practices, and the human factor in the cybersecurity industry and it is designed to help organizations take a coordinated approach to their cyber readiness, reducing the vulnerabilities created when cybersecurity is siloed or treated as a tick-box requirement....

Synopsys has introduced Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition, a novel software composition analysis (SCA) solution. This offering aids organisations in mitigating upstream risks within their software supply chains. Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition amalgamates various open source detection technologies, automated third-party software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis, and malware detection to offer a comprehensive perspective on software risks originating from open source, third-party, and AI-generated code sources. Development and security teams can now trace dependencies...

Ever since Bitcoin was launched in 2009, cryptocurrency has been growing increasingly popular as an alternative to fiat currency. Both payment methods offer benefits to users, with some enthusiasts considering crypto to be more secure than traditional fiat payments. In this article, we’ll look at crypto’s security features along with its risks and vulnerabilities compared to fiat currency. Cryptocurrency Security Features Digital currencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, are built to operate using blockchain technology. Blockchain...

Researchers at Comparitech, the pro-consumer website providing information, tools, reviews and comparisons to help readers improve their cyber security and privacy online, have discovered that ransomware gang Qilin claimed credit on its website for stealing 550 GB of data from the Big Issue, a UK-based street newspaper. The company has said in a statement that it is working with NCSC, NCA and Metropolitan Police to complete its investigation. In a blog post, security and privacy...

WatchGuard® Technologies, a unified cybersecurity company, has announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers. Key findings from the data show a dramatic surge in evasive malware that fueled a large increase of total malware, threat actors targeting on-premises email servers as prime targets to exploit, and ransomware detections continuing to decline, potentially as a result of...

Cybaverse, a cyber security services provide based in the south of England, has launched two new platforms to help end-user organisations and MSPs manage security more efficiently. Cybaverse.ai  has been designed to streamline cyber security management, offering end-users with the ability to manage all their security efforts in one place, while MSPs can integrate the platform with multiple clients and use it as a single source to manage all their cyber security projects. Cybercrime is...

Pentest People, the Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS®) and cybersecurity experts, today announces it has become one of only a few companies in the UK to be an Assured Service Provider in the recently launched National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Incident Exercising (CIE) scheme.  Run by the NCSC, through its ‘Delivery Partners’ CREST and IASME, this initiative enables organisations to easily find reliable cybersecurity professionals capable of evaluating the robustness of their cyber...

i-confidential, a leader in cyber security consultancy services and a specialist provider of security resourcing, has announced it has achieved a Gold Sustainability rating from EcoVadis, one of the world’s leading providers of business sustainability accreditations. i-confidential notes that business and sustainability are becoming increasingly connected today, with investors and customers being more focused on partnering with businesses that work hard to reduce their environmental impact. EcoVadis is the global standard for business sustainability ratings....