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Over one in ten data breaches originate from a malicious insider, and they cost companies $4.18 million dollars per incident. And that’s only the malicious ones.   According to the 2023 Insider Threat Report by Cybersecurity Insiders, nearly three-fourths (74%) of organizations are at least moderately vulnerable to insider threats. It’s worth a company’s time to recognize the five main types of these kinds of attacks and know how to prevent them.  Recognizing Risk  Privileged Insiders...

New Specops Software research has unearthed the length of time it takes modern attackers to brute force user passwords. Plain text password storage is rare in these modern times, requiring attackers to adopt password cracking methods to make use of the majority of (hashed) password leaks. However, with the help of newer password-cracking hardware and software, the time to crack passwords is now considerably short. Darren James, Senior Product Manager at Specops Software, states “the...

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, Ciaran Martin CB, Professor at Oxford University. To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch Off the back of the inaugural event...

Popular social media platform Discord has notified users it has suffered a data breach after a support agent’s account at a third party became compromised. A malicious individual then gained unauthorised access to the agent’s support queue, exposing user email addresses, Discord support messages and attachments sent via the ticket system. Discord - which has a user base of over 150 million monthly active users - has deactivated the compromised account and undertaken security checks...

While there is no specific intelligence about an attacked planned for the weekend, experts from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre have been drafted to help minimise the risk of sabotage. Broadcasters' main worry suffering an attack from pro-Russian hackers looking to disrupt the public vote on Saturday. Fortunately, there are "so many contingency plans" in place in the event of incident. Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of unscripted programmes said: “I don’t want to say...

Today, Outpost24 announced that it has appointed Brendan Hogan as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). Hogan is responsible for spearheading M&A Strategy, Corporate Development and Alliance strategy for the company. Hogan has over 20 years of strategy and corporate development experience across technology and security. In his new role as Outpost24 CSO, Hogan will drive the long-term strategy that enhances current product offerings, scale operations to support new growth opportunities for Outpost24’s existing businesses and look...

A year ago, Dragos Inc. released the first cybersecurity resource designed to provide industrial asset owners and operators with free OT-specific cybersecurity resources. Dragos OT-CERT (Operational Technology – Cyber Emergence Readiness Team), was designed specifically to help teams within small and mid-sized organisations to help them build their OT cybersecurity programmes, improve their security postures, and reduce OT risk. The product was launched at the 2022 RSA Conference and has grown to include over 900...

Salt Security have announced the addition of new advanced threat detection capabilities and improved API discovery to the Salt Security API Protection Platform. Salt now includes richer detection of user intent, analytics to evaluate API threat severity, and rapid investigation enhancements that reduce time to resolution for API attacks. In addition, Salt has strengthened its API discovery process with more comprehensive endpoint mapping to support API discovery at scale. Salt will showcase these new capabilities...

Armis has announced significant business momentum in the healthcare sector driven by healthcare and life sciences companies choosing the Armis Platform to identify and secure their medical devices. Armis has become a critical partner to global healthcare and life sciences organisations to help identify the entire digital landscape across IoMT, OT, IoT and IT assets essential to connected care delivery. Armis supports healthcare and life sciences organisations globally, including 5 out of 8 of the...

There's never a dull day in cybersecurity...Below, we round-up some of top stories that hit the headlines this week! A Rough Day for Colonel Sanders While many of us in the UK hit send on our final work email and tucked away our laptops to enjoy a well-deserved long weekend break, Yum! Brands - owner of the world-renown fast food triad of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell - were in the midst of sending...