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Real-money gaming apps – are brands gambling with more than they thought? By Ben Harknett, VP EMEA, RiskIQ The mobile gambling industry is booming and so are the cybersecurity risks its consumers face. The annual expenditure on mobile gambling is expected to reach $62 billion globally by 2018 and with people now spending more time using mobile apps than browsers it’s become the most popular platform for real-money gaming.  Yet alongside this growing consumer base...

Information managers lose a decade to track down papers for public release Phil Greenwood, Director at Iron Mountain The timeframe for releasing archived records into the public domain has changed from 30 years to 20.  To most people, changing a requirement from a very long time to a long time doesn’t sound that dramatic. But for the organisations charged with meeting that commitment, it’s a big step. Now a study reveals that one in three...

New Nessus Agents for Amazon, Debian and Ubuntu Linux, and new Nessus scanner for AWS help customers simplify cloud vulnerability management Tenable Network Security®, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring™, today announced new capabilities for Nessus® v6 that allow customers to simplify and extend vulnerability management for cloud environments by reducing the cloud infrastructure attack surface. When moving to cloud computing, many organizations discover that the benefits of the cloud are accompanied by unexpected...

Tenable simplifies regulatory compliance and improves performance of vulnerability assessments for European customers with Nessus Cloud now hosted on Amazon Web Services Frankfurt region Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a leader in continuous network monitoring, today announced the expansion of Nessus® Cloud services into Europe with its software as a service (SaaS) applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the AWS EU (Frankfurt) region.   For many businesses and government agencies in the European Union,...

New research by Databarracks has revealed that just 27 per cent of small businesses have a business continuity plan (BCP) in place, compared to 68 per cent of medium organisations and 75 per cent of large organisations. Worse still is that 73 per cent of the small businesses questioned admitted they hadn’t tested their BCP in the last 12 months, with nearly half not planning to within the next year. The findings are part of Databarracks’ sixth...

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...

The glamorous tuxedos, elegant lounge music, scent of lightly-stirred cocktails and the buzz of a win: the casino is a spectacular setting for those who have a love affair with taking chances as well as enjoying some world-class entertainment. But the face of gambling has changed drastically over the years – now, no longer do the poker parlours, comedy clubs, bingo halls and centre stages dominate the industry. The card sharps of blackjack and Texas...

Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of First Line of Defense® security solutions against DDoS attacks, today announced that Newscycle Solutions, provider of the most complete range of software solutions for the global news media industry, has implemented the Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System (TDS) for real-time protection against DDoS attacks. With performance and network stability threatened by DDoS attacks, Newscycle has taken a proactive approach to DDoS for protecting service availability for...

Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ Threat Intelligence unit has released information about Stegoloader. Appearing to have been active since 2012, this particular malware uses digital steganography – the art of hiding secret information within a digital image or graphic – to conceal its true nature and to avoid detection. Stegoloader operators are hiding a core component of the malware within a portable network graphic (PNG) hosted on a legitimate site. As Stegoloader executes, it downloads the core component...

Sadly, it is no longer a question of if you will be attacked, but a case of when. If you haven’t been breached, it’s only because you don’t know that it has happened yet. Should you find yourself asking, “we have been attacked, now what?”, then you are already in too deep. Every organisation should have a plan of action ready for their next attack in order to respond and recover as quickly and efficiently...