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Untrained and Malicious Users Biggest Cause for Concern Among UK IT Professionals

Following on the success of last year’s global report, KnowBe4 has today released the findings of ‘The 2020 What Keeps You Up at Night Report”. This year, KnowBe4 delves into the issues that specifically trouble UK-based organisations and IT experts, including attack types, security initiatives as well as organisational constraints. An in-depth analysis examined just how prepared these organisations are in managing such cyber threats, risks and concerns. The report compiled information gathered from...

Unsecured Internet-facing database attracts hackers in a matter of hours

by Beth Smith

June 10, 2020

Unsecured Internet-facing database attracts hackers in a matter of hours

You only have to read the news on this very website to find countless stories of instances where companies have inadvertently left a database exposed on the web - it’s every security professional’s worst nightmare. Researchers at Comparitech, who will often be the source of finding these misconfigured databases to alert the unsuspecting company, decided to set up a honeypot experiment to see just how little time it would take before such a database...

UK Fears Cybercriminals Will Use NHSX COVID-19 Tracing App to Launch Cyber Attacks

by Sabina

May 27, 2020

Nearly half (48%) of the UK public surveyed about the NHSX COVID-19 tracing app do not trust the UK government to keep their information safe from hackers. This is according to a study carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions. The nation-wide survey, released today, examined consumer attitudes to the proposed tracing app, particularly their confidence and wider trust in the government to appropriately and justly handle the data collected for the scheme. Other major findings from the report include: Around 43% of respondents were...

Securonix Insider Threat Report:

by Joel

May 21, 2020

A brand-new Insider Threat Report authored by Shareth Ben, director of insider threat and cyber threat analytics at Securonix has found that employees deemed “flight risks” are linked to around 60% of the insider threat incidents detected. Ben explained in the report that flight risks are those employees about to terminate employment with the company for various reasons and can be determined by Securonix’s advanced user behaviour analytics. The Securonix Threat Research Team analysed hundreds...

Commitment to strong security leads to business benefit, AT&T Cybersecurity and ESG Report Suggests

by SophieDowdell

May 20, 2020

As organisations rapidly adapt to a virtual business model and remote workforce, as a result of COVID-19, it has become even more challenging to identify and mitigate cyber threats. Therefore, the survival of a business, and its wider industry, could depends on its overall cybersecurity maturity and alignment to security best practises. AT&T Cybersecurity partnered with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in order to assess organisations’ postures across the five foundational cybersecurity functions of the NIST...

Untangling the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2020

by Sabina

May 22, 2020

Verizon published today its yearly Data Breach Investigation Report, based on real-world data from 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 data breaches provided by 73 data sources, both public and private entities, spanning 86 countries worldwide. The report provides a most useful snapshot of the current state of the fight against cybercrime, and highlights not only the weaknesses in organisations' approach to security, but also the areas where cybercriminals seem to be focussing their efforts. IT...

It’s Official! How You Present Yourself on Video Conferencing Could Have an Impact on Your Career

by Sabina

May 18, 2020

A new nationwide study commissioned by Eskenzi PR, a Queen’s award-winning Tech PR agency and carried out by OnePoll, examined how video conferencing has changed workers’ perception of their colleagues. The results, announced today, have found that nearly half (40%) of UK workers judge their colleagues on how their house looks over video conferencing. Fortunately, of those who admit letting the appearance of their co-workers' houses influence their opinion of them, 28% say they now view their co-workers...

60% of Brits Foresee Shift Towards Remote Working Post-Covid-19

by SophieDowdell

May 14, 2020

Covid-19 has radically altered almost every aspect of day-to-day life in hundreds of nations: Socialising, working, travelling and exercising have all been impacted. But once the initial shock of the pandemic is brought under control, how will our worlds change long term? According to a new survey, remote working is one element which organisations should consider here to stay. The global survey commissioned by identity and access management solution OneLogin, six out of ten people...

Two-thirds of remote workers given no cybersecurity training from employers in the past year

by Joel

April 23, 2020

Cybersecurity continues to be a challenge for businesses of all sizes, especially as workers are shifting to a remote workforce globally. According to recent research by Promon, the Oslo-based mobile security company which last year revealed flaws in the Home Office’s Brexit app, two-thirds of remote workers in the UK have not been given any cybersecurity training from employers in the past 12 months, while 77% say they aren’t worried about their cybersecurity while working remotely....

Executives Believe Employees are the Greatest Threat to Critical Infrastructure Security According to Nozomi Networks

by Sabina

March 25, 2020

21M Mixcloud Users Compromised from Data Breach

Over 400 C-level executives from critical infrastructure organisations across North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific were surveyed in a report sponsored in part by Nozomi Networks titled “Weathering the Perfect Storm: Securing the Cyber-Physical Systems of Critical Infrastructure”. The report found that most (88%) critical infrastructure organisations have, or are currently, integrating their IT, OT, IoT and physical systems, and one in five respondents (20%) added that their systems are fully integrated with externally accessible systems....