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Webroot, the Smarter Cybersecurity® company, revealed the results of the 2019 Webroot Threat Report, showcasing that while tried-and-true attack methods are still going strong, new threats emerge daily, and new vectors are being tested by cybercriminals. The report is derived from metrics captured and analysed by Webroot’s advanced, cloud-based machine learning architecture: the Webroot® Platform. Notable Findings: 40 percent of malicious URLs were found on good domains. Legitimate websites are frequently compromised to host malicious...

BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, today announced the availability of BitSight Peer Analytics, the latest Security Performance Management offering on the BitSight platform. Leveraging the world’s most trusted and comprehensive view of security performance across hundreds of thousands of global organisations, BitSight Peer Analytics provides security and risk leaders unprecedented visibility into the relative performance of their security programs against their peers and sector. The solution enables organisations to meet and surpass their industry...

Managed services provider Memset welcomes the clear benefits to the security of SMEs in the UK, presented by the recommended rollout out of the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme. Endeavours such as this can help us succeed in driving out low-sophistication ‘commodity’ cyber-attacks from the UK. The Cybersecurity Research Group and Policy Institute at King’s College London recently published a report recommending rolling out ACD into the private sector – which was originally launched...

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that more than 120 companies have joined forces with Symantec to drive down the cost and complexity of cyber security, while improving response times to protect enterprises against sophisticated threats. This includes major players like AWS, Box, IBM Security, Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Splunk, as well as dozens of other technology innovators, who are now building or delivering more than 250 products and...

Becrypt, a trusted provider of endpoint cybersecurity software solutions announced today that its Disk Protect full-disk encryption product has been certified under the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) scheme. The renewal of this certification means that Becrypt’s Disk Protect product remains the only software-based full-disk encryption solution to successfully complete CPA, helping organisations with informed risk management for a range of data protection scenarios. Unlike other product assurance schemes, CPA validates...

The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) today launches the open call for its third cohort of cyber innovators. The new cohort will be tasked with solving some of the most pressing cybersecurity issues, as identified by industry leaders at LORCA’s Innovation Forum. Details of the application process and a full description of the challenges can be found at lorca.co.uk/apply. LORCA is one of two cyber innovation centres as part of the National Cyber...

It’s not a threat that everyone has heard of, like phishing or a computer virus, but IP spoofing is a rapidly accelerating problem. In the online gaming and gambling industries, IP spoofing attacks have increased by 257% year-on-year, making them both the fastest growing and the most prevalent cyber attack type in that area. They’re also a common choice of attack in mobile banking fraud. But what does IP spoofing actually involve, and are there...

Trust in Digital Life (TDL), a leading, independent cybersecurity membership association, will be taking a key role in the CyberSec4Europe project, announced today by the European Commission. CyberSec4Europe, worth 16 MEUR, will take place over a 3.5 year period and will bring together some of Europe’s leading research centres to work on innovative cybersecurity solutions including demonstration cases in finance, smart cities, healthcare and transport. The European Union (EU) is focused on ensuring that it...

Last week saw the official launch of WEDS (Women Empowering Diversity in Start-ups) – a UK network that has been founded by women that work in some of the UK’s most successful cybersecurity start-ups – Digital Shadows, Panaseer and Tessian. The launch took place at Digital Shadows headquarters with 60+ representatives from VC’s, accelerators and start-ups. It was sponsored by Garrison. There were a series of talks and a panel discussion with inclusion and diversity...

More than half (59 per cent) of respondents to the latest social media poll conducted by Infosecurity Europe 2019 – Europe’s number one information security event – believe that an attack on the UK’s critical national infrastructure is likely this year. As more devices, systems and infrastructure are connected to the internet, the cyber and physical worlds are becoming increasingly linked, opening up new attack vectors. According to Ciaran Martin, head of the UK's National...