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The chances of another company suffering the devastating effects of a Sony-style cyber attack are not remote, according to security researchers.   Jon Miller, a former hacker who now serves as vice president of strategy at Cylance, said that given the current security levels for most companies, 90 per cent of them would be vulnerable to such an attack. “There are probably a couple thousand, three, four, five-thousand people that could do attack today," Miller...

The new version of the Cybersecurity 500 has been released to now include 110 companies (22 per cent) listed outside of the US. With the largest numbers held in the UK (20 companies), Israel (16), Canada (13) and Germany (12), the global compilation of leading companies who provide cyber security solutions and services.are ranked by: Cybersecurity Sector (market category) Problem(s) solved Customer base Feedback from CISOs and decision makers Feedback from IT security evaluators and...

Global investment firm Marlin Equity Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions from General Dynamics. Set to create an independent advanced threat defense company that will be named “Fidelis Cybersecurity”, it will combine its product portfolio with its incident response team and threat research team. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Q2 2015. At that time, Peter George, who is currently president of General Dynamics...

F-Secure has launched Freedome for Business to help businesses secure BYOD and company-owned fleets of mobile devices. A corporate version of F-Secure’s Freedome app, the company said that it retains the consumer variant’s popular one-button interface, but adds a comprehensive set of business-oriented features to help companies protect their data and network security. The software integrates three different types of protection that are important for modern companies into a single, cloud-based security service: encrypted communications,...

More than one in three businesses (35 percent) are unable to fill open positions, yet 82 per cent expect a cyber attack. According to a study conducted by ISACA and RSA Conference of 649 cybersecurity and IT managers or practitioners, 77 per cent of those polled experienced an increase in attacks in 2014 and at the same time, these organisations are coping with a very shallow talent pool. Only 16 percent feel at least half...

Craig Hinkley has been named as the new CEO of WhiteHat Security. Replacing founder Jeremiah Grossman, who moves from the position of interim CEO to CTO, Hinkley brings more than 20 years of executive leadership in the technology sector having previously served as vice president and general manager of the LogLogic business unit for TIBCO Software. Previously he was general manager at Hewlett-Packard for the HP Networking Business in the Americas. Hinkley said: “WhiteHat has a...

Webroot has announced an integration of its BrightCloud IP Reputation Service with the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall. Webroot has extends the capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall by enabling organisations to seamlessly integrate highly accurate data from BrightCloud IP Reputation Service to detect and block malicious incoming Ips. Chad Kinzelberg, senior vice president of business and corporate development at Palo Alto Networks, said thar Webroot BrightCloud IP Reputation Service for Palo Alto Networks can help...

Corero Network Security has announced integration with Verisign OpenHybrid and support for Verisign’s open standards-based approach for hybrid DDoS solutions. For Verisign and Corero customers, the integration combines on-premises technology from Corero Network Security to defeat sub-saturating DDoS attacks, alongside cloud-based DDoS Protection Service from Verisign for high volume and complex application layer attacks that exceed the customer’s network and resource capacity. The architecture is designed to detect and respond to a large spectrum of...

Thousands of students who never even applied to Auburn University have had their personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed due to a security flaw. Information about 364,012 current, former and prospective students was accessible online between September 1st 2014, and March 2nd 2015. “The exposure resulted from configuration issues with a new device installed to replace a broken server,” a statement on the university website reads. “After securing our server, we implemented additional network...

Figures released today by Egress Software Technologies following an FOI request to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveal 173 law firms were investigated for breaches of the Data Protection Act in 2014. The research shows that a total of 187 incidents were recorded, and 26 per cent related to incorrect ‘disclosure of data’. In addition to this, 89 per cent of law firms used unencrypted email as the primary means of communication and 77 per...