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Hybrid work models and broadly adopted cloud technology disperse operations extensively; data is moved, stored, and accessed from highly distributed locations. Within such a disseminated environment, cybersecurity hygiene concerns businesses and organisations, especially nowadays, where highly skilled cybercriminals become more active, and their attacks are predicted to intensify further and increase the cost at a 15% annual rate. In today's digital age, every business, no matter its size, faces increasing cybersecurity threats, including the risk...

I don’t typically like awards; let’s be honest, more often than not, they’re pay to play – and most of us see them for what they are!   It begs the question; how come we ended up running an award that literally makes no money and takes a huge amount of time to organise for the heroes that work for me - Beth Smith and Nicole Sigrist?   It’s because there have never been any...

With 12 years of years of patented development and IP innovation, this week, Centripetal announced the launch of CleanINTERNET® CLOUD. The expansion aims to extend protection to enterprise assets anywhere - whether on premises, remote or in the cloud. CleanINTERNET® leverages dynamic threat intelligence from more than 250 threat intelligence providers in real-time, proactively shielding networks from 99% of known threats. Businesses are seeing significant value from the transition of key resources into the cloud....

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...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q1 2023 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the shift to IT and online service notifications such as laptop refresh or account suspension notifications that can affect end users’ daily work. Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common methods to effectively perpetuate malicious attacks on organizations around the globe. Cybercriminals...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2023 are back for a tenth successive year. This year’s sponsors include KnowBe4, provider of the leading security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Keeper Security, the leading provider of cloud-based zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, privileged access, secrets and connections. The awards are committed to celebrating the industry’s best bloggers, vloggers, podcasters and social media influencers.   Nominations are open now and the event will take...

The UK has announced a ban on TikTok on government phones, becoming the latest country to have banned the Chinese-owned video app over raised security concerns. The microscope has been on TikTok in recent months and has come under increased scrutiny due to fear is that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance could end up in the hands of the Chinese government. The ban is in place with immediate effect following...

When you think of cybersecurity threats, what comes to mind? If you pictured faceless criminals (or a team of them) in a dimly-lit headquarters working tirelessly to steal your most precious digital assets, you’re not alone. Yet, cybercrime doesn’t always look like a scene from a Hollywood movie.   Sometimes, cyber threats are closer to home, making them all the more surprising (and frustrating) for many organizations. They’re called insider threats, and you need to...

A new global study has looked into how SOC's go about protecting organisations from threats, where they focus the most attention and what is driving modernisation plans. Cybereason's latest report Ransomware and the Modern SOC: How Ransomware is Driving the Requirements for SOC Modernization, surveyed 1,203 security professionals from eight countries and a dozen industries, and found more than 58% said their SOC spends most of its time responding to ransomware and supply chain attacks...

Security experts are warning consumers of two new scams that are circulating in the wild which are taking advantage of the buzz and hype surrounding HBO's new adaption of the popular video game franchise The Last Of US. Technology expert Prateek Jha from VPNOverview.com initiated the warning which has also been supported by Kaspersky. Kaspersky researchers shared with VPNOverview details of two separate campaigns — a scam designed to inject PCs with malware and a phishing...