RiskIQ, a global leader in attack surface management, has released its annual ‘Evil Internet Minute‘ report. The company tapped proprietary global intelligence and third-party research to analyse the volume of malicious activity on the Internet, revealing that cybercriminals cost the global economy £2.3 million every minute last year, a total of £1.2 trillion. The data […]

Skybox Security, a global leader in cybersecurity management, has announced the release of the mid-year update to its 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report, analysing the vulnerabilities, exploits and threats in play over the first half of 2019. The report, compiled by the team of security analysts at the Skybox Research Lab, aims to help organisations […]

Seventy-three percent of breaches now involve stolen passwords, more than half of which (60%) are able to be cracked by hackers through simple guesswork, a new nine-month penetration testing study by Rapid7 has found. Despite the huge amount of user training about the importance of strong unique passwords, Rapid7 penetration testers were able to crack […]

The most common factors holding back security awareness programmes in companies are the lack of time and staff rather than budget, although nearly 60% of the professionals surveyed say they are not even aware of the budget allocated to security awareness in their companies. These are some of the key findings of the 2019 Security […]

Secureworks has announced the findings of a research report which analysed more than a thousand incident response engagements throughout 2018. The incidents observed by Secureworks and explored fully in the Incident Response Insights Report 2019 revealed that organisations are making the same fundamental security mistakes year on year – despite several high profile fines and […]

A scam to defraud thousands of UK citizens using a fake email address spoofing a UK airport was one of a wide range of cyberattacks successfully prevented by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a report has revealed. Details of the criminal campaign are just one case study of many in Active Cyber Defence – The […]

Corin Imai, Senior Security Advisor at DomainTools, outlines the current perception of automation and AI among cybersecurity professionals across the globe, according to the findings of a recent study, and contextualises the predictions that emerged. The speed at which technology has been evolving over past decades is enough to justify the fear, deeply embedded in […]

Check Point and Cybersecurity Insiders have released the results of a global Cloud Security Report highlighting the challenges faced by enterprise security operations teams in protecting their public cloud data, systems and services. While public cloud providers expand their security services to protect their platforms, it is ultimately the customers’ responsibility to secure their data […]

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, has announced the findings of its global survey, The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, which reveals IT managers are inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date technology. The survey […]

Businesses are putting themselves at increased risk of losing data, by not curbing the actions of current and former employees. A total of 25% of workers in South Africa still have access to files and documents from a previous employer, putting the integrity of data and company livelihood at risk, according to the Sorting out […]