Cloud anti-DDoS vendor, Link11, has released its DDoS findings for Q4 2018, revealing that the volume and complexity of attacks continued to grow in Europe during the final quarter of 2018. While Link11’s Security Operations Center (LSOC) registered 13,910 attacks in Q4 (12.7% down compared to Q3), the average attack volume grew by 8.7% to […]

Equinix, a leading global interconnection and data centre company, has announced the findings of an independent survey of more than 1,200 senior IT professionals from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Results show that more than seven in 10 (71%) organisations are likely to move more of their business functions to the cloud in the coming years. […]

Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, has announced that the rush to Digital Transformation is putting sensitive data at risk for organisations worldwide. That is according to the company’s 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Global Edition with research and analysis from IDC. As organisations embrace new technologies, such as multi-cloud […]

The majority of UK IT security professionals feel they’re suffering from an image problem among fellow workers, according to new research commissioned by Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions for more than 10,000 organisations worldwide. Nearly two thirds of respondents (63%) feel that their security teams are either viewed as the company […]

Veracode’s latest State of Software Security report (SoSS) has revealed financial services is one of the slowest industries when it comes to addressing common vulnerabilities found in software. The global report found financial services companies took 29 days to address a quarter of their vulnerabilities in coding – and over a year – 573 days – to […]

While many of us have heard of – or even fallen victim to – cybercrimes such as data and identity theft, it seems that relatively few know the value of the information stolen from us. A new study from Kaspersky Lab has revealed that while our identity may not be worth a lot in terms of dollars, […]

New research from F5 Labs has revealed that IoT devices are now cybercriminals’ top attack target, surpassing web and application services, and email servers. Gartner currently estimates that the number of IoT devices will surge to 20.4 billion by 2020, which represents a staggering 143% growth rate over three years. “IoT devices already outnumber people […]

The global outbreak of malicious cryptocurrency mining that unfolded in 2018 saw the number of attacks increase by more than 83%, with more than five million users attacked online in the first three quarters of the year compared to 2.7 million over the same period in 2017. The major driver behind the crypto gold rush […]

The time of unrestrained shopping has already begun, thanks to Black Friday in November. This is swiftly followed by Christmas and New Year gift giving, and then the January sales. But Kaspersky Lab is warning shoppers that cybercriminals targeting banking credentials or online shopping accounts could hit the jackpot this holiday season. As revealed in Kaspersky […]

There has been an unprecedented number of cyberattacks and the malware count has reached an all-time in high in 2018, according to Kaspersky Lab. The vendor’s solutions repelled almost two billion attacks launched from online resources and detected more than 21 million unique malicious objects from around the world in 2018. Its statistics show that, […]