A UK Government-funded cybersecurity programme is warning young people about the dangers of ‘re-data-ships’, after revealing nearly half (45%) of the people surveyed have shared passwords and PINs with boyfriends and girlfriends. To halt the rising trend of these ‘re-data-ships’, Cyber Discovery has worked with its top security experts to create a guide for young […]

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 […]

Darron Gibbard, Chief Technical Security Officer, Qualys, looks back at the cloud security space in 2018 and urges CIOs and CISOs to collaborate and develop new approaches to business.  Over the next few years, spending on cloud will continue to expand at around 20% per year until 2021, according to Goldman Sachs. This will see the […]

Construction work will start on a new £9million Centre for Cyber Security in Hereford, UK, in the new year – bringing up to 190 high-value jobs and making the region a magnet for high-tech firms. Plans for the ambitious project cleared a critical hurdle after Herefordshire Council approved the launch of a new joint venture […]

Ray Kafity, Vice President, Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Attivo Networks, discusses why a prevention-only defence is no longer enough to ensure data and patients are safe from cybercriminals.  No industry is immune to hacking. In this digital age, no organisation can be considered as entirely safe from cybercriminals. As organisations invest in transformational technologies […]

Phil Richards, CSO, Ivanti, discusses the growing threat of cryptojacking, what it means for the landscape of enterprise security solutions and what organisations need to do in order to face the problem head-on. As we look back at 2018, one of the major topics and trends that dominated the news headlines was cryptocurrency. The digital […]

Sergey Ozhegov, Chief Executive Officer at SearchInform, discusses fraud management, information security, data leakage and insider activity. The growing number of corporate fraud cases concern competent risk management and information security officers. According to PwC’s 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, 49% of companies worldwide have been victims of fraud and economic crime. That […]

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 […]

Shifting budgets and responsibilities require IT and physical security teams to consider fundamental change in day-to-day operations, says Luc Merredew, Product Marketing Director, at HID Global. Physical security professionals have long suspected a shift toward increased involvement of the IT department in physical access control and this is supported with recent research from a survey […]

Threat hunting is a critical discipline. But how do you do it methodically and consistently to drive success? Here, Tim Bandos, VP of Cyber Security, Digital Guardian, introduces threat hunting frameworks, teaches an organisation how to get started with it and how to implement high-fidelity techniques for advanced threat hunting. Cyberthreat hunting is a critical […]