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Research Reveals Dramatic Increase In People Encountering Online Scams Whilst Working From Home During The Coronavirus Crises

Some 26% of people claim they have seen an increase in the level of online scams and phishing attacks they face since they started working from home during the Coronavirus ...
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financial data

Data And Financial Loss Biggest Cyber Fear For Locked Down UK Householders

60% of people working from home due to COVID-19 believe they are more susceptible to cyber attack as they are online more  Amsterdam – UK householders confined to their home and ...
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What businesses can learn from the Holborn outage

Expert On Research: One Third Of Businesses Axe IT Staff Due To Covid-19 Cost Concerns

New global poll from Leonne International of over 1,000 business decision-makers reveals that over one third of companies have axed IT staff and half have cut IT Budgets due to ...
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(IoT) will Fail if Security has no Context

Financial Services Organisations Increasingly Prone To Authentication And DDoS Attacks

F5 Labs assesses three years of Security Incident Response Team data Financial services organisations have experienced a significant increase in the number of authentication and distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
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NHS Contact Tracing App Can Be A Success If Linked To Testing, Study Finds

NHS Contact Tracing App Can Be A Success If Linked To Testing, Study Finds

Study recommends NHS in charge of app, with priority access to testing for those alerted and/or with symptoms It is possible to implement a privacy-respecting contact tracing app that can ...
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Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

A new variant of Russian malware tricks mobile users into encrypting their files, then impersonates the FBI to force ransom payments, accusing the user of downloading illegal pornographic content Malware is downloaded and installed via social ...
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Security of your Android Devices

Ransomware Goes Mobile – New Android Ransomware Fabricates Notes From FBI

A new variant of Russian malware tricks mobile users into encrypting their files, then impersonates the FBI to force ransom payments, accusing the user of downloading illegal pornographic content Malware is downloaded and installed via social ...
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Imperva Releases Seventh Annual Bad Bot Report; Uncovers Nearly A Quarter Of Overall Website Traffic Driven By Bad Bots

Imperva Releases Seventh Annual Bad Bot Report; Uncovers Nearly A Quarter Of Overall Website Traffic Driven By Bad Bots

Financial services industry hit hardest by bad bots, making up almost half of overall website traffic; Russia origin of most blocked attacks Imperva, Inc., today released its annual report titled: ...
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Apple Is Most Imitated Brand For Phishing: Check Point Research’s Q1 2020 Brand Phishing Report

Apple Is Most Imitated Brand For Phishing: Check Point Research’s Q1 2020 Brand Phishing Report

Check Point’s researchers highlight Yahoo! as most imitated brand for email-based phishing, and Netflix as the most imitated for mobile-based phishing attempts  Check Point Research has published its new Brand ...
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UK And Netherlands Most At Risk In Europe When Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities

UK And Netherlands Most At Risk In Europe When Mitigating Critical Vulnerabilities

New vulnerability research by Outpost24 has revealed interesting data trends in vulnerability management across different regions and sectors. When analysed, the number of high, medium and low-risk security vulnerabilities based ...
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Closing The Gender Gap In Cybersecurity Could Boost UK Economy By £12.6bn

Closing The Gender Gap In Cybersecurity Could Boost UK Economy By £12.6bn

New Tessian report reveals that perceptions around cybersecurity industry need to change to encourage more diversity Increasing the number of women working in cybersecurity could boost the UK economy by ...
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2020 Webroot Threat Report: Phishing Attempts Grew By 640% Last Year

2020 Webroot Threat Report: Phishing Attempts Grew By 640% Last Year

Webroot Also Observed a 125% Increase in Malware Targeting Windows 7®   OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX) today issued the 2020 Webroot Threat Report, highlighting not only the agility and innovation of cybercriminals who ...
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Data Love

52% Say Loneliness Around Valentine’s Day Makes Them Vulnerable To Catfishers, Research Reveals

ESET urges people to be vigilant when online dating, or risk falling for catfishers 41% of consumers believe that they face more cyber security risks when online dating around Valentine’s ...
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Security Professionals Anticipate Automation Will Reduce IT Security Headcount, But Not Replace Human Expertise

Security Professionals Anticipate Automation Will Reduce IT Security Headcount, But Not Replace Human Expertise

Today the Ponemon Institute, in partnership with DomainTools, announced the results of its annual "Staffing the IT Security Function in the Age of Automation" report. The survey of more than ...
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Zoom Updates Security As Eavesdrop Hack Discovered By Check Point Research

Zoom Updates Security As Eavesdrop Hack Discovered By Check Point Research

Hackers could eavesdrop on scores of Zoom Meetings by generating and verifying Zoom Meeting IDs; Zoom rolls out a series of security changes to fix flaws  Check Point Research identified ...
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Bitglass 2019 Financial Breach Report: More Than 60% Of All Leaked Records In Past Year Exposed By Financial Services Firms

Bitglass 2019 Financial Breach Report: More Than 60% Of All Leaked Records In Past Year Exposed By Financial Services Firms

Hacking and Malware Cause 75% of all Data Breaches in the Financial Services Industry  Bitglass, the Next-Gen Cloud Security company, today released its 2019 Financial Breach Report: The Financial Matrix. Each ...
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Malware Variety Grows By 13.7% In 2019 Due To Web Skimmers

Malware Variety Grows By 13.7% In 2019 Due To Web Skimmers

In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky’s web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year — reaching 24,610,126. This growth was mainly influenced ...
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Cybereason’s Nocturnus Researchers Discover Widescale Hacking Operation Targeting Financial Institutions In The United States And Europe

Cybereason’s Nocturnus Researchers Discover Widescale Hacking Operation Targeting Financial Institutions In The United States And Europe

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today released an investigative research report from its Nocturnus Research Group titled ‘Dropping Anchor: From a TrickBot Infection to the Discovery of the ...
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How To Steal $1 Million By Email: Check Point Researchers Detail Million-dollar Fraud Against Chinese VC Firm

How To Steal $1 Million By Email: Check Point Researchers Detail Million-dollar Fraud Against Chinese VC Firm

A series of spoofed emails enabled a Hong Kong-based hacker to make off with a million dollars Researchers at leading cyber-security company Check Point have revealed how Chinese hackers were ...
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Online Shoppers In The UK At Risk Of Email Fraud This Black Friday And Cyber Monday

Online Shoppers In The UK At Risk Of Email Fraud This Black Friday And Cyber Monday

60 percent of the UK’s top ten online retailers are not actively blocking fraudulent emails from reaching customers Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT) a leading cyber security and compliance company, today released research identifying that only ...
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Security Professionals Anxious About 5G - AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Security At The Speed Of 5G

Security Professionals Anxious About 5G – AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Security At The Speed Of 5G

Is your business ready for 5G security threats? That is the question that AT&T Cybersecurity answers in its latest Cybersecurity Insights Report: Security at the Speed of 5G. The extensive research ...
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Healthcare Organisations Suffer one Cyberattack per month

Threat Spotlight: Cyberattacks Against Schools

A new school year is underway, and cyberattacks against schools are increasing dramatically. This year has already seen almost as many incidents as the previous two years combined, according to Barracuda ...
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Prepare For A New Cyber Cold War In 2020, Warns Check Point

Prepare For A New Cyber Cold War In 2020, Warns Check Point

Leading cyber-security vendor predicts nation-state sponsored cyber-attacks will escalate against governments, critical infrastructure and high-profile businesses as international tensions increase  Check Point has unveiled its cyber-security predictions for 2020.  They ...
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Protect Against Insider Threats

Leading iOS & Android Travel Apps Fail Security And Privacy Tests

Zimperium is releasing a new piece of research today which investigates 30 of the world’s leading travel applications to understand how they manage users’ security and privacy risks. The data is based ...
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Social Exposure: Examining The Underlying Insecurities In The Future Of Robotics

Social Exposure: Examining The Underlying Insecurities In The Future Of Robotics

The social influence of robots on people and the insecurities this can bring should not be underestimated. Research conducted by Kaspersky and Ghent University has found that robots can effectively ...
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FireEye - Email Threat Report Summary

FireEye – Email Threat Report Summary

FireEye at Cyber Defense Summit announced the release of its latest email threat update. The analysis of more than two billion emails is visually depicted within their new infographic (these findings are the ...
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