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Scary Security Stats From 2019
Arkose Labs · Over half of all logins (53%) on social media sites are fraudulent and 25% of all new account applications on social media are fraud (source: Arkose Labs Q3 ...
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People Lose 31,200 Photos’ Worth Of Hard Drive Space Each Year By Not Cleaning Their PCs
52GB of digital “crap” on average accumulates on consumer PCs every year Piriform Software Ltd., a global leader in system optimization software, has found that up to 52GB of ‘digital ...
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Verizon’s Incident Preparedness And Response Report Urges Businesses To ‘Be Prepared, Be Proactive And Practice, Practice, Practice’
Incident Response Plans require frequent workouts to be fit for purpose NEW YORK - Businesses are more aware than ever of how cybercrime could impact their reputation, and their bottom line. Annual reports ...
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New LogMeIn Central Report Reveals Seven Trends & Threats Facing SMB IT
Research finds implementing RMM solution saves IT professionals ~$50,000 per year Central by LogMeIn today released its findings of a new global report, “Uncovering the Latest IT Trends, Threats, & ROI ...
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August 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: Echobot Launches Widespread Attack Against IoT Devices
Check Point’s researchers also report the Emotet botnet has been reactivated Check Point Research has published its latest Global Threat Index for August 2019. The Research team is warning organizations ...
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Proofpoint’s Annual Human Factor Report Details Top Cybercriminal Trends: More Than 99 Percent Of Cyberattacks Need Humans To Click
Threat actors continue to use socially-engineered attacks across email, cloud applications, and social media to exploit human instincts and lure people to click Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and ...
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Brexit Cyber Threat: MPs Hit With 2 Million Scam Emails Every Month
MPs and House of Commons staff were hit with 20,973,102 cyber attacks through spam emails in the most recent financial year, according to official figures. The data, released under the freedom ...
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Social Media Apps Biggest Security Threat To Enterprises
New survey reveals which applications security professionals believe are worst at spreading malware A new study from Gigamon has revealed that 17 percent of organisations are adding as many ten new ...
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37% Of Organisations Have Suffered A Cyberattack On Cloud Environments Due To The Lack Of Basic Cloud Security Hygiene
New study reveals 42 percent of organisations are concerned about cloud security but many fail to carry out any security testing on the environment With the recent exposure of a ...
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July 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: Vulnerability In OpenDreamBox 2.0.0 WebAdmin Plugin Enables Attackers To Execute Commands Remotely
Check Point’s researchers confirm that the vulnerability has impacted 32% of organizations globally in the last month Check Point Research has published its latest Global Threat Index for July 2019 ...
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New Android App Vulnerabilities Disclosed
Comparitech recemtly released results of their tests on 21 popular, free Android antivirus apps, which found serious vulnerabilities. They looked at the application itself, its effectiveness, the web management dashboard, and ...
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Many CEOs Falsely Led To Believe Company Is GDPR Compliant
Insights gathered by Delphix reveals that companies are not masking sensitive data Delphix, the data virtualisation platform, has found that companies in the UK are leading their CEO to believe they compliant with GDPR ...
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2019 CyberScout Global Insights Report Finds That Ransomware Continues to Be a Major Cyber Threat and Provides Tips For Business And Consumers To Guard Against Hacks And ID Theft
From rising identity theft and fraud to large-scale enterprise breaches, the news in 2018 was full of cybersecurity nightmares. With cyber incidents now commonplace, consumers have become fed up and ...
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Study Finds 92 Per Cent Of Businesses Experience Identity Challenges
LastPass by LogMeIn today announced the results of a new study conducted by Vanson Bourne to offer businesses insights into the state of identity and access management (IAM) and actionable steps to ...
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AI For Fraud Detection To Triple By 2021
Advanced analytics and biometrics becoming central to anti-fraud programmes, reveWhile only 13 per cent of organisations use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to detect and deter fraud, another 25 per cent plan ...
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Positive Technologies Experts: 5G Launches With Security Flaws
Report Outlines Inherited and New Threats in the Network as 5G Launches Worldwide Positive Technologies has released its report 5G Network Security: Vulnerabilities Old and New, which outlines some of the greatest risks ...
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Survey: Organisations Increase Risk With Over Reliance On Cloud Vendors For Security
CyberArk Report Shows 70 Percent of UK Organisations Rely Primarily on Cloud Providers to Protect Their Workloads According to a new CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) survey, as organisations increasingly move critical applications, regulated customer data and development work ...
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(ISC)2 Research Report Indicates That Small Businesses May Not Be The Weakest Link In The Supply Chain
Study reveals that cybersecurity staffing and best practices are bigger factors than company size in assessing security risk associated with supply chain partners (ISC)² – the world’s largest nonprofit association ...
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Okta Research Shows Workers Are Ready To Go Passwordless This Year
Okta’s Passwordless Future Report finds: 78% of all respondents admit to using insecure methods to help them remember passwords 69% of UK workers feel stressed or annoyed as a result of forgetting a ...
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Nozomi Networks-Sponsored SANS Survey Finds Industrial Organizations Are Going All-In To Tackle Growing Threats To OT/ICS Cyber Security
Citrix, a company which works with the likes of the FBI and US military, recently hit the headlines when it fell victim to hackers. The cyber criminals allegedly used a technique called ...
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World’s Top Security Vulnerabilities Revealed – HackerOne
HackerOne is revealing the top 10 most impactful security vulnerabilities which have earned hackers over $54 million in bounties. Based on the 120,000+ security vulnerabilities that hackers have reported across over ...
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Report Reveals Website Security Risk For Australian & NZ Firms
New research has found 87% of SME websites using the Magento platform are currently at high risk from cyber attacks. By contrast, under 10% of websites using other major e-commerce platforms ...
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Consumers Reluctant To Swap Psswords For Biometrics For Fear Of Identity Fraud
Paysafe launches new global research into consumer payment trends Over half of consumers (56 percent) are worried that the shift to biometrics to authenticate online payments will dramatically increase the amount ...
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New Study Reveals Cybercrime May Be Widely Underreported—Even When Laws Mandate Disclosure
ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity Report Also Finds Only 1 in 3 Organizations Highly Confident in Their Ability to Detect and Respond to Threats Stand out data from this portion ...
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Tripwire Report: 1 In 4 Organisations Breached Because Of Unpatched Vulnerabilities
New findings evaluate how organisations are managing vulnerability risks Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organisations, today announced the release of ...
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Organisations See Huge Rise In Encryption Implementation Following GDPR Enforcement
More than half of organisations enforce encryption of data on all mobile devices and removable media Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, today announced findings from a survey highlighting ...
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