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Adults admit logging into their partners social media accounts
New research reveals that one in four Brits will be sending a saucy message or photo to their other half. However, lovers might want to think twice before hitting send on …
Top ten points in the fight against cybercrime
At a summit of regulators and intelligence chiefs yesterday, the business secretary, Vince Cable, issued a timely warning to all in attendance of the vulnerability of …
Effective incident response
Organizations are bombarded with potential threats every day. Most of these are small and irritating, not truly critical – but among those needles are little threads of …
Every two seconds there’s a new victim of identity fraud
Javelin Strategy & Research reports an increase of more than 500,000 fraud victims to 13.1 million people in 2013. Account takeover fraud hit a new record in incidence …
How Edward Snowden’s actions impacted defense contractors
A new ThreatTrack Security study sheds light on the attitudes of a very exclusive group of IT and security managers – those employed by U.S. defense contractors – …
Insecure file sharing puts corporate data at risk
Personal email could be 2014’s biggest threat to corporate data. A new survey of more than 500 professionals by Globalscape found that in the past 12 months, 63 percent …
Police ransomware: A multimillion business
The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol published its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the …
Lack of skills hindering appsec programs
An ongoing shortage of skills in application security is severely hampering the implementation of effective Appsec programs, according to SANS. The 2014 Application Security …
Five lessons we can learn from financial services and compliance
Banks and financial services organisations have been a prime target for hackers for a very long time, and as a result of this the industry has had to adhere to security …
DDoS attacks used to influence stock prices
Prolexic Technologies shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber attackers are using DDoS attacks in an attempt to influence market values …
Most adults share intimate info via unsecured digital devices
McAfee examined how more than 1,500 consumers are sharing and storing intimate data on their mobile devices, especially with current or former significant others. Sharing …
Malware laden emails at five year high
This past month of January we saw a pretty incredible spike in virus traffic. Other unsolicited emails ebbed and flowed throughout the month resulting in a regular average …