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To help companies mitigate risks associated with an increasingly connected world, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, is rolling out a new security testing program …

Applications have become the heart of many businesses, with millions of dollars allocated to their development and millions of dollars in revenue associated with their …

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed more phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2016 than at any other time in history. According to a new report, the total …

$405.3 billion, that’s the Digital Value at Stake (VaS) retail banks have the potential to realize from 2015 to 2017. Yet, in 2015, financial services as a whole captured just …

As of today, businesses have just two years to become compliant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or risk major fines. Businesses will need to take adequate …

Data Loss Prevention has evolved beautifully in the last few years. The measure of control that DLP now provides is extremely powerful, and helps organizations from all …

Vormetric announced the results of the European Edition of the 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report. It focuses on responses from IT security leaders in European organisations, …

A new study reveals almost half (43%) of connected consumers today do not know what ransomware is, despite the recent aggressive spread of this type of cyber threat. In …

Instead of just encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a …

More CIOs report directly to the CEO (34 percent) than at any time in the past decade, rising 10 percent over last year, according to the 2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey. …

While employee-related security risks are the number-one concern for security professionals, organizations are not taking adequate steps to prevent negligent employee …

In May 2016, the Special Investigations team at Forcepoint revealed the existence of a botnet campaign that is unique in targeting a very small number of individuals while in …