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Does the UK need to do more to address the threat of nuclear terrorism?

The emotive nature of linking nuclear and terrorism in the same sentence leads to understandably visceral responses as we all seek to protect ourselves and our loved ones from …

Week in review: Windows 10 security, developing honeypots, IoT security holes

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles:Brain’s reaction to certain words could replace passwordsYou might not …

Malware attacks give criminals 1,425% return on investment

Trustwave released a new report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2014. They gathered the data from 574 breach investigations the …

Instilling a culture of cyber security

Every company that sells cyber security technology markets how their tools will “defend”, “stop threats” and “protect”. There is no doubt that the technologies that exist …

Privacy profession: An equal playing field for men and women?

In the midst of the public debate around the lingering gender gap in salary and professional achievement, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) …

FIRST announces CVSS version 3

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has announced the availability of version 3 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The new system is the …

DDoS attacks now resemble APTs

DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, …

IT admin errors that lead to network downtime and data loss

Kroll Ontrack today released its most recent list of common IT administrator errors that can lead to data loss and network downtime. The findings indicate that the complexity …

Microsoft releases critical patches, improves IE security

This June Patch Tuesday we have a slightly smaller patch load from Microsoft, taking us back to more historic average releases of eight bulletins. We have just two critical …

49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe

Yesterday, a joint international operation led to the dismantling of a group of cybercriminals active in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia, who are …

Swift adoption of cloud and mobile drives insider threats

Bitglass surveyed 500 IT and security practitioners and found that 62 percent have seen an increase in insider threats over the last 12 months.As more data leaves the network …

Massive growth in new ransomware, malware targeting Adobe Flash

“In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs registered a 165 percent increase in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware family, a …

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