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Photo: A walk through Cyber Security Europe 2015
Taking place in London this week, Cyber Security Europe 2015 features seminars and solutions on all facets of cyber security and risk mitigation, from perimeter firewalls to …
The average cost of cybercrime escalates to $15 million per organization
A new study by the the Ponemon Institute and HP reveales a dramatic increase in the overall cost of cyber crime. The 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study quantifies the annual cost …
How are businesses responding to cyber risks?
Year after year, cyberattacks continue to escalate in frequency, severity and impact. However, prevention, detection methods and cybersecurity innovation are on the rise as …
The impact of digital business on information security
Changes in computing fabric, devices and services formed by digital business continue to shape risk and security landscapes, according to Gartner. By year-end 2017, more than …
Wealth of personal data found on used electronics purchased online
Varying amounts and types of residual data have been found on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and …
The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
Volkswagen didn’t make a faulty car: they programmed it to cheat intelligently. The difference isn’t semantics, it’s game-theoretical (and it borders on applied demonology). …
How attackers attempt to infect organizations
A new report by Palo Alto Networks, based on data from more than 7,000 enterprises worldwide, showcases real-world trends in enterprise application usage and critical …
High prevalence of personal health information at risk
The healthcare and life sciences vertical is responsible for 76.2 percent of all cloud data loss prevention (DLP) policy violations among the billions of total app instances …
Winnti group’s attack platform is based on decade old malware
“Kaspersky Lab experts tracking the activity of the Winnti group have discovered an active threat based on a 2006 bootkit installer. The threat, which they name HDRoot …
It’s not just about Big Data, it’s what you do with it
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry is being driven by digital …
Applying machine learning techniques on contextual data for threat detection
The momentum behind cloud computing couldn’t be stronger as companies, governments and other organizations move to the cloud to lower costs and improve agility. However, you …
Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks
Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade …
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