One in five UK businesses suffered a cyber attack in the past year
One in five businesses have fallen victim to cyber attacks in the past year, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). The survey of more than 1,200 businesses …
Fake LinkedIn emails phishing job seekers
Fake LinkedIn emails are hitting inboxes, trying to get recipients to hand over their CVs. The scammers are trying to impersonate the popular employment-oriented social …
Threat hunting still maturing and mostly ad-hoc
Threat hunting is becoming an integral part of defensive activities in larger enterprises or those that have been heavily targeted in the past, according to a new SANS survey. …
38% of consumers affected by ransomware pay up
Consumers are increasingly being targeted with ransomware, and many of them are paying up, according to Trustlook. Since the beginning of 2016, ransomware has gone from a …
Photos: HITBSecConf Amsterdam 2017
The always exciting Hack In The Box conference took place last week in Amsterdam. Groundbreaking security research was disclosed during the event, which also featured a free …
Rules for secure coding in the C++ programming language
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has released the 2016 edition of the SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard. The standard provides rules for secure coding in the C++ …
Week in review: Leaked Windows exploits, mobile payment card cloning
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Microsoft patched the flaws allowing leaked Windows exploits to work Microsoft has …
Microsoft patched the flaws allowing leaked Windows exploits to work
Microsoft has patched the vulnerabilities that allowed nine of the exploits released by the Shadow Brokers on Friday to work, and said that of the three remaining exploits, …
Why businesses should care about identity theft
Identity theft is a type of fraud that’s directed squarely against individuals, but to believe that businesses don’t suffer any consequences or costs associated …
Finally, enterprise-wide encryption strategies increase!
New research by the Ponemon Institute captures how organizations around the world are dealing with compliance, increased threats, and the implementation of encryption to …
Pressures security professionals face have become more personal
While 53% of security professionals report increased pressure in trying to secure their organization, there has been a shift in the source of this stress, according to …
SAP closes critical vulnerability affecting TREX
SAP closed a critical vulnerability for an issue that was exposed for almost two years. The vulnerability (SAP Security Note 2419592) affects TREX, a SAP NetWeaver standalone …
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