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Ransomware is a big problem, but it’s also a big opportunity for MSPs to educate clients

While large-scale attacks such as WannaCry make headlines, ransomware attacks are just as likely to happen among small businesses as they are large enterprises. According to …

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Less than a third of companies have dedicated cybersecurity insurance

Only one third of senior executives in UK organisations admit their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial impact of data loss, …

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Data breach reports to Information Commissioner increase by 75%

The number of reports of data security incidents received by the Information Commissioner (ICO) has increased by 75 per cent over the past two years, according to new analysis …

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Number of smartphone users relying on software-only biometric security to grow 250%

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the biggest shift in mobile payment security will be the move towards software-based methods, which rely on standard …

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Week in review: Blocking compromised passwords, removing personal data from connected cars

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 0patch releases micropatch for Windows Task Scheduler zero-day Acros Security, the …

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0patch releases micropatch for Windows Task Scheduler zero-day

Earlier this week a security researcher that goes by “SandboxEscaper” published details and a PoC exploit for a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability …

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How lucrative is web-based cryptojacking?

1 out of 500 of the one million most visited websites according to Alexa contains a web-based cryptominer that starts mining as soon as the website has been opened in the …

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New infosec products of the week​: August 31, 2018

Moogsoft announces Observe expanding its AIOps platform capabilities Moogsoft Observe ingests time-series and metrics data in real-time and applies AI to detect incidents at …

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Wireshark can be crashed via malicious packet trace files

The Wireshark team has plugged three serious vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash vulnerable installations. According to Cisco …

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EU telecoms suffered 169 major security incidents in 2017

ENISA, EU’s agency for network and information security, has released a report on major telecom security incidents that occurred in the EU in 2017. About the report …

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The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots

Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term establishing itself into the modern lexicon. …

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80% of enterprises struggle to protect machine identities

Ninety-six percent of companies believe that effective protection of machine and human identities are equally important to the long-term security and viability of their …

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