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Ransomware returns!
Reports of the demise of ransomware have been grossly exaggerated: businesses have to redouble their defences as new variants become ever more devious. By James Hayes.
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Study reveals scale of conflict business leaders are subjected to when technology disruption hits their business.
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Securing Industry 4.0
To meet their fullest potential, Industry 4.0 programmes must now apply holistic cyber-savvy thinking to all aspects of the industrial processes to be digitally transformed.
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Top managers being increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches – correlating to a rise of social-engineering attacks with ruthless financial motivation.
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Senior-level executives at some of the UK’s biggest companies still do not fully understand the potential impact of a cyber attack according to a report from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.
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More than 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the European Economic Area by public and private organisations since the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – came into force back on 25th May 2018.
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New study sets out awareness of vulnerability as a major problem among many senior executives, despite IT innovation and warnings.
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Security heads say operational/productivity loss and negative customer experience and data theft are now primary impacts of cyber attacks – 86% looking at AI/ML to aid fightback.
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Internet of Things – IoT – devices are have become cyber criminals’ top attack target, and now surpass web and application services, and email servers as attack targets.
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Respondents to Ponemon/Tenable survey say their security function ‘lacks adequate staffing’ to scan for vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
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Verizon to launch subscription-based Threat Intelligence Platform to track attacks trending across its IP backbone network.
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Sectors such as healthcare have a driving need for action in IT security – and are also doing more than other industries to increase their investments in better protected IT infrastructure, according to new research from the it-sa 2018 IT security expo and congress (October 9-11, Nuremberg).