Internet Security

On 26-27 March, Europol hosted a joint meeting of the EC3 Advisory Groups on Financial Services, Internet Security and Communication Providers, gathering 70 industry representatives to discuss the cyber threat of phishing. Over the course of the two days, global financial institutions, Internet security companies…

The 2018 Unisys Security Index, a leading security barometer which surveys over 1,000 UK citizens, has revealed identity theft to be the top worry among them, with 56% of respondent registering that they were very or extremely concerned. Concerns over identity theft have eclipsed those…

Criminal tactics used to access user credentials are growing in prevalence and sophistication. That’s according to the findings of WatchGuard’s latest quarterly Internet Security Report, which explores computer and network security threats affecting SMBs and distributed enterprises. The findings also show that a record 47%…

RiskIQ, a leader in the sphere of digital threat management, has completed the acquisition of brand threat project management company Maccabim.com Ltd and subsequently appointed Jonathan Matkowsky, the latter’s founder, to the role of vice-president of Intellectual Property and brand security. With the acquisition of…

Gigamon Inc has revealed the results of a new iGov survey that examines the IT security threats and challenges facing the UK public sector. The survey was completed by IT and security professionals from 172 public sector organisations across local Government, the NHS and the higher/further…

A survey conducted by Nexsan (the unified storage solutions company) at Cloud Expo has revealed that data security and download speeds are the top two barriers to a truly connected workforce. The survey highlights that 98% of end users need to work remotely or collaboratively, with nearly two thirds…

Remember the Apple iCloud hack of late 2014 involving photos of celebrities? The lurid details have been exhaustively documented elsewhere so let’s not dwell on them here. What, though, should your organisation take away from that particular episode in terms of security posture? As Ryan Kalember asserts,…

In November last year, the Ashley Madison website boldly claimed that it was ‘the last truly secure space on the Internet’, states Chris Russell. Come July this year, a group of hackers announced that it had obtained the account details of 32 million users and demanded…

CIFAS – the UK’s fraud prevention organisation – has announced that a fraud prevention service designed to protect individuals from identity fraud will now operate at weekends as well as during the normal Monday-Friday working week. The CIFAS Protective Registration Service is offered to people whose details are at…

Retailers are facing a significant threat from cyber criminals following the spate of major Point-of-Sale data breaches that we’ve seen over the past year, affecting businesses as large as Target and Home Depot in the US and mass transportation ticketing systems across Europe, writes Ben Densham. As…