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Police ransomware: A multimillion business

The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol published its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the …

Lack of skills hindering appsec programs

An ongoing shortage of skills in application security is severely hampering the implementation of effective Appsec programs, according to SANS. The 2014 Application Security …

Five lessons we can learn from financial services and compliance

Banks and financial services organisations have been a prime target for hackers for a very long time, and as a result of this the industry has had to adhere to security …

DDoS attacks used to influence stock prices

Prolexic Technologies shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber attackers are using DDoS attacks in an attempt to influence market values …

Most adults share intimate info via unsecured digital devices

McAfee examined how more than 1,500 consumers are sharing and storing intimate data on their mobile devices, especially with current or former significant others. Sharing …

Malware laden emails at five year high

This past month of January we saw a pretty incredible spike in virus traffic. Other unsolicited emails ebbed and flowed throughout the month resulting in a regular average …

USA still the global spam king

SophosLabs revealed the Dirty Dozen top spam-relaying nations, as it published the final “Spampionship” league table of 2013. Once again, it was the USA which …

By 2016, 30% of organizations will use biometric authentication on mobile devices

The consumerization of IT and business BYOD programs have resulted in potential security problems for IT leaders, according to Gartner. User expectations of a clean and simple …

Accreditation program strengthens global supply chain security

The Open Group launched the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) Accreditation Program, aimed at assuring the integrity of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) …

Top enterprise security threats identified

A new report from HP provides in-depth data and analysis around the most pressing security issues plaguing enterprises. It details factors that contributed most to the growing …

Security breaches, data loss and outages cost U.S. hospitals $1.6B

A new MeriTalk report, based on a survey of healthcare IT executives and underwritten by EMC, quantifies the organizational cost associated with security breaches, data loss, …

Dell releases secure, managed, ultra-mobile cloud access device

Dell announced Dell Wyse Cloud Connect, an ultra-compact and highly mobile cloud-access device that delivers desktop virtualization and personal cloud services to any HDMI- or …

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