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Whitepaper: Mobile banking regulations, threats and fraud prevention
The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. At the end of 2019, 74% of the UK and 75% of the US people used mobile devices to …

Week in review: Zerologon PoCs released, five steps to recover from ransomware, CISOs’ golden opportunity
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Most people ignore QR code security concerns QR codes are rising in …

Justifying your 2021 cybersecurity budget
Sitting in the midst of an unstable economy, a continued public health emergency, and facing an uptick in successful cyber attacks, CISOs find themselves needing to enhance …

Incident management tools and processes insufficient to enable innovation
Enterprise digital transformation budgets continue to increase despite a recession, developers find it challenging to innovate and standard incident management tools and …

Improving privacy of a global genomic data sharing network
A Case Western Reserve University computer and data sciences researcher is working to shore up privacy protections for people whose genomic information is stored in a vast …

What’s causing uncertainty about election security?
Confidence levels in securing the election are low, and declining, according to an ISACA survey of more than 3,000 IT governance, risk, security and audit professionals in the …

Ongoing and initial costs top list of barriers to 5G implementation
5G is set to deliver higher data transfer rates for mission-critical communications and will allow massive broadband capacities, enabling high-speed communication across …

Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks
Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to …

DDoS attacks rise in intensity, sophistication and volume
There have been significant shifts in DDoS attack patterns in the first half of 2020, a Neustar report reveals. There has been a 151% increase in the number of DDoS attacks …

Product showcase: AppTrana
DDoS Attacks, bots, targeted attacks based on application vulnerabilities, have created a new wave of security challenges. Attackers are constantly targeting …

Most people ignore QR code security concerns
QR codes are rising in popularity and use, according to a consumer sentiment study by MobileIron. Sixty-four percent of respondents stated that a QR code makes life easier in …

GAIA-X to strenghten European digital infrastructure sovereignity
The GAIA-X Initiative announced that it is one step closer to its goal of a trustworthy, sovereign digital infrastructure for Europe, with the official signing of …
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