Record wave of phishing comes to an ebb in autumn 2016
The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the year’s record wave of phishing subsided in the autumn. According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the total …
Citizens will share personal data with smart city programs by 2019
The rapid pace of technological and societal change has given government CIOs a new sense of urgency and a willingness to experiment with smart city and open data initiatives, …
The difficult path to cyber resilience
Global organizations are more confident than ever that they can predict and resist a sophisticated cyber attack, but are falling short of investments and plans to recover from …
Deadlines for investigating and reporting data breaches
75% of organisations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, according to Balabit. However, 44% of respondents reported missing internal or …
Growth rates of cryptographic keys and certificates
A new study conducted by Dimensional Research evaluated current and projected growth rates of cryptographic keys and digital certificates in the enterprise for 2016 and 2017. …
The economics of ransomware revealed
70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of consumers surveyed said …
Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime
Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …
Risky sites have never been easier to exploit
46% of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky. This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad …
Healthcare IT professionals are overconfident
A Dimensional Research study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls, which must be in place to quickly detect a …
The rising use of personal identities in the workplace
90% of enterprise IT professionals are concerned that employee reuse of personal credentials for work purposes could compromise security. However, with 68% saying they would …
Should security vendors offer product guarantees?
A new Vanson Bourne survey of 500 businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany revealed that nine in ten companies want to see IT security vendors offer a guarantee on their …
Consumers regularly share passcodes, creating compromising situations
Consumers keep more and more sensitive personal and professional information on their mobile phones, but most people remain alarmingly casual about adequately protecting that …