
Companies suffer an average of 15 DDoS attacks per year
The average company suffers 15 DDoS attacks per year, with average attacks causing 17 hours of effective downtime, including slowdowns, denied customer access or crashes, …

The dynamics of mobile app collusion and malicious activities
Mobile app collusion happens when cybercriminals manipulate two or more apps to orchestrate attacks on smartphone owners. McAfee Labs has observed such behavior across more …

Businesses lost over £1 billion to online crime in the last year
With online crime becoming an increasing threat for businesses, new figures from Get Safe Online and Action Fraud show that from March 2015 – March 2016, a huge total of …

27% of cloud apps are high risk
As more and more organizations adopt cloud platforms, new shadow IT risk vectors are coming into play in the form of connected third-party apps, according to CloudLock …

Perception of cloud security within enterprises is improving
The perception of cloud security within enterprises is improving dramatically year-over year as cloud applications mature, according to Bitglass. One of the most significant …

A third of organizations experienced a data breach in the past 12 months
Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter …

Digital businesses will suffer for inability to manage risk
As organizations transition to digital business, a lack of directly owned infrastructure and services outside of IT’s control will need to be addressed by cybersecurity. …

It takes 248 days for IT businesses to fix their software vulnerabilities
Compiled using data collected from tens of thousands of websites, a new WhiteHat Security report reveals that the majority of web applications exhibit, on average, two or more …

Do companies take customers’ security seriously?
75 percent of adults in the UK would stop doing business with, or would cancel membership to, an organisation if it was hacked. This suggests, however, that a quarter would …

Proactive threat hunting: Detect, isolate and eradicate
Organizations worldwide wait until they fall victim to a damaging cyber attack before engaging a provider of managed security services, or MSS, according to Raytheon. …

789% year-over-year spike in malware and phishing
An analysis of phishing email campaigns from the first three months of 2016 has seen a 6.3 million increase in raw numbers, due primarily to a ransomware upsurge against the …

Unsurprisingly, malware incidents set to grow
Up to half of US organizations have experienced malware attacks which have had a severe impact on their business operations, according to new research by IDG Connect. Forty …
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