Do we need harsher penalties and enforced data breach detection measures?
The spate of high-profile data breaches reported in recent years is leading to increasing public fear about organizations’ ability to prevent and detect cybercrime, according …
Industrial security awareness continues to remain low
While traditional manufacturing industries were not designed with security in mind, the proliferation of networks and devices, disparate communication channels, and the use of …
Will the 2016 US presidential campaign get hacked?
As the 2016 presidential race heats up, Wakefield Research examined American perceptions of the threat of political hacking, and which of the leading U.S. presidential …
137 major incidents disrupted EU telephony and Internet access in 2014
ENISA publishes its Annual Incidents report which gives the aggregated analysis of the security incidents causing severe outages in 2014.The report provides an overview on an …
Do conventional security measures negatively impact productivity?
91 percent of business respondents reported that their productivity is negatively impacted by security measures their employer has put in place, according to Dell. However, if …
Vulnerability management embraces new functions
Vulnerability management (VM) solution providers have always held their own in the global network security domain. VM technologies scan network endpoints such as desktops and …
Global cyber insurance market to grow to over $20 billion by 2025
Cyber risk is a major and fast-increasing threat to businesses with cyber-crime alone costing the global economy approximately $445 billion a year, with the world’s largest 10 …
Security pros acknowledge risks from untrusted certificates but take no action
A Venafi survey of 300 Black Hat USA 2015 attendees reveals that most IT security professionals understand and acknowledge the risks associated with untrustworthy certificates …
Half of iPhones on corporate networks run outdated iOS versions
Unpatched and end-of-life devices that are no longer supported by the manufacturer are much more prevalent than expected and create significant risk for corporate networks.Duo …
2015 saw 888 data breaches, 246 million records compromised worldwide
Gemalto revealed that in the first six months of this year a total of 888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide.Compared to the first half of …
95% of websites in 10 new TLDs are suspicious
Much has changed since the early days of the Internet when the Web had only six common top level domains (TLDs). Back then, what most consumers and businesses encountered were …
Snoopers’ Charter will cause extreme rise in business costs
The UK Government’s Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ by critics, has already been met with contention from tech giants, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, …