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Organizations are bombarded with potential threats every day. Most of these are small and irritating, not truly critical – but among those needles are little threads of …

The 2014 Winter Olympics are set to start on Friday in Sochi, a Russian city located on the shores of the Black Sea. There have been many controversies regarding this choice …

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 …

Many users – if not all – have experienced downloading a free screensaver or game without looking at the small print and consequently getting their browser …

Earlier this month, Invincea researchers have warned about visitors of video-sharing website Dailymotion being targeted with malicious ads leading to bogus infection warnings …

In case you haven’t heard the term before, a drive-by download (DbD) is a class of cyber attack where you visit a booby-trapped web site and it automatically, and …

A colleague of mine recently made a joke and it made me pause to think. During our discussion on compliance and how internal policy can help organizations comply with external …

The popularity of Bitcoin and other digital / cryptographic currency cannot be denied. Different users like using it for different reasons, but many agree that the question of …

Smartphone users need to realise that their mobile phone is less of a phone and more of a mobile computer, in which applications can collect data from other applications …

Just in time for Data Privacy Day, Microsoft has released the results of a survey that shows the privacy attitudes of technology savvy individuals in the US and four European …

DDoS attacks will continue to be a serious issue in 2014 – as attackers become more agile and their tools become more sophisticated, according to Radware. Their report …

The EU’s cyber security Agency, ENISA, is publishing a series of new studies about the current security practices of Trust Service Providers (TSPs) and recommendations …