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The beginning of the year is when budgets for the forthcoming year are made available, when many new projects are teed off, and the security conference season starts. It is …

Dr. Peter Lokhorst is Managing Director of InfoSecure BV, which is currently in seven countries and provides awareness training programs to international clients including …

According to a recent Arbor Networks report on infrastructure security, the number of DDoS attacks on enterprise DNS servers is on the rise but, despite this, many businesses …

When it comes to data breaches, the risk for organizations is higher than ever before – from the calculable costs of leaked data to the less tangible effects on the …

At a summit of regulators and intelligence chiefs yesterday, the business secretary, Vince Cable, issued a timely warning to all in attendance of the vulnerability of …

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 …

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 …

It has become somewhat of a tradition for information security vendors to pull out their crystal balls at the end of each year and do their best to predict interesting …

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 …

Awareness days are a great way to raise the profile of important issues that might otherwise go unnoticed and Data Privacy Day is no different. Held annually on January 28, …

Calling all devices: We are Internet, Resistance is futile! I’ve been at this long enough to see the birth of the Internet, the current state of the Internet and the …