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New research published in the NTT 2016 Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals that cybercriminals have shifted their focus from traditional financial markets, to targeting the retail sector. Retail organizations experienced nearly three times as many cyberattacks as those in the finance sector
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Logicalis has prepared a list of ten questions which CIOs must have an answer for to ensure that their organization is adequately prepared for a cyber-incident. The questions offer a useful checklist for any information security planning activities
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Jake Madders highlights the increasing trend for distributed denial of service attacks to come with a ransom demand and explains what organizations can do to handle such a situation.
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WinMagic, Inc. has released the results of a new study analysing the disconnect between end-user employees and IT managers, when it comes to information security.
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A new white paper by cybersecurity veteran Chris Pogue argues that the technology industry has been ‘fighting the wrong battle with the wrong weapons’ against cybercrime for the past two decades.
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Cloud-based security providers commonly use DNS redirection to protect customers' websites: however, computer scientists from KU Leuven, Belgium, and digital research centre iMinds have found that the protected IP address can be retrieved in more than 70 percent of cases.
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The results of a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International show that a quarter of companies risk losing access to business-critical systems because there is no anti-DDoS protection in place.
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What goes up must come down, as the old saying goes, and the cloud is no exception. Like traditional on-premise networks, even the biggest, best-resourced cloud providers can experience unplanned outages, service disruptions and downtime.
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Traditional approaches to penetration testing have been overtaken by the changes in information security threats that we have seen in recent years. Nick Rafferty explains why this is the case and what can be done about it.