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Trustwave has released its 2018 Security Pressures Report based on a global survey of 1,600 full-time IT professionals who are security decision makers or security influencers within their organization.
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The US Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security have jointly released a report that offers a guide to actions that would ‘dramatically reduce the threat of botnets and similar cyberattacks’.
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The root of stopping the disruption caused by ransomware is not technology, rather it lies with human psychology. Dr. Sandra Bell looks at why this is the case and what factors organizations should consider.
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By Adesh Rampat.
With the advent of increased cyber security related threats, the majority of attacks point to one target: and that is the human element.
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War has arguably been one of the constant themes throughout human history. What has evolved, is the weaponry that we have utilised in warfare. We have seen the sword evolve into the musket, into the rifle, into the machine gun, into mechanised warfare, into nuclear bombs, and now – the cyber attack. Simon Townsend looks at what organizations can do to protect themselves.
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Fortinet has released the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report, which highlights that cybercriminals are evolving their attack methods to increase their success rates and speed infections.
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EfficientIP has published the results of its 2018 Global DNS Threat Report. This looks at the impacts of DNS-based threats on businesses across the world. Over the past year, organizations on average faced seven DNS attacks, which cost some businesses more than $5 million in damages.
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A research team from the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Münster, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks.
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Ransomware attacks grew in volume by over 400 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year due to the WannaCry cryptoworm, but other ransomware attacks became less common as the year progressed, signaling a shift in how cyber criminals are using the malware.
- NIST releases Special Publication 800-193, Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines
- Cyber report: manufacturing has become the most attacked industry sector in the UK
- The gap between cloud operations and security operations is growing
- Two thirds of online banks still have at least one critical vulnerability: report
