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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new document that will help organizations prepare better against potentially destructive attacks to the collection of hardware and firmware components of a computer system, also called the platform.
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Manufacturing is the top target for cyber attackers according to 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from NTT Security. The sector represented almost half (46 percent) of all UK cyber attacks in 2017 – more than double that of attacks on manufacturing across EMEA.
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Ixia has released its 2018 Security Report, highlighting the company’s biggest security findings over the past year from its Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Center. The report analyzes the growing exposure to cybersecurity risks as enterprises operate more of their workloads in the cloud.
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Positive Technologies has published the findings of its annual report on the state of e-banking security. The Financial Application Vulnerabilities Report, drawn from audits performed by the company, finds that two thirds of online banking systems still contain at least one critical vulnerability.
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Network security policies play a key role in securing organizations against cyber attacks, however, there are several common pitfalls that businesses can fall foul of when implementing their security policies. Andrew Lintell describes five of the most prominent that could be leaving your business vulnerable.
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With a surprisingly large number of software vendors choosing to protect licensing with physical authentication dongles, Joachim Sturmhoefel looks at how organizations can bridge the gap between new agile cloud systems and the necessary hardware to maintain business as usual.
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DDoS attacks can cost enterprises up to $50,000 (£35,000) per attack – but lost revenue is still only considered to be the fourth most damaging consequence of this type of cyber attack, according to research published by Corero Network Security.
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The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 1.1 of its popular Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, more widely known as the Cybersecurity Framework.
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The majority (92 percent) of organizations are taking steps to minimise the risk from amplified distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks utilising Memcached servers, according to new survey-based research from the Neustar International Security Council (NISC).
- European-generated cyber attacks on UK businesses double in March
- New study shows cyber resilience improvements; but still work to do for many organizations
- Emerging threats: account takeover based attacks rapidly increasing
- Vast majority of organizations are unable to identify anomalous behaviour in cloud applications
