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The volume of Internet-vectored cyber attacks on UK businesses originating from European locations doubled in March, according to data published by Beaming.
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With ransomware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the rise, the average number of focused cyber attacks per organization has more than doubled this year compared to the previous 12 months (232 through January 2018 versus 106 through January 2017).
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Findings from an Osterman Research survey show that account takeover based (ATO) attacks are increasing and impacted 44 percent of surveyed businesses in the past 12 months.
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Bitglass has published the findings of a survey for its ‘Cloud Hard 2018: Security with a Vengeance’ report, which includes insights from over 570 cybersecurity and IT professionals on their approach to cloud security.
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Ransomware attacks are a key cybersecurity threat for global organizations and attacks have doubled since 2017, now targeting business critical systems, warns Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
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Over a quarter of businesses that have been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack don’t think they were the intended target, highlighting that businesses can’t afford to be complacent when it comes to today’s threat landscape.
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In response to developing ransomware techniques which target backups, Asigra is calling for organizations to review their backup policies and double down on redundancy so that multiple remote copies of mission critical backups are available when the next attack occurs.
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Barry Shteiman looks at the role of machine learning in cyber security and explains that, while it is not a ‘silver bullet’, it has a distinct role when augmented with human intelligence.
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A recent survey by Ponemon Institute, commissioned by SolarWinds MSP, looked at senior security executives’ awareness of and readiness for increased malware and ransomware threats.
