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When you think of cybersecurity threats, what comes to mind? If you pictured faceless criminals (or a team of them) in a dimly-lit headquarters working tirelessly to steal your most precious digital assets, you’re not alone. Yet, cybercrime doesn’t always look like a scene from a Hollywood movie.   Sometimes, cyber threats are closer to home, making them all the more surprising (and frustrating) for many organizations. They’re called insider threats, and you need to...

A new global study has looked into how SOC's go about protecting organisations from threats, where they focus the most attention and what is driving modernisation plans. Cybereason's latest report Ransomware and the Modern SOC: How Ransomware is Driving the Requirements for SOC Modernization, surveyed 1,203 security professionals from eight countries and a dozen industries, and found more than 58% said their SOC spends most of its time responding to ransomware and supply chain attacks...

Security experts are warning consumers of two new scams that are circulating in the wild which are taking advantage of the buzz and hype surrounding HBO's new adaption of the popular video game franchise The Last Of US. Technology expert Prateek Jha from VPNOverview.com initiated the warning which has also been supported by Kaspersky. Kaspersky researchers shared with VPNOverview details of two separate campaigns — a scam designed to inject PCs with malware and a phishing...

New research reveals that security is an afterthought for almost half of UK IT leaders (45%) when deploying new tools. The research commissioned by IT infrastructure solutions provider CAE Technology Services Ltd (CAE) of 200 IT leaders and professionals working in the UK showed that just 7% of IT professionals believe that security is at the forefront of their organisation's strategic thinking. While 92% agreed that security risks have increased in the last five years, two-thirds (62%)...

Almost nine in 10 UK businesses turning over more than £5 million annually have experienced a cyberattack, according to new research from Forbes Advisor. The study questioned senior decision makers across a range of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), finding that more than half (57%) had suffered an online attack. However, firms with an annual turnover in excess of £5 million were far more likely to experience cyber-crimes against their company (88%). These attacks have...

Mobile phishing is an issue plaguing the masses and a growing concern for enterprises, particularly as  2022 had the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, according to Lookout's Global State of Mobile Phishing report. On average, more than 30% of personal and enterprise users exposed to these attacks every quarter. In the U.K., there was a 35% increase in the average number of mobile devices exposed to at least one malicious phishing attack...

The Outpost24 research team have released the results of attack data gathered from a network of honeypots deployed to gather actionable threat intelligence. In total, 42 million attacks were registered between January 1st and September 30th 2022, with 20 honeypots evenly distributed around the world. Honeypots are, in essence, a trap. They are a decoy system (computer, network, or software) imitating a genuine system to attract malicious users and collect information about how they operate....

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become a key component of software interaction and integration over the internet in the last decade. APIs serve as the bridge that allows applications to communicate effectively with each other using a set of predefined rules. APIs work when an application needs to connect with another. This connection starts in the form of one application initializing an interaction; this interaction comes in the form of an API request. The receiving...

Axiad, a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today released Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) for IAM, its newest offering in the Axiad Cloud authentication product line.  CBA is an improved and phishing-resistant form of MFA integral to the White House's recent Zero Trust mandate. Axiad's CBA for IAM allows security teams to easily extend the capabilities of existing IAM systems and bolster their overall cybersecurity posture. IAM ecosystems can be complex.  In fact, a recent Axiad...

With over 4,500 visitors from countries including the UK, Ireland, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, United States, and others, plus 130+ exhibitors, Nineteen Group’s inaugural standalone cybersecurity event, International Cyber Expo 2022 held at London Olympia on the 27th and 28th of September, proved to be a huge success. The event saw a packed agenda of 50+ talks, demos, presentations and CISO roundtable discussions led by world-renowned cybersecurity experts including Chair of International Cyber Expo’s...