Companies must take responsibility for cyber security at board level to tackle the exponential growth in attacks, the government has urged. The warning comes as ministers launch a Cyber Security for Business booklet to encourage company ...
Current business security models fail to prepare for cyber threats in the face of highly sophisticated, powerful cyber attack tools that are no longer the preserve of nation states, as they filter down to a wider community of attackers. ...
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This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
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Public private partnerships are key to the UK’s cyber security strategy, says Cabinet Office minister for political and constitutional reform, Chloe Smith. “We are all in this together. The government recognizes that and ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its Can you talk security? competition devised by BT and Get Safe Online. Winner Leo Pickford, an IT manager at a design company, could soon see his ...
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A US congressional panel examining the Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE is concluding an investigation into whether the companies' equipment is a threat to US infrastructure and commercial confidentiality with a public hearing. In ...
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A perplexing risk has emerged for parents, as kids are drawn into chat rooms, online commerce, and submitting private data to join groups of "friends" they have never met, undermining traditional safety precautions of American families. ...
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The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has launched an initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement, security agencies and IT security professionals. Called Project 2020, the ...
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Every minute another person in New Zealand becomes a victim of cybercrime according to a new report which claims there are 556 million victims worldwide every year after the two NRI jailed for a major cyber fraud case revealed in this news ...
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The cost of protection against cyber crime can far exceed the cost of the threat itself, a Cambridge University-led international study has concluded. The first systematic study of the cost of cyber crime recommends that less should be ...
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Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
Ireland top least-malware-infected nations for the first time PandaLabs, Panda Security's antimalware laboratory, today published its Quarterly Report for Q3, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from July through September ...
A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
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Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them being legitimate code. As a result of the breach, the company will revoke the certificate next Thursday and will update ...
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Almost a third of European citizens lack confidence in using the internet for financial transactions. A survey of 27,000 citizen across EU member states, commissioned by the European Commission (EC), reported that internet users are ...