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70% of organisations feel they’ve wasted cybersecurity budget on failing to remediate threats, says Gurucul

Despite 43% of businesses believing their biggest challenge in detecting and remediating threats is an over-abundance of tools  A worrying 73.48% of organisations feel they have wasted the majority of their cybersecurity budget on failing to remediate threats, despite having an over-abundance of security tools at their disposal. The survey conducted by Gurucul, the leader in […]

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One in three untrained employees will click on a phishing link says KnowBe4’s Annual Benchmarking Report

KnowBe4 has released its new 2022 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organisation’s Phish-prone Percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for phishing or a social engineering scam. With ransomware payments averaging $580,000 in 2021 and business email compromise (BEC) losses topping $1.8 billion in 2020, a

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Solicitors urged by NCSC to help stem the rising tide of ransomware payments

Solicitors are being asked to play their part in keeping the UK safe online by helping to tackle a rise in payments being made to ransomware criminals. In a joint letter, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ask the Law Society to remind its members of their advice on ransomware

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AT&T announces new offering in partnership with Cisco Meraki

AT&T is introducing AT&T SASE with Cisco Meraki, designed to provide businesses of nearly any size and industry with a powerful networking and security offering. This new managed service helps organisations improve network performance, enable resilient access and defend sensitive data. The service also helps protect against unauthorised use and loss. It does this while

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Q&A | Airbus to highlight safeguarding solutions at World Police Summit

In this exclusive Q&A, Selim Bouri, Vice President and GM, Head of Middle East Africa and APAC at Airbus Secure Land Communications, discusses the company’s presence at the upcoming World Police Summit. How important is it to Airbus to attend the World Police Summit and why? The World Police Summit in Dubai is one of

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KnowBe4 announces fourth season of security training series “The Inside Man”

KnowBe4 has announced its blockbuster security awareness series “The Inside Man” is premiering its fourth season at the Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida. It will also be premiered in London on the 17th of February at the Phoenix Arts Club. This season’s story takes the action on to a truly international stage. Mark Shepherd’s team of cyberwarriors

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Obrela acquires Encode to become one of Europe’s largest MDR players

Obrela Security Industries has acquired Encode, a Security Analytics and Response Orchestration provider. With cybercrime damages projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion by 2025, the importance of securing an organisation’s digital universe has never been greater. The acquisition means Obrela can offer its customers a more holistic package of services to detect and mitigate cyberattacks over their entire digital landscape.  “Our acquisition of Encode is an important milestone for Obrela and we are excited about the

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Talion | “Pay the ransom” 20% of Brits say to their hacked employers

A new study into ransomware from Talion has revealed that 20% of UK office workers would expect their employer to pay a ransom demand from cybercriminals, if its network was infected with ransomware and their personal employee data was impacted. The study was carried out in June 2021 and studied the attitudes of 1000 UK

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72% of UK organisations blame cyberattacks on vulnerabilities put in place during pandemic, says Tenable

Tenable has published results of a study that found 72% of UK organisations attribute recent business-impacting* cyberattacks to vulnerabilities in technology put in place during the pandemic, while 68% suffered attacks that targeted remote workers. The data is drawn from ‘Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Cybersecurity in the New World of Work,’ a commissioned study

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Armis report says 87% of UK workforce believe cyberattacks have a major impact on everyday life

Asset visibility and security platform, Armis has released results from a survey that gauged the UK workforce’s attitudes towards cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Carried out by Censuswide*, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10 (87%) believe that cyberattacks on critical services, such as oil suppliers, healthcare services, police departments or water treatment facilities, could

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Corero highlights attacker behaviour during pandemic in latest report

Corero Network Security has published its latest edition if its annual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report which highlights threats are growing in sophistication, size and frequency. The year 2020 revealed changes in attacker behaviour during the pandemic including a year-over-year increase of nearly 400% in the use of OpenVPN reflections as an attack vector. “OpenVPN as

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New Lookout report finds 125% surge in 2020 mobile phishing attacks

Lookout has a released a new report showing that mobile phishing exposure doubled among financial services in 2020 despite a significant increase in mobile device management (MDM) deployment. The report also uncovered a surge in exposure to malicious and risky applications among the industry’s employees and customers. Between 2019 and 2020, Lookout data found that

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