It’s not an easy task to remember a week in 2018 without a major data leak or security breach. Passwords were leaking, new sophisticated malware attacks were sp...
A new DCU study has shown how increased social media exposure, particularly on Twitter, adversely affects the cost to firms who’ve experienced a data breach.
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by Alex Hinchliffe, Threat Intelligence Analyst, EMEA, Palo Alto Networks
Cryptomining
Commodity ransomware will still plague users and their systems in 2019. GandCrab and Bitpaymer are commonly seen today but the volumes recently are much lowe...
Mac-based malware has appeared on the list of top ten most common types of malware for the first time in WatchGuard’s quarterly Internet Security Report. The Ma...
by Dr Sandra Bell, Sungard Availability Services head of resilience consulting (Europe)
It’s hard to read the news at the moment without ransomware being men...
by Terry Hearn
High street chains have been alerting customers to data breaches with what seems like increasing regularity in recent years. In 2018 alone, British Airways, Butlins, Ticketmaster and Dixons Carphone have been among the most high-pro...
Over 50% of cyber attacks on Irish businesses may be undetected, the Magnet Networks Cyber Security Survey has found.
Just 20% of businesses surveyed say the...
Identity theft is the most common type of cybercrime which is escalating beyond boundaries. The effect of the same is being seen in various parts of the world n...
I talk to Graham Cluley one of the speakers at the Data Solutions Secure Computing Forum. Graham talks about his background, how Anti-Virus software has changed since he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, the...