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Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Research Reveals Decline in Ransomware and Malware attacks in 2018 In Ireland, but Phishing and Weaponised Cryptocurrency Mining Remain as Prevalent Threats

Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report (volume 24) for 2018, shows that there has been a major decline in Ransomware and…

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How to start a cybersecurity company and survive

2017 was the year of the ransomware, 2018 was the year of cryptominers - it’s unknown what the biggest cybersecurity…

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Ransom demand on Luas website likely the first of many in 2019

With the website of Dublin’s tram service, Luas, down after an apparent cyber attack, one of the country’s leading cyber…

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Cyber-attacks: Prepare and practice cybersecurity drills

by Tom Long, Cisco Ireland’s Head of Technical Strategy Rehearsals and drills are part of life. From a young age…

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New Speakers Announced for DataSolutions’ 6th Annual Secure Computing Forum

One of Ireland’s largest security events with 400 delegates expected to attend 16 international speakers to discuss cybersecurity, counter-terrorism, Artificial…

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After a week of headline grabbing global cyberattacks are businesses ready for the next wave?

Join our live interactive panel debate with two of the world’s leading cyber counter terrorists Tuesday 11th September from 17.00-17.25…

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SamSam: The (Almost) Six Million Dollar Ransomware

Executive/press briefing notes and highlights of our investigation into this ransomware campaign Executive summary Sophos has been conducting a long-term…

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Novi launches Novi PatchGuard in Ireland and internationally

Novi, the cyber security and proactive IT provider, has announced that it is launching Novi PatchGuard, a new vulnerability and…

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Cyber Security Trends for 2018

Throughout 2017 the cyber war continued to rage bringing us well-publicised ransomware outbreaks such as WannaCry, Petya, NotPetya and Bad…

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