UK businesses subjected to one cyber attack every minute in 1Q19
UK businesses were subjected to 119,659 internet-borne cyber attacks each, on average, in the first quarter of 2019, according to analysis by Beaming. This rate of attack, which equates to one every minute, was more than double that experienced in the first three months of 2018, when companies were attacked online 53,981 times on average. […]
More than half of companies have over 1,000 exposed sensitive files
By Matt Lock (pictured), Director of Sales Engineers UK, Varonis All an attacker needs to steal your valuable data is access. Unfortunately, many companies unknowingly give attackers access to their critical data. Personal identifying information on employees and customers, intellectual property, and more can easily make their way from secured systems to unprotected files and […]
Ramnit Trojan resumes attacks on European financial institutions
The Ramnit banking Trojan has returned to its old hunting ground after recent forays into the e-commerce space, The discovery follows analysis by F5 Labs and F5’s EMEA-based F5 Security Operations Center (SOC) examining active Ramnit banking Trojan Malware configurations in February and March 2019. All signs indicate that Ramnit’s authors are —once again—largely targeting financial services websites to […]
Cybersecurity’s biggest asset: Why use the cloud?
The cloud is one of those hot buzzwords that gets thrown around a lot both in the tech world and in our daily lives. No longer reserved for IT departments alone, the cloud has become something that we depend upon greatly, especially in the way companies go about their business. And it’s about to become […]
Survey reveals increasing IT investment in containers
87 percent of IT professionals are now running container technologies, with 90 percent of those running in production and 7 in 10 running at least 40 percent of their application portfolio in containers. That’s up considerably from two years ago, when just 67 percent of teams were running container technologies in production, according to the […]
Digital skills shortages ‘costing UK £63bn a year’
A lack of technical expertise has fuelled skills shortages across the UK for the last two decades. That is according to comparative analysis of the professional jobs market by The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). A 1999 report from University College London said almost half (47%) of all ‘skill-shortage vacancies’ that year could be […]
Cyber attacks rise as readiness levels fall
A sharp increase in the number and cost of cyber attacks is the key finding in a study of more than 5,400 organisations across seven countries, commissioned by insurer Hiscox. More than three out of five firms (61 per cent) report one or more attacks in the past year, yet the proportion achieving top scores […]
Majority of British businesses fear disruption to business critical apps
Nearly 50 per cent of UK organisations do not prioritise the protection of the applications that their business depend on – such as ERP and CRM systems – any differently than how low-value data, applications or services are secured. That’s according to an independent survey was conducted among 1,450 business and IT decision makers, primarily […]
Government challenges UK boards to up cyber security game
Boards at some of the UK’s biggest companies still don’t fully understand the potential impact of a cyber attack, according to a government report. The Government’s Cyber Governance Health Check looked at the approach the UK’s FTSE 350 companies take for cyber security. The 2018 report shows that less than a fifth (16%) of boards have […]
Biometrics and behaviour-based authentication on the rise
A new survey suggests our relationship with passwords to identify ourselves online is shifting. For some of us, it’s shocking to consider single-factor authentication is even in use today, given that poor password habits and stronger computing power has led to an increase in hacking-related breaches involving either stolen or weak passwords. But a Callsign […]
