Since November 2015, Avast has registered more than 4.5 million users who encountered the infection.

Exposing heads of state and the world’s elite, it is perhaps the largest leak of confidential information ever seen by the media.

Report by from Digital Shadows finds a company’s security infrastructure is more vulnerable during the Mergers and Acquisition process.

US Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre warn of widespread, “devastating” infections.

Pivotal Software and Kentucky State University, the latest targets, have added thousands of affected employees to the victim count.

Hard on the heels of a Verizon data breach of 1.5 million customer contact details, another DB was found to be wide open.

The USA and UK are to resume critical infrastructure testing later this year, with simulated cyber-attacks taking place on a nuclear power plant.

In most cases, insiders took advantage of granted, trusted access to data, rather than trying to directly hack in to databases and files.

Awareness raising initiative has never been more important, say experts

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