More than 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link

New research has found over 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link, according to KnowBe4’s 2023 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report. The report measures an organisation’s Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which shows the likelihood employees will be duped by phishing or a social engineering scam. The overall baseline for 2023, which […]

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June 23, 2023
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IT Security Guru study shows over one in ten Brits are willing to engage in ‘illegal or illicit’ online behaviour as the Cost of Living crisis worsens

The IT Security Guru, working in conjunction with market research firm Censuswide and cybersecurity PR agency Eskenzi PR, has uncovered some shocking statistics relating to scams and the cost of living crisis. The results of the survey found that 11% of Brits were tempted to engage in ‘illegal or illicit online behaviour’ in order to […]

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June 15, 2023
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Outpost24 Acquires EASM Provider Sweepatic

Cybersecurity risk management specialists Outpost24 have today announced the acquisition of Sweepatic. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Sweepatic is an innovative external attack surface management (EASM) platform. Gartner identified EASM as a top Security and Risk Management (SRM) trend for 2022. By leveraging their EASM solution across Outpost24s full-stack security assessment and threat intelligence offering, customers […]

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June 7, 2023
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Research Reveals UK Firms Plan to Embrace New Era of Digital Identity

A new research report, entitled Plotting the Roadmap for Digital Identity, by API focused identity and access management company Curity found that UK organisations and consumers are ready to embrace a new era of digital identity. The research revealed that 60% of organisations in the UK and US expect digital identity to have a transformative […]

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May 31, 2023
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Salt Security Attains AWS Security Competency Status 

Today, Salt Security announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status in the Application Security category. Salt is the only API security company to have earned AWS Security Competency. Having this certification differentiates Salt as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialised software to assess code, logic, and applications […]

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May 31, 2023
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How to prevent against the 5 main types of insider threats

Over one in ten data breaches originate from a malicious insider, and they cost companies $4.18 million dollars per incident. And that’s only the malicious ones.   According to the 2023 Insider Threat Report by Cybersecurity Insiders, nearly three-fourths (74%) of organizations are at least moderately vulnerable to insider threats. It’s worth a company’s time to […]

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May 19, 2023
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Time Taken For Hackers to Crack Passwords Revealed

New Specops Software research has unearthed the length of time it takes modern attackers to brute force user passwords. Plain text password storage is rare in these modern times, requiring attackers to adopt password cracking methods to make use of the majority of (hashed) password leaks. However, with the help of newer password-cracking hardware and […]

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May 18, 2023
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International Cyber Expo 2023 – Registration is now OPEN

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, […]

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May 16, 2023
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Discord Suffers Data Breach Through Compromised Third Party

Popular social media platform Discord has notified users it has suffered a data breach after a support agent’s account at a third party became compromised. A malicious individual then gained unauthorised access to the agent’s support queue, exposing user email addresses, Discord support messages and attachments sent via the ticket system. Discord – which has […]

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May 16, 2023
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European Data at Risk With Tick-box GDPR Compliance and High Cyberattack Volumes

Yesterday, comforte AG released the findings of a survey conducted on over 500 IT Security Specialists and Chief Information Officers across the UK, France and Germany. The research revealed that European IT and security leaders may be dangerously over-confident in their ability to avoid cyberattacks and mitigate the risk of serious data compromise. comforte AG […]

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May 3, 2023
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