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Digital technologies are evolving so rapidly that vulnerabilities emerge faster than they can be secured. As such, it’s getting harder to prevent data breaches and criminals have their choice of weaknesses to exploit. This is the opinion of the WEC …
The number of UK businesses that have suffered cyber attacks has doubled in the past five years, according to a new report. Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5 million organisations fell victim to cyber crime in 2019. …
England’s coronavirus lockdown will all but end on 4 July, with the government allowing pubs, restaurants, cinemas, museums and hotels to reopen. The decision comes after steady progress in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and the partial reopening of other …
UPDATE: Since we first published this story, Zoom has implemented end-to-end encryption for all users. Until three weeks ago, you had probably never heard of the video conferencing software Zoom. But now, as we remain in lockdown and are forced …
Hi, my name is Dom and I work as a front-end developer for Vigilant Software (a sister company of IT Governance) where I spend my day crafting the user interface for our products CyberComply and Cyber Security Portal. My job …
BT’s external auditor, KPMG, has issued an “adverse opinion” of the telecom giant’s internal financial reporting controls in another blow to its accounting credibility. KPMG found that BT had misstated its financial statements as a result of “material weaknesses related …
Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, more sophisticated and more costly, according to a Accenture and Ponemon Institute report. The Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Study found that the average cost of cyber crime rose from $11.7 million (about £8.6 …
Contrary to what you might have heard, cyber criminals pose a much bigger threat to organisations than employees. This is the stand-out finding in Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, debunking speculation that internal actors should now be organisations’ top …
We have just seen 8,801,171,594 breached data records in one month. Yes, 8.8 billion. Granted, the majority of those were the result of a leaky database belonging to the Thai phone network AIS that was quickly resolved – but it …
Almost half of organisations have suffered a cyber security incident as a result of the sudden shift to remote working, a new study has found. A Barracuda Networks survey discovered that 46% of organisations across the UK, US, France and …
