30 percent of malware attacks are zero day exploits

Thirty percent of malware can be classified as new or zero-day because it cannot be caught by legacy antivirus solutions, according to research published in WatchGuard’s first Quarterly Internet Security Report, which explores the latest computer and network security threats affecting SMBs and distributed enterprises. The results from Q4 2016, confirm that cyber criminals’ capability to automatically repack or morph their malware has outpaced the AV industry’s ability to keep up...

Read More

NEWS

Confusion over Cloud security

AlienVault RSA survey finds that one third of respondents describe the state of security monitoring within their organization as “complex and chaotic”.

Read More

NEWS

Industrial computers under attack

On average two-in-five computers, related to the technological infrastructure of industrial enterprises, faced cyberattacks in the second half of 2016. This is a finding from Kaspersky Lab’s report “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems. The second half of 2016.” The percentage of industrial computers under attack grew from over 17 per cent in July 2016 to more than 24 per cent in December 2016, with the top three sources of infection being the Internet,...

Read More

NEWS

The impact of hybrid IT

SolarWinds’ annual study on the state of the IT industry dives deeper into the effects hybrid IT has had on UK organisations.

Read More


NEWS

European CISOs face major challenges

More than one third of employees across the UK, France, Germany and Italy admit to have been involved in a security breach.

Read More

Innovations strengthen cyber hygiene by ensuring a risk-based approach to patching and reducing...
Cost per DNS attack increased by 12% in healthcare, the sharpest rise; healthcare also most likely...
Security scans performed on 218,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform,...
Stopping breaches from spreading across the hybrid attack surface.
Despite 59% of cybersecurity professionals saying the widening workforce gap puts their...
New location tracking capabilities mitigate risks of company data being unwillingly exposed; lowers...
Latest Video

Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

Read more