Stephanie Palmer-Derrien Cyber attacks like the one that affected PageUp in June can heighten business’s senses around their virtual vulnerabilities. Even though a recent report suggested small business could be…
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Bank of Chile Suffers $10m Loss
Kacy Zurkus Banco de Chile publicly disclosed on 28 May that it had detected a virus, presumably from international networks, that affected thousands of its workstations. Now the bank has learned that…
Barely more than one-in-five companies are well-prepared for a cyber attack, information technology survey indicates
The survey found that trust is the new battleground for IT, as organisations delicately balance the revenue-driving potential of using customer data with the need for privacy and security. The…
UK Firms Invest in Cybersecurity to Foil Attacks
Phil Muncaster There was good news for UK businesses this week after new stats from Beaming showed the number of cyber-attack victims fell by a fifth in 2017 from the…
Two-fifths of UK Firms Suffered Attack or Security Breach in 2017
Phil Muncaster Some 43% of UK businesses have experienced a security breach or cyber-attack in the past 12 months, a slight drop from a year previously, according to the latest…
Ukrainian postal service hit by 48-hour cyber-attack
Ukraine’s national postal service has been hit by a two-day-long cyber-attack targeting its online system that tracks parcels. Unknown hackers carried out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against…