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…
Tag: email
48 Million Detailed Psychometric Records on Individuals Leaked
About 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals have been leaked, containing Cambridge Analytica–style information gathered and scraped from multiple sources. The culprit, as…
Oil Industry Neglected Cybersecurity During The Downturn
By Tsvetana Paraskova Striving to adapt to the lower-for-longer oil prices with cost cuts, oil companies put investment into boosting cybersecurity on the back burner during the worst of the…
Ransomware tops malicious attack charts
Ransomware has become the most popular form of malware used in cyber-attacks, suggests a study. Almost 40% of all successful malware-based attacks involved ransomware suggests the annual Verizon data breach…
PwC’s Kevin Campbell On Why Cybersecurity Responsibility Lays With the C-Suite First
by Muriel Vega PwC’s 2018 Global State of Information Security survey showed that almost half — 48 percent — of companies surveyed don’t have an employee security awareness training in place, while…
Majority of Critical Infrastructure Orgs Unprepared for Attacks
Tara Seals Nearly 60% of executives at critical infrastructure operators polled in a recent survey said they lack appropriate controls to protect their environments from security threats. While organizations have…