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…
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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…
Hospitals Exposed by Connected Devices
Phil Muncaster At any one time the world’s connected hospitals could be running as many as 80,000 exposed devices, putting hospital operations, data privacy and patient health at risk, according…
EMEA Attack Dwell Time Hits 175 Days
Phil Muncaster EMEA organizations take around 2.5 months longer to spot hackers inside their networks than the global average, but are getting better at discovering breaches internally, according to FireEye.…
2.7 Million UK Businesses Wide Open to IoT Hacks
Tara Seals About 2.7 million businesses in the UK are leaving themselves vulnerable to internet of things (IoT) hacks. ForeScout worked with CensusWide to conduct an independent survey of 500…
US Gas Pipelines Hit by Cyber-Attack
Phil Muncaster Several US gas pipelines have been hit after a cyber-attack targeted a third-party supplier. Latitude Technologies, which supplies “electronic data interchange” (EDI) services to some of the country’s…