Sutton and East Surrey Water (SESW) has started using ForeScout's CounterACT network access control (NAC) monitoring system to boost the firm's security automation and asset discovery across its 500-user network.
John E. Dunn | 20 Nov | Read more
SafeNet's latest Breach Level Index (BLI) report has underlined the bleak picture of global data breaches, with 320 reported compromises between July and September leaking a total 183 million customer records.
John E. Dunn | 20 Nov | Read more
US retailers are still struggling to improve their defences against data breaches, with almost two thirds experiencing declining security performance using a methodology based on looking for traces of malware and compromise, security benchmarking vendor BitSight has reported.
John E. Dunn | 20 Nov | Read more
Mobile app cloning from unauthorised app sites now affects 97 percent of the top 100 paid Android apps and 87 percent of the Apple iOS apps in the same category, with financial services, healthcare and retail popular targets for criminals, Arxan Technology's annual survey of the phenomenon has found.
John E. Dunn | 19 Nov | Read more
The NHS has suffered more than 7,000 data breaches in the last three years, a rising volume of incidents that will only be tackled when prison sentences are handed down for serious offences, a study by campaign group Big Brother Watch (BBW) has argued.
John E. Dunn | 15 Nov | Read more
Under-pressure BlackBerry is fighting back, announcing a tie-up with Samsung that will bring the firm's BlackBerry Enterprise Service 12 (BES 12) security to Android handsets running the South Korean vendor's Knox containerisation system.
John E. Dunn | 15 Nov | Read more
Orange-backed Israeli startup LogDog has launched a new smartphone app it believes offers a way for users of services such as Gmail and Twitter to secure these accounts against hijacking by monitoring for unauthorised access.
John E. Dunn | 14 Nov | Read more
If an attacker compromises an online account what damage can they do and does the user wrest back control?
John E. Dunn | 13 Nov | Read more
Up to a half of IT European staff admit they're not ready for the EU's ground-breaking General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and more than that number aren't even sure what the term ‘GDPR' stands for, a survey of European professionals by network management firm Ipswitch has suggested.
John E. Dunn | 13 Nov | Read more
A state-backed espionage group has spent years targeting senior executives from large global companies using a specialised Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) that can follow and steal data from them as they move around the globe from hotel to hotel, Kaspersky has revealed.
John E. Dunn | 12 Nov | Read more
Large numbers of websites and Internet services are disappearing behind encrypted connections, part of a growing "visibility void" in which organisations struggle to tell friendly traffic from foe, security firm Blue Coat has argued.
John E. Dunn | 09 Nov | Read more
The Government wants to boost the uptake of cyber-insurance as a way of improving how UK organisations manage security risk, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has said at a summit hosted with CEOs from the industry.
John E. Dunn | 07 Nov | Read more
A new version of the The Rovnix Trojan that has spent 2014 quietly spreading across the Internet has infected at least 130,000 PCs in the UK to pilfer credit card data, security firm BitDefender has warned.
John E. Dunn | 07 Nov | Read more
After a decade trying, many organisations seem no nearer solving the problem of allowing staff to work at home without breaking basic data security, a survey by Imation has found. Many workers are still using their own PCs for home work and move files between the two environments in an insecure state.
John E. Dunn | 06 Nov | Read more
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned organisations to wise up on SQL injection flaws after fining a travel firm for a serious data breach caused by the issue.
John E. Dunn | 06 Nov | Read more