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DTX & UCX Manchester 2023 Agenda goes live

Organisers of the North’s biggest ever digital and IT transformation event on 17th and 18th May at Manchester Central have released further details of the big talking points from local tech leaders and innovators.  The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy…

Häfele Recovers from Ransomware Attack using SASE

Following a well-publicised ransomware attack in February 2023, Häfele was able to recover in record time by moving to Cato SASE Cloud. The international manufacturer and supplier of furniture fittings, architectural hardware and lighting products rebuilt its 50+ country, 180-site…

One Identity Receive Multiple CRN Accolades

Today, systems management, data protection, and software security company, Quest Software and One Identity, part of the Quest family, announced shared success in the 2023 CRN Partner Program Guide.   CRN® is a brand of The Channel Company; the CRN…

Charming Kitten Using New Malware in Multi-Country Attacks

Charming Kitten, the infamous Iranian nation-state group, is actively targeting victims across Europe, U.S., India and Middle East with a new malware dubbed BellaCiao. The malware is the latest in their expansive custom tool kit. BellaCiao was discovered by Bitdefender,…

Email Threat Report 2023: Key Takeaways

Every day, countless people across all industries send and receive emails as a significant part of their jobs. Email is often the most convenient and simplest way to get keep in contact with key stakeholders such as co-workers, senior management,…

Global Infosec Award Winners Announced at RSA

Yesterday, the winners of 11th coveted Global Infosec Awards were announced at the RSA conference in San Francisco. The awards are run by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), who spent six months searching for over 4,300 companies who manage, create and…

CyberSmart makes waves in SME cybersecurity market

CyberSmart recently announced a record year of growth, marked by a large funding round, headcount and customer growth as well as geographical market expansion. The company also recently completed its Series B funding round in January 2023 with £12.75 million.…

Outpost24 Appoints New Chief Strategy Officer

Today, Outpost24 announced that it has appointed Brendan Hogan as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). Hogan is responsible for spearheading M&A Strategy, Corporate Development and Alliance strategy for the company. Hogan has over 20 years of strategy and corporate development experience…

Dragos OT-CERT Celebrates One Year of Service

A year ago, Dragos Inc. released the first cybersecurity resource designed to provide industrial asset owners and operators with free OT-specific cybersecurity resources. Dragos OT-CERT (Operational Technology – Cyber Emergence Readiness Team), was designed specifically to help teams within small…

How to Strengthen your Insider Threat Security

Insider “threat” is a bit of a misnomer. Most insiders aren’t looking to cause harm. At best, they believe they’re cutting through the red tape; at worst, they’re apathetic.   Let’s take a common scenario: an employee sends sensitive data…

How to Spot and Avoid Phishing Scams While Gambling Online

Online casinos and other gambling websites have revolutionized how many gamblers play. Whereas gambling used to be restricted to specific physical locations, punters can now freely enjoy a quick betting session regardless of where they are.  The opportunities such websites…

Armis Announces Significant Business Momentum in Healthcare

Armis has announced significant business momentum in the healthcare sector driven by healthcare and life sciences companies choosing the Armis Platform to identify and secure their medical devices. Armis has become a critical partner to global healthcare and life sciences…

Enhanced Threat Intelligence Technology Announced by Outpost24

Today, Outpost24 announced the release of a new Vulnerability Risk Management solution, Outscan NX. The utilisation of threat intelligence-led vulnerability prioritisation technology (VPT), along with automated network and cloud security assessment, provides a risk-based approach to vulnerability management that cuts…

For Cybersecurity, the Tricks Come More Than Once a Year

Anyone who pays attention on April Fool’s Day has learned to think twice about the information they read, the links they receive and the people who try impersonating others. The irony, though, is that while we’re hypervigilant against these harmless…

New API Report Shows 400% Increase in Attackers

Today Salt Security have released the findings from their latest Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q1 2023, which found that there has been a 400% increase in unique attackers (over 4800) in the last six months. The report…

New Research Examines Traffers and the Business of Stolen Credentials

Today, Outpost24 released a new report revealing the underground operation of Traffers, cybercriminal organisations reshaping the business of stolen credentials. The Rising Threat of Traffers report, compiled by Outpost24’s Threat Intelligence team, KrakenLabs, provides a deep dive into the credential…

Cymulate’s 2022 Cybersecurity Effectiveness Report reveals that organizations are leaving common attack paths exposed

Cymulate, the leader in cybersecurity risk validation and exposure management, today released the company’s “2022 Cybersecurity Effectiveness Report” which analyzed the results of over a million security posture validation assessments, including 1.7 million hours of offensive cybersecurity testing within Cymulate’s production environments. The report…

Fortune 500 Company Names Found in Compromised Password Data

New research released by Specops Software outlines the most common Fortune 500 company names that show up in compromised password data. The Specops research team analysed an 800 million password subset of the larger Breached Password Protection database to obtain these…

Ferrari Data Breach: The Industry has its say

Apparently, the team at Ferrari may not have been up to speed with the latest ways to ensure your security is top priority. It was announced on Monday via a statement uploaded to their website that Ferrari was “recently contacted…

How Emerging Trends in Virtual Reality Impact Cybersecurity

As information technology continues to evolve, more and more people are penetrating cyberspace. Most organizations, companies, individuals, and even governments are now doing their activities in the digital world. This allows them to enjoy great benefits such as instant access…

TikTok to be banned from UK Government Phones

The UK has announced a ban on TikTok on government phones, becoming the latest country to have banned the Chinese-owned video app over raised security concerns. The microscope has been on TikTok in recent months and has come under increased…

Guild Education controls API abuse with Salt Security

Salt Security, the API security company, is working with Guild Education, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, to implement the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing application programming interface (API) ecosystem. Guild relies on APIs…

Nine In 10 £5m+ Businesses Hit By Cyber Attacks

Almost nine in 10 UK businesses turning over more than £5 million annually have experienced a cyberattack, according to new research from Forbes Advisor. The study questioned senior decision makers across a range of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), finding…

Why API Security is a Growing Concern for UK Companies

APIs are everywhere. They power the web applications that connect today’s digital world, and their use will only continue to grow as more organisations adopt digital transformation initiatives and shift towards cloud-based solutions.    This API sprawl presents major security…

WH Smith personnel details targeted in cyberattack

High street stationery and book retailer WH Smith disclosed it has been the target of a cyberattack affecting employee and personnel data. It stresses that customer accounts and databases were not affected by the attack as they are stored on…

The future of cyber insurance

Cyber insurers are losing money. Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk…

Synopsys report reveals dramatic growth in open source use

Now in its 8th edition, the Synopsys “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report launched earlier this week. The 2023 OSSRA report examines the results of more than 1,700 audits of commercial and proprietary codebases involved in merger and acquisition transactions…

CyberSmart Raises £12.75m in Series B Funding Round

CyberSmart has announced the completion of its Series B funding round, raising an additional £12.75 million following its initial Series A investment of over £8 million.  Oxx led the oversubscribed round, with participation from British Patient Capital, Legal & General Capital and Solano…

Salt Security Thrives in the Channel

Salt Security has increased signed partners and deal registrations as global enterprises accelerate adoption of dedicated API security to protect their critical digital innovation initiatives. The API security company announced it has experienced strong worldwide channel growth, expanded coverage globally…

Armis appoints Brian Gumbel as President

Armis, the asset visibility and security company that recently became cybersecurity’s newest centaur, has announced the promotion of Brian Gumbel to President with immediate effect. The company says Gumbel will provide enhanced go-to-market (GTM) strategic guidance across the entire business,…

Digital Transformation EXPO Manchester (DTX)

Digital Transformation EXPO Manchester (DTX) is the North’s biggest enterprise IT and technology event, covering the latest in cloud, infrastructure, data, DevOps and cyber security. This will be co-located with Unified Communications EXPO (UCX), the leading event on modern workplace…

Dragos Report Identifies Two New Threat Groups

Dragos have released the findings from their annual Year in Review report for 2022. The report covers the state of the industrial sectors and the threats against them. Significantly, the report disclosed the identification of two new threat groups: CHERNOVITE…

Dragos Report Identifies Two New Threat Groups

Dragos have released the findings from their annual Year in Review report for 2022. The report covers the state of the industrial sectors and the threats against them. Significantly, the report disclosed the identification of two new threat groups: CHERNOVITE…

UK second most targeted nation behind America for Ransomware

After closely monitoring the most active ransomware groups in 2022, the KrakenLabs team at Outpost24 are sharing their latest report that delves deep into the significant ransomware trends, threat groups, victim profiles, and motives behind these attacks from the past year.…

UK second most targeted nation behind America for Ransomware

After closely monitoring the most active ransomware groups in 2022, the KrakenLabs team at Outpost24 are sharing their latest report that delves deep into the significant ransomware trends, threat groups, victim profiles, and motives behind these attacks from the past year.…

$400,000 Fine for Stalkerware App Developer

A fine of over $400,000 has been handed to the developer of several stalkerware apps, alongside an order to modify the software. A consortium of 16 companies owned by Patrick Hinchy produced apps that snooped users, including DDI Utilities, PhoneSpector,…

Ransomware attack halts London trading

Ion Markets, a financial data group crucial to the financial plumbing underlying the derivatives trading industry, has fallen prey to the cybercrime group Lockbit.  The company has revealed that 42 clients have been affected by the attack, which has caused…

Ransomware attack halts London trading

Ion Markets, a financial data group crucial to the financial plumbing underlying the derivatives trading industry, has fallen prey to the cybercrime group Lockbit.  The company has revealed that 42 clients have been affected by the attack, which has caused…

JD Sports admits data breach

JD Sports has warned customers that bought items on its website, as well as those of Size?, Blacks and Millets, between November 2018 and October 2020 may have been impacted in the breach. The company has urged customers to be…

Acronis seals cyber protection partnership with Fulham FC

Acronis, a global and visionary cyber protection company, today announced a three-year partnership with London´s oldest professional football club, Fulham FC. EveryCloud.co.uk will support Acronis as its ‘Strategic #Cyberfit’ delivery partner providing its cutting-edge cyber protection solutions and cloud backup…

#MIWIC2022: Carole Embling, Metro Bank

Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2022’s Top…