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UK most breached country in EU but businesses are blissfully naïve

Wed, 30th May 2018
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A study has found that despite being the most breached country, UK businesses claim to actually feel less vulnerable than their European neighbours.
Office workers

Aussie workers ready for paperless DX productivity gains – study

Thu, 1st Mar 2018
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digital transformation
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study
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modernisation
A third of office workers say they want to start using more digital tools to buy back time currently spent dealing with manual paper-based tasks.
Fallback

​Huge increase in email-borne attacks requires new thinking

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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email security
More than 205 billion emails are sent and received every day with that number increasing every year - something hackers are keenly aware of.
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Cyber warfare set to surge in 2018 but expert says Britain is not prepared

Wed, 31st Jan 2018
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government
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Cyber war has exploded and is now quite literally on our doorstep - despite this an expert claims Britain's defences are severely underfunded.
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Cybersecurity experts opine on confession it's not if but when UK is attacked

Wed, 24th Jan 2018
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industry experts
Ciaran Martin says the UK has been 'fortunate' to avoid an attack that could cause devastating disruption to elections or critical infrastructure.
Fallback

Struggling with IoT or BYOD? Here's how to overcome the main challenges

Fri, 19th Jan 2018
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network security
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iot
​The ideas of 'bring your own device' (BYOD) and Internet of Things (IoT) are a dream come true for most employees – but a nightmare for IT staff.
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Preventing data theft by combining network and application layer security

Thu, 18th Jan 2018
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
Neustar's Robin Schmitt talks how cyber-criminals are utilising web and application layer security and how to stay one step ahead.
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'No way' to stop sale of 46 million Malaysians' personal data after crippling breach

Tue, 14th Nov 2017
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cybersecurity
A cyber breach has left data from 46 million Malaysian mobile users for sale at RM32,000. Once bought, there's 'no way' to halt its sale or misuse.
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Biggest data centre event in Ireland just around the corner

Tue, 14th Nov 2017
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dc
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colocation
Now in its sixth year, DataCentres Ireland is the biggest national event of its kind acting as a data centre strategy guide with the latest solutions.
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Revisiting the 7 bold predictions for the connected enterprise from 2017

Fri, 10th Nov 2017
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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blockchain
Interconnection is the enabler for new opportunities between businesses and greater innovation when leveraging new digital technologies.
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The rise of ransomware and how businesses can prevent it from happening

Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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ransomware
The Digital Shadows CEO delves into one of the main tactics behind extortion - ransomware - and how businesses can defend themselves.
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South Africa overtakes other nations in leapfrog up cloud curve

Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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iaas
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cloud services
The country may have been late to the party when it came to cloud strategies, but the Routed MD says this has resulted in some positives.
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Living off the land: How malware is on the verge of becoming fileless

Thu, 20th Jul 2017
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symantec
'Living off the land' may at first sound like farms and vegetable patches, but it is quickly gaining a new meaning for cyber attackers and threats.
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Nokia's latest Threat Intelligence Report: Smartphone malware skyrockets 400%

Tue, 28th Mar 2017
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firewalls
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ddos
Malware infections on smartphones rose nearly 400% in 2016, according to the latest Threat Intelligence Report from Nokia.
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Unstoppable: Ransomware will evolve – here's what you need to know

Thu, 26th Jan 2017
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ransomware
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ai security
Endpoint protection company CrowdStrike says that ransomware attacks are going to evolve rapidly, making it difficult for organisations to defend.
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The odd, 8-year legacy of the Conficker worm

Tue, 22nd Nov 2016
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microsoft
Conficker's legacy lingers eight years after it first emerged, infecting 11 million devices worldwide and costing up to USD $9 billion in cleanup.
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Internet of Things or Internet of Trouble?

Thu, 3rd Nov 2016
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iot
The recent cyber-attack in the US has raised concerns about the potential threat to New Zealand from the Internet of Things.
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APAC malware and botnet threats charge ahead rest of the world

Mon, 31st Oct 2016
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ddos
Fortinet's latest report has revealed global cyber threat trends, showing that malware and botnets are targeting APAC more than anywhere else.
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Arbor Networks marks 20 years of DDoS attacks against ISPs

Tue, 20th Sep 2016
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ddos
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arbor networks
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cyber attacks
Arbor Networks has marked a worrying celebration: 20 years of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have attacked ISP networks.
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CDNetworks explains the brute force of XOR.DDoS attacks

Thu, 11th Aug 2016
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ddos
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open source
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windows
The XOR.DDoS creates huge volumes of of data and meaningless strings in a SYN flood attack, crippling Linux PCs - and Windows too, says CDNetworks.