ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has, since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers. ESET contributed to …
Read More »Cyber crime is “rocketing” in 2019 as more than half of British firms report attacks
Cyber crime is soaring in 2019, as more than half of British firms have already reported attacks this year. That’s according to research from Hiscox, which found that found 55% had faced an attack in 2019, up from 40% last year. Among firms reporting attacks, average losses associated with all cyber …
Read More »UK businesses hit with one cyber attack every minute so far in 2019
A new cyber threat report from Beaming has found that UK businesses were subjected to 119,659 internet-borne cyber attacks each, on average, in the first quarter of 2019. This rate of attack, which equates to one every minute, was more than double that experienced in the first three months of …
Read More »How to protect your business during a cyber attack
Swivel Secure CEO Adrian Jones offers up his advice on what to do if your technology infrastructure has been breached.
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Installing a ‘benchmark’ for all IoT gateways to give some control over the data being consumed by smart devices
Read More »Are mass cyber security attacks like WannaCry and Petya now the norm?
As the ‘Petya’ ransomware sweeps around the world, IT security experts are signalling the dawn of a new era
Read More »Security firm warns of cyber attacks on Google driverless cars
“The industry will need to be very alert to the risk of cyber manipulation and attack.”
Read More »“Mac cyber-attacks on the rise,” says Bitdefender
Security firm warns there’s been “very little publicity” around increase in alarming Mac OS viruses
Read More »UK signs up to online safety initiative
European Commission asks countries to work together to tackle cyber crime
Read More »UK facing ‘astonishing’ levels of cyber-attacks, says M15
M15 are working to counter cyber-attacks
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