Tag Archives: cybercrime

Feature: Why the channel is critical for safeguarding organisations from cybercrime

Alex Walsh, channel and alliances director UK & Ireland at Veeam looks at how the channel can facilitate security and resilience. As cybercrime accelerates and ransomware continues to pose a significant threat, businesses are feeling more vulnerable than ever. According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2023,  73% of …

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Norton launches consumer identity theft defence solution

Norton has launched its Norton Identity Advisor Plus, for consumer identity protection. Steve Wilson, U.K. and Ireland Director at NortonLifeLock, says: “Unfortunately, personal information accessed through criminal tactics may result in identity theft. A hack or data breach could lead, for example, to a loan being taken out in your …

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e92plus’ Neil Langridge and Bitdefender’s Wim Cops on 20 years in the making

Neil Langridge, Marketing Director at e92plus speaks with Wim Cops, Consumer Sales Manager at Bitdefender about its 20 years in the making as a cyber-security solutions provider, current black spots within the cyber security market and measures to address these critical issues. In 2021, Bitdefender celebrated its 20th anniversary – …

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Crypto miners are the most common web threats with over 170K unique malicious URLs

According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, 177,753 unique URLs with crypto miners posed web threats from October 2020 to September 2021. Furthermore, nearly 70% of all detected web threat domains appear to be located in the United States. A total of 177,753 unique URLs with crypto miners caused 652,907 threats on the web. Cryptocurrency …

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Gaming: What risks do gamers face from cybercriminals and how can they protect themselves?

Bob Shaker, Director of Product Strategy at Norton Gaming talks to PCR about what kind of threats gamers face, and how they can protect themselves We love video games. During lockdown, the time we spent gaming increased by 34% in Europe, 42% in Asia and a massive 52% in Latin …

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Game of Thrones final season triggers spike in cybercrime

Our watch has ended. The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones finished this week, and while many have spent this season shouting at the TV, cheering on their favourite characters and getting into heavy debates with fellow fans over who deserves to sit on the throne, Kaspersky has …

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