Month: August 2016

More than half of UK companies have been hit by ransomware in the past year, a study on the impacts of this popular attack method has revealed

Ransomware threats to businesses are rocketing, and UK firms are among the hardest hit, according to new insights from Malwarebytes. The firm surveyed 540 CIOs, CISOs and IT chiefs at organisations with...

Rail operator deploys one of Europe’s largest beacon roll-outs across its stations to accommodate new audit and driver apps

The government awards a contract to startup firm Credits to supply public services with blockchain platform as a service

Synergy Research Group's second-quarter cloud infrastructure services tracker reveals that the gap between the market's biggest and smallest players is getting wider

Bitcoin values have plummeted after a hack on one of the main exchanges. The incident at Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex wiped 20 per cent off the value of the virtual currency. The Bitfinex website...

What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?

A huge 30Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) has hit hosting firm 123-reg, disrupting services and causing problems on its own website. 123-reg confirmed on its website that the attack struck at...

The use of malvertising rose by a huge 400 per cent during the first six months of 2016, according to security company RiskIQ. Malvertising relates to malware-riddled adverts served usually on dodgy...

Protecting customer data is a top priority for organisations in the Middle East as threat levels increase