Wednesday, 02 September 2026

The Risk Advisory Group plc has appointed Michael Whittington as Director and Head of Employee Screening. Michael is a former Senior Managing Director of Kroll Background Screening (EMEA) and a highly knowledgeable Employee Screening executive, with over 20 years of industry experience. Michael was a co-owner and director of FPR Limited, which was acquired by Kroll in 2004, where he subsequently remained for four years before moving on to work at Barclays Global Retail Bank within their HR Risk & Governance function. Michael returned to the employee screening industry over 18 months ago.

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Underwritten by Venafi, groundbreaking research quantifies the financial impact of cryptographic key and digital certificate management failures; identifies most alarming threats

London: Ponemon Institute and Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, have announced the 2013 Annual Cost of Failed Trust Report: Threats & Attacks. This new annual report provides the first extensive examination of how failure to control trust in the face of new and evolving security threats places every global enterprise at risk. Based on survey participant expectations, organisations are projected to lose $35 million (USD) over the next 24 months. This estimate is based on a total possible cost exposure of $398 million per organisation. These and other conclusions are based on new primary research conducted by Ponemon Institute among Global 2000 organisations based in Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Recent news of hacks on Facebook and Apple have reported that these were done by exploiting Java vulnerabilities. Below is a comment by Tal Be'ery, Web Research Team Leader at Imperva on why how there is an increase in Java vulnerabilities and how to protect ourselves and companies against attacks.

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  15. Cyber Espionage campaign targeting MacOS systems and Uyghur community



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