Despite an increase in cybercrime of 48 per cent from 2013 to 42.8million[1], the equivalent of 117,339 attacks a day, a recent survey has found that global information security budgets have decreased by four per cent[2] over the same period. Security spending as a percentage of IT budgets has remained stalled at 4 per cent or less for the past five years.
Ghosts and zombies aren’t the only things coming back from the dead this Halloween.
Leading IT security experts are also witnessing a frightening number of viruses and cyber attacks rising from the grave. From Zombie botnets to data security demons, the threat landscape is a dark and dangerous place this Halloween…
Below is a list of the top security threats that organisations should be most aware of, because these are the ones that always come back from the dead…
Vigilance can report that Researchers at City's Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) have won a £400,000 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to carry out work in communicating and evaluating cyber risk to industrial control systems.
Last year, Black Friday took on a new meaning for many Americans when Target point-of-sale systems nationwide were compromised resulting in the theft of more than 40 million payment card numbers. Throughout 2014, companies including Neiman Marcus, Home Depot, PF Chang’s, Goodwill Industries, Supervalu Supermarkets, JP Morgan Chase, Sally Beauty Supply, and K-Mart also announced they had been breached. This frequency and scale have us all thinking “Who’s next?” As a result, you may be wondering, “What can I do to protect myself this holiday season?”
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