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Fortifying security in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle, once the site of countless bloody battles, recently became the location for discussing the war against cybercrime |
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Features
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Upping the ante with anti-malware
Combatting malware means going way beyond locating suspicious programs on servers and workstations, and detecting and interfering with the use of malware on the network |
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The human factor
The barriers that keep any organisation safe from attack are often guarded by nothing more than a single factor of authentication. |
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Young… ethical… female… and a hacker
A female student is set to play a key role in Scotland's growing battle against cybercrime |
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Passwords: the cracks are still showing
Passwords such as '123456’ and 'qwerty' are still widely used. Why are we so reckless with our security? |
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A safer harbour?
The European Commission has announced a new EU-US Privacy Shield to replace Safe Harbour as a framework for transatlantic data flows |
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Opinion
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The Gold Rush is On!
With the strongest defence against cyber attacks being a skilled and experienced cybersecurity team, lucrative careers are beckoning
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Product Review
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COMPUTING SECURITY AWARDS
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Auditing / Reporting Solution of the Year
WINNER: Fortinet - FortiAnalyzer
RUNNER UP: Assuria – CyberSense
All of the 2015 Awards results can be seen by going to:
www.computingsecurityawards.co.uk
Please note: the winning products and services will not necessarily be the only solutions or the newest solutions available from the respective suppliers. You should contact these suppliers directly to learn more about what they can offer.
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How to avoid a tangled Web
Web 2.0 aids enterprises in conducting business, but also introduces many damaging risks. Trend Micro offers its insights into Web application vulnerabilities and how to avoid these
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Welcome to the March 2016 issue of the Computing Security Newsletter
This year is shaping up to be the biggest yet for ransomware in the enterprise after the latest Trend Micro intelligence found infections among UK firms in February 2016 alone far exceeded the figures for the first six months of last year.
The stats speak for themselves: there were more than twice as many infections last month than in the entire first three months of 2015. If you add January and February’s tally together, it comes to more than triple the infection count for Q1 2015.
Ransomware has become a favourite way for cybercriminals to extort money out of businesses, with variants such as CyrptoWall and CryptoLocker causing havoc, disruption and significant monetary losses for their corporate victims.
So-called ‘crypto-ransomware’ is now by far the most common type – accounting for 100% of UK enterprise infections in February and just 1% in January, according to Trend Micro.
It can be spread via malicious adverts, email attachments, web links or even booby-trapped smartphone apps.
If the victim's machine or device is unprotected, the malware will encrypt their files and demand a fee in Bitcoin or similar within a certain timeframe to provide the decryption key. Failure to do so will result in the loss of those files forever.
How soon biometrics might become mainstream across all business sectors is now the big question, especially as cyber attacks continue to hit unprecedented levels.
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Brian Wall, Editor
Computing Security
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