Data breaches and cyberattacks are seldom far from the news, and it's an area that seldom stands still for long.

We spoke to founder and CEO of White Knight Labs, Greg Hatcher, to discuss how threat tactics are evolving and what organizations can do to protect themselves.

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IT leaders say AI solutions will allow them to accomplish more tasks in a day (78 percent) or improve their work-life balance (70 percent).

But despite this a survey of 2,500 global IT leaders from chip maker AMD finds nearly half (46 percent) say their organization isn't ready to implement AI. Just 19 percent say their organization will prioritize AI within the next year, while 44 percent forecast a five-year timeline.

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We are moving nearer to a passwordless future according to a survey from Delinea carried out at at the 2023 Black Hat USA Conference.

A survey of 100 attendees finds 54 percent say that 'passwordless' is a viable concept while 79 percent agree that passwords are evolving or becoming obsolete.

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You've probably had your dog or your cat microchipped, but how would you feel if your employer wanted to microchip you?

A survey of 5,000 senior decision makers in the finance sector reveals that 47 percent of leaders believe employee microchips and other human technology implants to be in workplace use by 2030.

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Data is one of the biggest drivers of innovation in healthcare today. Almost everything in healthcare relies on having access to the right data from developing new drugs and medical equipment to allocating resources.

Making use of this data often requires sharing with other organizations and that presents challenges when it comes to keeping it secure. We spoke to Riddhiman Das, co-founder and CEO at TripleBlind, to learn how healthcare organizations are securing their data while still making it accessible.

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Earlier this week we reported on a technique that could determine a password by listening to keystrokes. Just in case you weren't worried enough by that, today we learn of the risk of passwords being compromised by 'thermal attacks'.

These use heat-sensitive cameras to read the traces of fingerprints left on surfaces like smartphone screens, computer keyboards and PIN pads. Hackers can then use the relative intensity of heat traces across recently-touched surfaces to reconstruct users' passwords.

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The amount of data held by enterprises is growing at an alarming rate, yet it's often still being stored on 20-year-old technology.

Add to this a proliferation of different types of systems -- or even different storage platforms for specific use cases -- and you have greater complexity at a time when it’s hard to find new IT personnel.

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Ever keen to jump aboard a passing bandwagon, scammers are looking to make a quick buck by exploiting eager vacationers trying to save money when booking travel deals.

But new research from Bitdefender Antispam Lab finds that only 38 percent of analyzed travel-themed spam emails received during a three-month analysis were marketing lures, with the remaining 62 percent marked as scams.

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New research from audio visual solutions and services provider Kinly, shows that 27 percent of AV professionals believe that customer trust in their organization has been weakened by remote work.

The research surveyed 150 UK-based AV professionals working across 'high trust' industries like banking, finance, healthcare, energy, and the public sector, and reveals that communication via open Wi-Fi networks (89 percent) is the top security concern with hybrid work.

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Many organizations need help gaining visibility into the IP addresses across their whole environment in order to understand their attack surface.

New enhancements to the Detectify platform include an IP Addresses view, this lets users gain seamless access to a comprehensive list of all IPs associated with their domains.

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Critical infrastructure protection specialist OPSWAT has released its latest Threat Intelligence Trends survey looking at organizations to manage the current threat landscape and how to prepare for future challenges.

It finds that 62 percent of organizations recognize the need for additional investments in tools and processes to enhance their threat intelligence capabilities. Only 22 percent have fully matured threat intelligence programs in place though, with most indicating that they are only in the early stages or need to make additional investments in tools and processes.

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According to a new report, 84 percent of CISOs say that they are called into sales engagements related to closing sales of their company's products and services, highlighting the connection between AppSec and business growth.

The study from Checkmarx also reveals that 96 percent of CISOs say their prospects consider the level of application security of their organizations when making purchase decisions.

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Systems at the Electoral Commission, the body which oversees elections in the UK, have suffered a breach exposing electoral registers which hold the data of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The Commission’s email system was also exposed in the breach.

In a statement on its website the Commission says it identified the incident in October last year but that systems were accessed as long ago as August 2021.

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Recent developments in generative AI have led to a good deal of debate around whether jobs are at risk. Since new AI applications like OpenAI Codex and Copilot can write code, developers could be among those under threat.

We spoke to Trisha Gee, lead developer evangelist at Gradle, to find out more about how AI is likely to change the way developers work.

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A new report shows that, on average, organizations’ security controls (such as next-gen firewalls and intrusion prevention solutions) only prevent six out of every 10 attacks.

The Blue Report 2023 study from Picus Security is based on an analysis of more than 14 million simulated cyberattacks.

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