Security professionals warn UK government over outdated cybercrime legislation
The UK's Computer Misuse Act came into effect 30 years ago, but security professionals are warning that it is no longer fit for purpose and may even be hindering their efforts.
A coalition of businesses, trade bodies, lawyers and think tanks from across the cybersecurity industry have today taken the unprecedented step of uniting to write a letter to the prime minister urging him to reform the law.
What enterprises need to consider on the journey to digital transformation [Q&A]
Digital transformation is increasingly seen as a way for businesses to gain competitive advantage. It's often tied into the cloud and as-a-service solutions too.
But what do businesses need to take into account when starting on a transformation project? We spoke to Anthony Brooks-Williams, CEO of cloud data integration provider HVR Software to find out.
IBM launches open source tool to help COVID-19 data analysis
IBM's Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT) is releasing a new toolkit that helps developers and data scientists answer questions about the pandemic.
COVID notebooks is designed to help with tasks including obtaining authoritative data on the current status of the outbreak, cleaning up the most serious data-quality problems, collating the data into a format amenable to easy analysis with tools like Pandas and Scikit-Learn, and building an initial set of example reports and graphs.
Identifying the security risks and rewards of open source software deployments
Open source components are now at the core of many applications and a good deal of infrastructure. But what implications does this have for security?
The Information Security Forum has released a new paper, Deploying Open Source Software: Challenges and Rewards, to help security professionals recognize the benefits and perceived challenges of using open source and set up a program of protective measures to effectively manage it.
How IoT devices are putting enterprises at risk
While businesses generally take care to protect desktop and mobile computing devices, the rise in IoT usage has meant that lots of potentially less secure equipment is sneaking onto networks.
Forescout Research Labs has been assessing the risk of over eight million devices across a number of industries via its Forescout Device Cloud, a repository of connected enterprise device data.
Data privacy and identity in the age of COVID-19
With governments around the world rolling out contact tracing in order to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, access management company Okta has commissioned a survey of 12,000 people across six counties to discover how consumers feel about data privacy and identity.
It finds that 84 percent of Americans are worried that data collection for COVID-19 containment will sacrifice too much of their privacy. A majority say they are uncomfortable with personally identifiable information (67 percent), bluetooth data (57 percent), medical data (53 percent), and location data (52 percent) being collected for COVID-19 purposes.
New application security analyzer helps prevent breaches across cloud services
Most businesses now use web and cloud applications to deliver richer web experiences and better outcomes for customers. But the current generation of web security tools are poorly suited to address the frameworks, APIs and cloud microservices that are the underpinnings of these modern apps.
Now though application security firm Data Theorem is launching Web Secure, a full-stack application security analyzer that provides vulnerability analysis for modern web applications from the web-layer down to its embedded APIs and cloud resources.
Two thirds of malware is invisible without HTTPS inspection
A new report from WatchGuard Technologies shows that 67 percent of all malware in the first quarter of this year was delivered via HTTPS, so organizations without security solutions capable of inspecting encrypted traffic will miss two-thirds of incoming threats.
In addition, 72 percent of encrypted malware was classified as zero day (meaning no antivirus signature exists for it, and it will evade signature-based protections). The findings suggest that HTTPS inspection and advanced behavior-based threat detection and response solutions are now requirements for every security-conscious organization.
What's your data worth on the Dark Web?
We all know that information stolen in data breaches is often put up for sale on Dark Web marketplaces. But how much is it actually worth?
The PrivacyAffairs website has been researching Dark Web forums and market places and has found that for less than $1500 criminals can obtain genuine information and forged documents allowing them to almost completely take over someone's identity.
How giving customers a better experience can build competitive advantage [Q&A]
In a highly competitive world businesses can struggle to make themselves stand out from the competition. One of the ways they can gain a competitive edge is by providing a better customer experience.
But what does this mean in practice and how can organizations build better experiences? We spoke to Ross Freedman, co-founder and CEO of customer experience agency Rightpoint to find out.
Network operations in the new normal
The global pandemic has intensified the importance of networks, with more companies and individuals taking their worlds almost entirely online. But how is this affecting the teams that run them?
A new report from network operations specialist Kentik based on a survey of over 200 network professionals around the world shows that there's a mixed picture on productivity. 47 percent report feeling more productive while working from home, while 20 feel less productive and 33 percent say they have had no change in productivity.
Illumio brings zero trust to the endpoint
Endpoints are generally the weakest point of a corporate network and the problem is made more acute by the shift to remote working.
Illumio is launching a new endpoint protection solution that reduces the risk of ransomware and malware propagating laterally throughout an organization.
Developers need to think like hackers to prioritize fixes
As technology continues to evolve, software development teams are bombarded with security alerts at an increasing rate, making it almost impossible to address every potential vulnerability.
New research from WhiteSource, an open source security and license compliance management specialist, and CYR3CON, which predicts cybersecurity attacks based on AI-gathered intelligence looks at how development teams prioritize fixing vulnerabilities and compares this to discussions in hacker communities.
AI alone isn't enough to thwart cyberattacks
Crowdsourced security platform Bugcrowd has released a new report which shows that 78 percent of hackers on its site say AI-powered cybersecurity solutions alone aren’t enough to outmaneuver cyber attacks over the next decade.
The 2020 Inside the Mind of a Hacker report also reveals that 87 percent say that scanners can’t find as many critical or unknown assets as humans.
Is Twitter losing the right?
If you've been using Twitter over the past week or so -- especially if you're in the UK -- you may have noticed the hashtag #Twexit trending.
This is being used to signal users' intention to abandon Twitter and decamp to upstart rival Parler. So what’s going on here and why?
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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