The Department for Education (DfE) overhauled its security investment in the most recent financial year (FY 20-21), by increasing security courses on offer to staff from four to 44. Additionally, course participants surged from just under 7,000 in FY 19-20,…
Nearly half of remote employees engage in risky password behaviour
LastPass by LogMeIn has released findings of its fourth Psychology of Passwords global report, which revealed that while 92% of people know that using the same password or a variation is a risk, 65% still re-use passwords across accounts, drastically…
ETSI releases specifications boosting trustful end-to-end network and service automation
ETSI has announced the release of three major specifications and report developed by its Zero-touch network and Service Management (ZSM) group. ETSI GS ZSM 003, defines end-to-end network slicing management and orchestration architecture blueprint and solutions, and ETSI GS ZSM 009-1 specifies the…
Group report on encrypted traffic integration released to protect users from attacks
ETSI’s Industry Specification Group on Encrypted Traffic Integration (ISG ETI) has concluded the early part of its work, by identifying problems arising from pervasive encrypted traffic in communications networks. In the group’s first report, ETSI GR ETI 001, entitled Encrypted Traffic Integration…
‘Bad bots’ make up nearly two-fifths of all internet traffic
A new report from Barracuda networks has revealed that automated traffic takes up nearly two-thirds of internet traffic (64%) – and whilst just 25% of automated traffic was made up by good bots, such as search engine crawlers and social network bots,…
Politicians under cyber attack: preventing attacks and leaks of confidential information
Various organisations, firms and offices, are being broken into more frequently than before through digital identity theft. Politicians have been affected as well. Leaks of important and confidential data from email accounts or inappropriately secured applications are more and more…
Funding to help organisations fight against encrypted traffic threat
Venari Security, the defender of encrypted networks, has announced it has raised a Series A funding of £4.2m with a post money valuation of £14.2m. With some of the best known and most influential figures in the cyber security industry…
National Crime Agency rescues over one million victims of cyber crime
The National Crime Agency (NCA) and its subset, the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) have safeguarded over one million victims of cyber crime, according to official figures. The data, contained in the NCA’s recently published annual report and accounts for the most…
Security is a top priority as IoT market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2027
Driven by increased adoption of smart sensors integrated into connected devices, the Internet of Things market segment is projected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2027. These devices are being made and sold by some of the largest technology companies in…
Ransomware attacks have surged by 64% in the last year
Ransomware attacks targeting global businesses have increased by 64%, year over year, according to data contained in new Threat Spotlight research from Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and provider of cloud-enabled security solutions. Barracuda researchers identified 121 incidents of ransomware…
