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With spam and phishing email being the primary vector by which malware infects computers, the best way to prevent malware is make sure your email systems are locked down tight—and your users know how to spot danger. We recommend a combination of carefully checking...

This means that the question of, say, what the difference is between malware and a virus misses the point a bit: a virus is a type of malware, so all viruses are malware (but not every piece of malware is a virus). There are a number of different ways of categorizing...

Malware—a blanket term for viruses, worms, trojans, and other harmful computer programs—has been with us since the early days of computing. But malware is constantly evolving and hackers use it to wreak destruction and gain access to sensitive information; fighting...

Technology is evolving at such a rapid rate that the parameters of security practices are in constant flux too. Security measures that were thought to be sufficient in 2017 may already be outdated, and this rate of change is only set to further accelerate this year...

Underpinning both these challenges is the issue of finding the right expertise. And, as the threat environment evolves, this will become an even bigger problem for businesses. Of course, it’s not as simple as employing more staff – as well as headcount issues,...

Cyber-attacks are continuing to increase and evolve at an alarming rate. In just the last few weeks, we’ve seen the personal data stolen from accounts of 21 million Timehop users and 40,000 UK customers of Ticketmaster. Such breaches highlight how cyber threats have...

Tripwire released its State of Cyber Hygiene report, which examined how organisations are implementing security controls that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) refers to as cyber hygiene. The survey found that almost two-thirds of the organisations admit they do...

When Samsung unveiled its first-ever 1-terabit flash chip, it promised that massive SSD storage devices would soon follow. As promised, it's now producing 4TB SSDs, and best of all, these drives are not for cloud companies or enterprises. "Samsung's new 4-bit SATA SSD...

In the days leading up to May 25, email inboxes were filled with updated privacy notices and requests for marketing consent. Web browsers saw more banners about “cookies” than they had since broadband became ubiquitous, and businesses began to consider how they were...

Most companies believe they’ve experienced serious data breaches driven by email impersonation in the past 12 months – but are not doing nearly enough to prevent future impersonation attacks, according to a new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. “With the...