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71% of more than 1,000 security professionals have been on the receiving end of a Microsoft 365 account takeover, on average, seven times in the last year alone.

Fortinet EVP of products and CMO John Maddison says that the ecosystem aims to improve security, reduce complexity, and simplify operations.

Client information, HR issues and business contracts, plans, and COVID-19 test results are commonly exposed.

This unification enables a connected, interactive computing environment that combines smartphone and PC technology to deliver security capabilities and opportunities, the company states.

There is increasing importance on Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) having and developing the skill of emotional intelligence, a new report states.

Trend Micro has rolled out new extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities through a new platform called Vision One.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks surged during 2020, and their severity should not be underestimated.

Agent Tesla originally surfaced in 2014. It is widely available on criminal marketplaces, and continues to evolve.

The second wave of attacks in December and January targeted organisations that were hit the first time and did not respond or pay the ransom.

What happens when an Android malware vendor teams up with a marketer? It turns out the answer is quite a lot.

In total there were 546 reported incidents of potential data breaches in the most recent financial year, up from 463 in the previous year (2018/19).

The move is a culmination of a medley of acquisitions made by Hornetsecurity recently, following the January 2019 acquisition of Spamina, a Spanish cloud email security company, as well as EveryCloud, its British market partner, in early 2020.

"We are committed to continue offering the entire catalogue of self-paced Network Security Expert training at no cost until we see the skills gap trend reverse."

This partnership provides customers with an up to 80% less expensive solution that is faster than the competition for achieving enterprise-grade cyber-resilience, the company states.

Kaspersky researchers have identified two APT incidents that targeted entities related to COVID-19 research - a Ministry of Health body and a pharmaceutical company.

GitHub’s vice president of product management, Jeremy Epling, says that IT is increasingly relying on developers for security, testing, and responsibility for production operations.

Global losses from cybercrime are close to becoming a ‘trillion-dollar’ shackle that is weighing down the global economy.

The recognition comes after a busy year for Ping Identity, following an acquisition and new service offering amid the pandemic.

How secure is the public cloud? That’s what many IT and security professionals are asking as data leakage becomes a pressing concern for organisations and their data protection strategies.

Unmitigated vulnerabilities could give an attacker access to the device, enabling the attacker to break encryption, modify code, and run certain commands.

The company has announced the opening of a new Transparency Center, as well as the ompletion of a widespread transferal of data storage and processing activities to Switzerland.

The research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260% spike in attacks, using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security controls.

Enterprises that use Cloudflare’s reverse proxy offering Spectrum will notice a few more things on their Network Analytics dashboard this week.

To make threat research available to a wider number of organisations, Kaspersky continues to develop new functions for its Threat Intelligence Portal.