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Endpoint security

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  European court to decide on legality of bulk phone and internet surveillance

  The European Court of Justice will decide whether intelligence agencies across Europe can continue to lawfully collect the telephone and internet communications data of citizens, following a two-day hearing this week

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Mirai descendants dominate IoT threat environment

  Attacks leveraging compromised IoT devices are growing in size, scale and frequency, report security experts at F-Secure and Trend Micro, with Mirai-related botnets a major source of trouble

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Singapore’s SecureAge eyes US market

  The Singapore-based supplier of encryption and anti-malware tools has set up a new office in Greater Washington, DC as the next logical step in its global expansion plan

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  Finland’s security agencies collaborate after cyber attacks

  National Bureau of Investigations and National Cyber Security Centre aim to increase expertise and capability to defend Finland’s critical IT infrastructure

• August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19

  VMware’s latest acquisitions point to emerging platform war

  VMware’s buyout of Carbon Black and Pivotal is a sign of an emerging platform war following the IBM-Red Hat deal

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  Kaspersky eyes enterprise business, opens APAC transparency hub

  The security firm wants to engage with enterprises and use its newly launched Malaysian Transparency Centre to burnish its credentials

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  A helping hand from the Nordics in the eye of the GDPR storm

  Nordic IT companies are well suited to supporting enterprises in their data protection projects, even though openness is more natural to them

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Silence APT group eyes APAC banks

  Russian-speaking advanced persistent threat group has set its sights on banks in the region, customising its arsenal for targeted attacks

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Malware still top security threat, say infosec pros

  Malware remains the top security threat to organisations, with ransomware still considered to be the top malware threat and lack of budget the biggest obstacle to defence, a study shows

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  How EDR is moving beyond the endpoint

  An emerging breed of detection and response offerings is going beyond endpoints to collect and decipher telemetry data from across the enterprise

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  Google finds that web users log in with compromised credentials

  People continue to use passwords that have been breached. Google has proposed a protocol, which could warn them if their credentials have been stolen

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  DCMS funding aims to increase diversity in cyber sector

  A funding round has been announced as part of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) with aims of encouraging more diverse talent into the UK’s cyber security sector

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Digital domain identified as major security threat by Norway’s intelligence service

  Norway's intelligence services has revealed the extent of the threat posed to the country by cyber attacks

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  UK finance regulator gives extra time for companies to meet payment security rules

  Financial Conduct Authority gives companies under its watch an extra 18 months to meet an EU payments security standard

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Phishing top security threat to business

  A new Telefónica security service for business shows that phishing is the most-blocked threat and smaller businesses are a popular attack target in the first two months of deployment