Attacks leveraging exploits for Microsoft Office grew fourfold in early 2018

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Exploits – software that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability – for Microsoft Office in-the-wild hit the list of cyber headaches in Q1 2018. Overall, the number of users attacked with malicious Office documents rose more than four times compared with Q1 2017. In just three months, its share of exploits used in attacks grew to almost 50 per cent - double the average share of exploits for Microsoft Office across 2017. These are the main findings from Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 IT...

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Workers Savings Bank boosts security

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Slovenian bank reduces risk with One Identity Safeguard privileged access management.

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Rising nation state cyber attacks from…Lebanon and the Netherlands?

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Optiv Security has published its 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Estimate (CTIE) which details the current state of the cyber-threat landscape and uses estimative intelligence to predict how that landscape stands to change in the future. This report is generated to provide Optiv’s clients with a global view of security threats and trends, so they can effectively adapt their strategic plans to mitigate anticipated enterprise risk.

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Poland banks on blockchain

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Polish Credit Office, the largest credit bureau in CEE, commits to implementing Billon blockchain for storage and secure access to sensitive customer information.

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81% of UK marketers feel ready for GDPR, but their employers may not be

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GDPR awareness is at its highest level since 2016 and 81% of marketers feel prepared – although 7% say their employers still have no plan in place.

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Mobile emerges as the secure channel?

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80 million fraud attacks and 210m bot attacks originated from Europe in Q1 2018.

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Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware experiences in the State...
Quest Software has signed a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with...
Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company, and INTERPOL have signed a new five-year agreement to...
New Unisys Security Index™ finds almost half of Brits are unaware of SMS phishing, and more than...
Leading Fintech solutions provider selects SureCloud to simplify and manage its GDPR programme.
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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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