Almost all small and medium-sized businesses in America have executives who are living in fear of a cyber-attack from foreign adversaries, according to new research published today. The Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey by Zix-AppRiver found that 93% of SMB executives believe that as foreign adversaries attempt to breach national security or wage cyber-war, they will use small businesses such as their own as entry points. Two-thirds expect this threat to be more severe in 2020, when the n...
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"Everybody has hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing. And I don't doubt that the Russians are hacking us, and I hope we're doing some hacking there." Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger CBS News Face the Nati...
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"A full 90% of Android devices are running out-of-date versions of the Android operating system (OS)—posing a significant potential risk for corporate IT environments.
A similar analysis of iOS devices meanwhile revealed that 50% to 80% of Apple iPhones are out of date. Outdated iOS devices have well-known vulnerabilities such as Ins0mnia and Quicksand that make these devices susceptible to attacks."...
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The Jägermeister shot glasses are piling up along with the stories in the outside bar of Galbraith’s in Mt Eden Rd. It’s a stormswept Sunday in January, the six-month anniversary of the death of Barnaby Jack. A dozen of his friends are here to remember him in a pub he loved....
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Surgical information for more than 1,200 patients may have been compromised in February when an unknown person accessed a doctor’s Gmail account, a Chicago-area physicians’ group announced Friday....
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Hardly a day goes by without yet another organisation falling prey to a cyber attack or data breach that has led to reputational and financial losses. an unprecedented attack on its public healthcare IT systems that compromised the personal data of about 160,000 patients. The attack followed similar data exfiltration efforts in other countries across the region, including the massive data breach that hit Malaysian telcos in 2017. While the onslaught of cyber attacks being reported each day has b...
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