by emma@themissus.co | Aug 23, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Nearly a quarter (23%) of UK office workers rely on unauthorized devices to work from home, a new study by CybSafe has found. The research revealed that poor personal cybersecurity practices are commonplace amongst workers operating outside of corporate environments,...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Only 2% of organizations have run incident response scenarios related to the pandemic response. According to research by Immersive Labs of 402 organizations, nearly 40% are not fully confident in their teams training to handle a data breach if one occurred, and 65% of...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Virtually all security professionals believe that human error could put the security of cloud data at risk, according to new research published today. A survey commissioned by Tripwire and carried out last month by Dimensional Research found that 93% of security...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Around a third (33%) of UK universities have been targeted with ransomware, freedom of information (FOI) requests submitted by the agency TopLine Comms have revealed. Of the 134 universities the requests were sent to, 105 responded. Of these, 35 (33%) revealed they...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 13, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
More than 43,000 NHS staff have been hit by phishing emails over the past few months, as they battled to save patients infected with COVID-19, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed. Think tank Parliament Street asked NHS Digital for the data on spam and...
by emma@themissus.co | Aug 3, 2020 | Advice, Cyber News, IT Security
Cloud breaches are likely to increase in “velocity and scale” due to a prevalence of poor cybersecurity practices in cloud configurations that are creating exposures. This is according to the most recent The State of DevSecOps report by Accurics, which assesses cloud...
