Security News

100,000 laptops and phones left in UK bars each year (Help Net Security)
2015-12-08 07:23

UK bars guzzle up a staggering 138,000 mobile phones and laptops each year, and alarmingly 64 percent of the devices do not have any security protection installed, which means anyone can gain access t...

Infosec pros have little confidence in UK's cybersecurity readiness (Help Net Security)
2015-12-04 07:24

Tenable Network Security asked information security practitioners from the UK about confidence in their respective organizations' abilities to assess risk, invest in appropriate tools and successfully...

A double whammy of tech support scam and ransomware hits US, UK users (Help Net Security)
2015-12-03 14:26

Tech support scams and ransomware usually don't go together, but there's a first time for everything. Symantec researchers have spotted a generic tech support scam hitting mostly US, UK and Canadia...

How UK businesses plan to tackle security threats in 2016 (Help Net Security)
2015-11-30 07:00

81% UK IT decision makers experienced some sort of data or cyber security breach in their organisation in 2015, according to training company QA. 66 per cent said that the breach had led to a loss of ...