Paying for ransomware doesn’t always mean you get your data back
Agreeing to ransom demands does not guarantee the safe return of data following a ransomware attack, a new report from security firm Sophos suggests. Polling 5,400 IT decision-makers from organizations all over the world, Sophos found that just eight percent of ransomware victims managed to get all their data back after paying the ransom. Almost a third (29 percent) got …
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Over 5 billion personal records have already been leaked in 2021
We’re not even halfway through 2021 and more than five billion data records have already been leaked, according to a report from Atlas VPN. The largest proportion (3.27 billion) came from a new compilation of data gathered in previous breaches. Called COMB, or Compilation Of Many Breaches, the database contains email addresses and passwords attached to users of various popular …
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Businesses failing to understand the value of IoT
An increasing number of manufacturers no longer understand the business value that the Internet of Things can bring to the table, a new report by Ubisense argues. The software company polled 300 managers, directors and high-level executives from the industrial manufacturing community in the UK, USA, France and Germany, and published the results in its “A lost year for IoT …
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Many firms expect to migrate to the cloud in full within five years
Today, roughly five percent of organizations have moved their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In five years’ time, however, that number is expected to swell to 64 percent. This is according to a new report from cloud management company CloudCheckr. In its annual Cloud Infrastructure Report, the company says the majority (57 percent) of the organizations it surveyed have …
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Hybrid working will not be an automatic success
Hybrid working has the potential to transform the lives of office workers. Whether this transformation will be for the better, or worse, depends on business owners and how they tackle the various challenges ahead. These are the conclusions of a new report report published by GitLab and Qatalog, based on a poll of 3,900 workers, which claims that remote and …
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The cybersecurity recruitment landscape is changing rapidly
The cybersecurity recruitment landscape is changing rapidly, and the approaches and techniques that worked yesterday, most likely won’t apply tomorrow. This is according to a new report from the non-profit association of certified cybersecurity professionals, (ISC)2. Polling more than 2,000 cybersecurity pros and jobseekers in the US and Canada for the report, the company found that organizations that exclusively seek …
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It’s the end of search as we know it, (and I feel fine)
This May a fundamental change in search is coming, and it’s like no other we’ve seen before. For the first time, Google is dedicating a major algorithm update to user experience. It marks a significant change in Google’s approach, no longer content with just providing results, but including how a page performs when people engage with it as well. Until …
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EU countries have already seen over €30 million in GDPR fines in 2021
European regulators are committed to holding organizations to account for their data protection practices and have issued plenty of fines in just the first three months of the year This is according to a new report from financial publication Finbold, which states that EU businesses were fined €33.61 million ($40.56m) in Q1 2021 for “various violations” of the General Data …
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Business email compromise more costly than most other fraud attacks combined
Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of cyber-fraud in which attackers use compromised email accounts to launch attacks on businesses, is growing both more popular among cybercriminals and more devastating. This is according to a new report from TradingPlatforms.com, which claims that BEC was more costly than most other frauds combined in the US last year. In 2020, the FBI’s …
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Extensive planning key to maximizing value of the cloud
Cost-effectiveness is among the chief reasons businesses decide to migrate to the cloud. However, many organizations struggle to achieve significant savings, as they fail to properly plan ahead and are often met with unexpected costs. This is according to a new report from multi-cloud service provider Aptum, which explains the difficulties in achieving visibility over different workloads and control over …
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