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New Survey By Kaspersky Lab Shows Cyber Attacks Are Alive And Kicking

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What’s more, half of the companies surveyed experienced between one and five IT security incidents in the past 12 months. “As Preparedness among all departments in the organization — such as executive leaders, engineers, IT security teams and more — is key to protecting against cyberattacks.

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Kaspersky Lab’s New Survey Found 65 Percent Of Companies Are Worried About IoT

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Kaspersky Lab , the security company, announced Tuesday (June 26) a new “State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2018” survey, which found that 65 percent of organizations globally believe that OT/ICS security risks are more likely with IoT over the next year.

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Bitcoin Daily: Australia’s RMIT To Offer Grad Certificates In Blockchain Business, Cybersecurity

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The Graduate Certificate in Blockchain-Enabled Business and the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security will provide students with the skills that they need in emerging areas of expertise, per the report. A PWC survey before the pandemic indicated that over 80 percent annual blockchain growth rates should be expected until 2025.

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Cyberattack Closes Web Access To Canadian Government Agencies 

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“The credentials used in the attack came from previous, non-government of Canada data breaches,” said Scott Jones, head of Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security, the agency that leads the government’s response to cybersecurity attacks. Last month, a national survey found more than 80 percent of U.S.

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Employees aware of cyber threats but not acting upon it

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Just 56% of UK firms believe they have sufficient cyber security skill in-house to deal with increasingly potent and mission critical cyber attacks. Databarracks’ annual Data Health Check Survey questioned 400 IT decision-makers on a series of critical issues relating to their IT,

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre found a wave of cyberattacks taking advantage of COVID-19 in the U.S. In fact, they are malware seeking to steal peoples’ information, the survey said. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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BIS To Open Four New Innovation Hubs Over Next Two Years

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“With this expansion, the Innovation Hub will be well placed to advance work on a broad range of issues of importance to the central banking community, including digital currency and digital payments, cyber security, distributed ledger technology and artificial intelligence,” he said, according to the release.