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Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Cyprus and Czechia have collaborated to dismantle an online cryptocurrency scam, resulting in the arrest of six Austrians allegedly behind the scheme. The investigation, supported by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the orchestrators of a purportedly new cryptocurrency launched in December 2017.  Following six house searches, authorities seized over EUR 500,000 in cryptocurrencies and EUR 250,000 in fiat currency and froze numerous bank accounts. Additionally, assets, including two cars and a…

Alex Gay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Adobe Document Cloud  Most business today can be described as MORE—more technology, more meetings, more projects, more data, and more documents. Coupled with the increasing expectations to do more with less, it’s a lot for knowledge workers to handle. In fact, according to MIT Sloan, 80 percent of knowledge workers experience information overload and it’s impacting productivity. Adobe’s Future of Digital Work survey reported that knowledge workers waste nearly…

Data breaches and device losses within UK government departments have potentially put the information of over 10,000 customers at risk. The findings come from Apricorn, a manufacturer of hardware-encrypted USB drives, based on a compilation of annual Freedom of Information (FOI) responses. Disclosed today, the figures reveal alarming statistics regarding breaches reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during 2023. According to the company, HMRC’s declaration of 18 breach…

By Claude Mandy, Chief Evangelist at Symmetry Systems Organizations depend on data to operate. From day-to-day operations to strategic decisions, data is what keeps an organization ticking. As digital transformation marches on, the volume of data generated by businesses grows exponentially – and data security challenges grow with it. Here, we will explore some of the most common challenges organizations face when it comes to securing data, the risks associated with them, and best practices…

The AI systems the document mostly focuses on fall into the unacceptable risk and high-risk categories. The former includes banned AI applications, such as those assessing individuals based on socioeconomic status. The EU also prohibits law enforcement from performing real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces, and it’s also against emotion recognition in the workplace and at school. The latter category covers areas like critical infrastructure, exam scoring, robot-assisted surgery, credit scoring that could deny…

Stephen Khan, Chief Business Information Security Officer at Cognizant Technology Services, has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Hall of Fame Award for Infosecurity Europe 2024, as announced by Infosecurity Group. During the event he will also deliver the highly anticipated Infosecurity Hall of Fame Annual Lecture on the Keynote Stage titled “Four Attributes Companies Want from a Security Leader, and Why?”. His address will delve into why companies pay considerable fees to…

A growing number of tech sector security leaders are unhappy at their level of compensation, with budgets declining and many failing to get a raise last year, according to IANS Research. The Boston-based research specialist teamed up with Artico Search to compile The Compensation, Budget and Satisfaction Benchmark for Tech CISOs, 2023–2024. It was written up from interviews with 149 tech sector CISOs at organizations ranging from less than $100m in annual revenue to more…

The Rolling Stones wanted to protect their space; we, as security practitioners, need to protect ours. Data ‘castles’ in the cloud are out there, and they’re constantly under siege. By drawing inspiration from a band that embodied personal freedom, we can draw some – okay, very stretched – parallels to modern cloud security. Nonetheless, they work. And we all knew this blog was coming. And if you read the blog backward you can hear the…

As technologies advance and the world grows more complicated, collaboration and coordination have become increasingly important. Setting standards, sharing information, and bringing experts together are essential to safely developing technologies for national and global priorities, and the world needs organizations to fulfill this role.  The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Society of Automation (ISA) are two such organizations. While separate entities, the ANSI/ISA are closely linked and share many of the same…