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UK’s Cyber Crime Down in 2024: Better 'Cyber Hygiene Among Small Businesses

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UK’s Cyber Crime Down in 2024: Better 'Cyber Hygiene Among Small Businesses

The proportion of businesses in the UK reporting cyber attacks and data breaches has dropped from 50% to 43% in the last year. A government study has attributed this to the “observed strengthening of cyber hygiene among small businesses.” The prevalence of cyber crime overall among UK businesses and charities of all sizes has remained consistent year-over-year, according to a recent government study. Phishing also remained the most common type of cyber crime, attack, or…

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Australians Hit With One Cyber Attack Every Second in 2024

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Australians Hit With One Cyber Attack Every Second in 2024

A cyber attack hit an Australian user every second in 2024, marking a staggering twelvefold increase from the previous year. This surge contributed to a global cybersecurity crisis, where 5.6 billion accounts were compromised worldwide, equating to 176 breaches per second, according to Surfshark. The global total represents a nearly eightfold surge from 2023 when only 23 accounts were compromised per second. Australia’s data breach epidemic Australia recorded 47 million data breaches last year, up…

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Healthcare can — and must — learn from 2024’s devastating cyberattacks

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Healthcare can — and must — learn from 2024’s devastating cyberattacks

It was a rough year for cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. Providers remain opportune targets because of relatively limited security budgets, a vulnerability to downtime, valuable patient data, and insufficient monitoring of fast-scaling Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices and other network-connected equipment. Ideally, absorbing the lessons of these attacks enables healthcare delivery organizations to move faster: faster to implement sufficient protections that deter attacks with harder targets, and faster to respond when attacks do…

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Data breaches: Preventing and responding

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Data breaches: Preventing and responding

It seems as though every day, there’s news of another data breach. As the threats of data breaches continue to evolve, organizations must prepare to respond. Best case scenario, organizations will take precautionary steps to prevent breaches whenever possible. But why are data breaches such a prevalent threat to the modern enterprise? Claudette McGowan, Chief Executive Officer at Protexxa, explains, “We’ve seen this rush to digitize everything. As this world is changing and going from…

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Top 5 Cyber Security Trends for 2025

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Top 5 Cyber Security Trends for 2025

The cyber landscape is more turbulent than ever. Microsoft recently reported a 2.75-fold increase in ransomware attempts this year, while research predicts that global cyber attacks in 2024 will surge 105% compared to 2020. There is a dire need for more qualified cyber professionals as generative AI is lowering the barrier to entry for attacks. Unfortunately, cyber skills gaps have been reported in both the U.K. and Australia, with women making up only a quarter…

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools help IT organizations maintain the health, performance and user experience of business applications, according to market researcher Gartner. Such tools…

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54% of U.K. IT Pros Confident They Can Recover Their Data

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54% of U.K. IT Pros Confident They Can Recover Their Data

U.K. IT professionals are adopting a “Titanic mindset,” a study has found, unable to foresee the upcoming “iceberg” of their insufficient data recovery solutions. Only 54% expressed confidence in recovering their data and mitigating downtime in a future disaster — despite 78% of the professionals surveyed saying their organisation has lost data at some point over the last year, either due to system failure, human error, or a cyberattack. Assurestor, a provider of recoverability solutions,…

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Microsoft Reports on Progress of Revamping Security Efforts

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Microsoft Reports on Progress of Revamping Security Efforts

On Sept. 23, Microsoft released a report detailing the progress of the Secure Future Initiative, the company-wide overhaul put in place in November 2023. The Secure Future Initiative exists to improve security in the wake of some high-profile vulnerabilities in 2023. These vulnerabilities included a breach in Microsoft Exchange Online that allowed threat actors associated with the Chinese government to access U.S. government emails in 2023. In April 2024, the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board…

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Data Breaches Are Costing Australian Organisations, IBM Report Reveals

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Data Breaches Are Costing Australian Organisations, IBM Report Reveals

IBM recently released its annual Cost of a Data Breach report, revealing that the average cost of a data breach in Australia reached a record-high of AUD $4.26 million (USD $2.77 million) in 2024. This represents a 27% increase since 2020. The report also highlighted that Australian organizations continue to be most threatened by the same threats that had dominated in previous years. Furthermore, with a deep cyber security skills crisis in the country, it’s…

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Verizon 2024 Data Breach Report shows the risk of the human element

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Verizon 2024 Data Breach Report shows the risk of the human element

Verizon Business released its 17th-annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), highlighting the role that the human element plays in cyber threats. This report examined 30,458 security incidents as well as 10,626 verified breaches in 2023, representing a two-fold increase from 2022. Out of the breaches analyzed, more than two-thirds (68%) included a non-malicious human element — in other words, these incidents involved insider errors or people falling for social engineering schemes. This percentage remains consistent…

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