HAMPSHIRE: The Linx International Group has been shortlisted for two Security & Fire Excellence Awards 2017. The company has been recognised in the Best Contribution to Standards in the Security Sector and Security Consultancy of the Year categories.
London, UK: Mobile apps are still the “Wild West” of online security, finds digital threat management leader RiskIQ in its latest mobile threat landscape report. In its recent Q2 2017 analysis of 120 mobile app stores and more than 2 billion daily scanned resources, RiskIQ re-confirmed that most app stores fail to adequately protect their users from malicious and fraudulent app downloads.
ThreatMatch is a cyber threat intelligence platform that provides users with relevant, actionable and timely threat intelligence that can be tailored to their unique environments. Using a diverse and extensive range of sources, ThreatMatch provides continuous alerts on how an organisation’s attack surface correlates with the threat posed by the malicious actors targeting it.
A new study released this week by a leading security vendor (Gemalto) - the Breach Level Index for the first half of 2017 - finds that 918 data breaches led to a record 1.9 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2017, a 164% increase over the the first six months of 2016. Moreover, identity theft accounted for 74% of all data breaches in the first six months of 2017, up 49% from the second half of 2016, and malicious outsiders were responsible for 74% of breaches, an increase of 23%.
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