Thursday, 16 October 2025

Monday was predicted to be the biggest online shopping day ever – but the surge of online shopping in the run up to Christmas leaves organisations open to spear phishers tricking users into opening ‘order confirmation’ or ‘order tracking’ emails.

The 3rd of December was the UK’s Mega Monday – predicted to be the biggest online shopping day ever. With this influx of online purchases, employees need to beware of the ‘order confirmation’ emails that might not be everything they seem.

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Granular management of social media delivers safe enriched e-Learning experience

READING:  Northgate Managed Services (Northgate) has selected Websense, Inc., a global leader in unified web security, email security, mobile security and data loss prevention (DLP), to safely enable social media use, combat cyber bullying, and prevent malware across 1,200 Northern Ireland schools and support 350,000 students and teachers.

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Governments, financial institutions and large organisations can now protect their sensitive data with the strongest commercially available cryptography

London: Thales, leader in information systems and communications security has announced that its Datacryptor AP (DCAP) R4.02 network encryption device has received CESG CAPS Certification at Baseline and Enhanced grade. For the first time UK government customers can now make use of the remote keying feature previously only available in commercial versions of DCAP. DCAP R4.02 also now offers support for elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) helping organisations embrace the latest encryption and security capabilities without compromising performance.

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Chertsey, United Kingdom: A10 Networks™, the technology leader in Application Networking, has announced that its SoftAX virtual appliance is now available on the Amazon EC2 and VPC platforms for Web Services as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). As part of A10’s family, SoftAX is a software-based Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with advanced Layer 4-7 load balancing, application acceleration and security features. SoftAX combined with the AWS platforms enables customers to rapidly scale and optimize Cloud environments, increasing performance on demand.

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