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First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Cyber crime costs small businesses £785m

Cyber crime costs small British firms a collective £785 million each year, according to research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).Conducted in partnership with the Home Office and Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), the study ... [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

Entities: Cybercrime, Small Businesses, UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Cyber security task force launched in California

Government officials in California have come together with private sector leaders in an effort to develop a new cyber security task force.It is hoped the creation of a comprehensive strategy for the US state - the first of its kind in the country - will ... [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

Entities: Cyber Security, Task Force, Cyber Attack

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Clearswift

Data breaches impossible to measure due to a lack ...

Data breaches impossible to measure due to a lack of reportingThe number of data breaches which occur in the UK is impossible to accurately measure because people in IT security jobs often do not report them.This is according to Seth Berman, executive ... [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

Entities: Business Continuity, Seth Berman, Clearswift

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Yahoo Japan Corp

Yahoo Japan hit by cyber attack

Yahoo Japan has confirmed it was subjected to a cyber attack that may have resulted in up to 22 million login names being compromised.A file of ID details was stolen during the attack, which houses about one tenth of its 200 million members, the company ... [Published Acumin - May 21 2013]

Entities: Yahoo Japan Corp, Cyber Attack, Yahoo! Inc, Paul Jones, Softbank Corp

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Security Forensic Analyst

Our client is a leading systems integrator with a strong security practice that is growing and whose ambition is to become a recognised force in the UK Digital Forensic Investigation market.They are looking for a Technical IT Forensics Investigator to ... [Published Acumin - May 17 2013]

Entities: Forensics, Forensic Analysis, Security

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Internet Explorer named most effective browser aga...

Internet Explorer named most effective browser against malware attacks by studyAn independent study performed by NSS Labs has looked into which internet browsers stand up to the threat of malware best.The results found Internet Explorer 10 users were ... [Published Acumin - May 17 2013]

Entities: Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Cyber Attack, Apple Safari

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

UK government gives £7....

UK government gives £7.5m to universities to train cyber security expertsThe UK government is to provide £7.5 million in funding to help universities train high level cyber security experts.Two universities will benefit from the programme - Royal Holloway ... [Published Acumin - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cyber Attack, Cyber Security, UK Government

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

US directly blames China for cyber attacks

The US government explicitly accused China's military of committing cyber attacks on the computer systems of the US government and the defence contractors.A Pentagon report is the source of the accusation and is the first time the Obama administration ... [Published Acumin - May 16 2013]

Entities: Cyber Attack, China, Military/Armed Forces, Government of the People's Republic of China, United States Government

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Majority of websites had at least one vulnerabilit...

Majority of websites had at least one vulnerability in 2012Most websites had at least one vulnerability in the past year, the latest WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report has found.The report collects information from tens of thousands ... [Published Acumin - May 03 2013]

Entities: Vulnerability, Cyber Attack, WhiteHat Security

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Mobile Security Handset Development Engineer

Key work on the securing of major applications on Market leading Mobile Handset Operating Systems:strong C++ and Assembler for ARMrecent experience working on mobile OS programmingDevelopment and review of detailed technical designsclosely aligned with ... [Published Acumin - May 02 2013]

Entities: Mobile Security, Mobile Operating System, Penetration Testing, Windows Phone, BlackBerry

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Cyber security R&D centre 'will help organisations...

Cyber security R&D centre 'will help organisations defend against attacks'A new cyber security research and development (R&D) centre has been set up to help combat the ever-increasing threat of attack.In order to help firms find and implement solutions, ... [Published Acumin - May 02 2013]

Entities: Cyber Security, NIST National Institute of Standards & Technology, Research & Development, Venafi Inc, Cyber Attack

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Outbound Marketing Sales Professional

required for a security vendor.You will be working with a cross-functional team of marketing, product and field sales members and will have experience of a wide range of concepts, market trends and effective demand-generation techniques in the high-tech, ... [Published Acumin - May 01 2013]

Entities: Security Software, Security

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"Those working relationships need to be strong in order to really affect this area. We all own a piece of that infrastructure, so it's a shared responsibility" she added

Cyber security task force launched in California [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

"Even companies hit by cyber attacks do not have a good idea of the threats facing them because they tend to put their heads in the sand" he told Computer Weekly

Data breaches impossible to measure due to a lack ... [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

"Cyber crime poses a real and growing threat for small firms and it is not something that should be ignored" said Mike Cherry, national policy chairman at the FSB

Cyber crime costs small businesses £785m [Published Acumin - May 24 2013]

"Businesses are facing more cyber attacks than ever before, putting their confidential information and intellectual property at risk" he remarked

UK government gives £7.... [Published Acumin - May 16 2013]