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Breach Activity Declines, Number of Compromised Records Remains High

After year over year increases in the number of reported data breaches, Risk Based Security has released the results of their Q1 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report, showing the number of breaches disclosed in the first three months of the year fell to 686 compared to 1,444 breaches reported in Q1[...]

Half of All Companies Do Not Have Adequate Application Security Visibility

The Ponemon Institute surveyed nearly 1,400 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States, European Union and Asia-Pacific to understand the risk unprotected applications pose to businesses when running in unsecured environments and how they are addressing this risk.

GDPR Requirements Prompt New Approach to Protecting Data in Motion

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) means that organizations must look at new ways to keep data secure as it moves.

Google Announces the Open-Source Asylo Framework for Confidential Computing

Google announced the release of an open-source framework and an SDK dubbed ‘Asylo’ that allows developers to build applications targeting trusted execution environments.

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well.

Less Than 10% of Organizations Are Ready for Multi-Cloud

IDC has revealed that only 10% of European businesses are ready to implement multi-cloud infrastructure, with the majority of businesses sticking to one cloud vendor.

New Phishing Attack Targets 550 Million Email Users Worldwide

A new phishing campaign was discovered sending more than 550 million emails within the first quarter of 2018, according to data from Vade Secure. The threat was discovered in early January and has primarily hit users in the US, UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Azure Container Instances Now Generally Available

Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers. ACI offers an on-demand compute service delivering rapid deployment of containers with no VM management and automatic, elastic scale.

Most Companies Not Ready for GDPR, Survey Reveals

With less than a month until the GDPR comes into force, many companies will not be ready when it takes effect on May 25th, 2018. 62% of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) surveyed describe themselves as ‘confident’ in the build-up, with 1 in 5 (18%) saying they are nervous, according to WinMagic.

Release of PoC Exploit for New Drupal Flaw Once Again Puts Sites Under Attack

Only a few hours after the Drupal team releases latest updates to fix a new remote code execution flaw in its content management system software, hackers have already started exploiting the vulnerability in the wild.