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The Digital Shadows CEO delves into one of the main tactics behind extortion - ransomware - and how businesses can defend themselves.

The country may have been late to the party when it came to cloud strategies, but the Routed MD says this has resulted in some positives.

Webroot’s new global chief executive has flagged Australia and New Zealand as an area of ‘great potential’ for the cybersecurity vendor.

Turrito Networks warns that small and medium-sized businesses in South Africa are most susceptible to ransomware attacks.

‘Living off the land’ may at first sound like farms and vegetable patches, but it is quickly gaining a new meaning for cyber attackers and threats.

Cybersecurity can seem daunting for Kiwi SMBs, which is why Exeed has come up with a solution for resellers to take advantage of.

Malware infections on smartphones rose nearly 400% in 2016, according to the latest Threat Intelligence Report from Nokia.

Endpoint protection company CrowdStrike says that ransomware attacks are going to evolve rapidly, making it difficult for organisations to defend.

InfraScale gears up partners with robust tools to combat the surge in ransomware, aiming to secure businesses against costly cyber threats.

Conficker’s legacy lingers eight years after it first emerged, infecting 11 million devices worldwide and costing up to USD $9 billion in cleanup.

Lack of vision, credibility, or ability to influence will keep 40% of CIOs from attaining leadership roles in enterprise DX by 2017.

The recent cyber-attack in the US has raised concerns about the potential threat to New Zealand from the Internet of Things.

Fortinet's latest report has revealed global cyber threat trends, showing that malware and botnets are targeting APAC more than anywhere else.

Arbor Networks has marked a worrying celebration: 20 years of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have attacked ISP networks.

More than 1.1 million ransomware threats have hit Australia this year alone, with massive growth in both ransomware types & money lost from the scams.

The XOR.DDoS creates huge volumes of of data and meaningless strings in a SYN flood attack, crippling Linux PCs - and Windows too, says CDNetworks.

Do storage and IT admins share more in common with Clark Kent or Superman? They do face a daily battle when it comes to latency & performance issues.

Singapore businesses will find themselves in dire situations if the continue to pay lip service to data protection, a new survey by EMC reports.

There are more than 3.4 billion internet users globally with an estimated 6.4 billion IoT devices being connected, a burgeoning exchange ecosystem.

Most Kiwi firms are exposed to crippling DDoS attacks, with over 70% targeted last year and half suffering data theft, reports reveal.