All too often organisations believe that spam filters are sufficient or that employees can always tell the difference.

Barracuda announced the availability of its new platform that provides advanced threat trends in real time - along with some shocking findings.

The research showed that 44% of scanned organisations had some form of malware in at least one of their cloud applications.

“Ransomware is not a lightning strike – it can happen again and again to the same organisation."

Asia Pacific is a hotspot for ransomware, hijackers, spyware and worms and one security expert believes that the region is becoming a major target.

The creators of the Dridex banking Trojan are also responsible for FriedEx (also known as BitPaymer), a ransomware that was discovered in mid-2017.

27.2% of Australians say they don’t know how they protect their data and 46.6% don’t know what ransomware is.

Some might think that by now organisations would have come to a point where they are a step ahead of criminals.

According to the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team, there were 6506 security incidents reported last year - a 7% increase since 2017.

The generally perilous state of affairs in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) arena presents a host of challenges of its own.

Since the infamous CryptoLocker first appeared in 2013, we’ve seen a huge wave of file-encrypting ransomware variants extorting money.

These packages allow individuals with little technical skill, to attack businesses and individuals with relative ease.

​Given the digital plague around the world in 2017, it would be unseemly not to give ransomware its own dedicated piece.

​Canalys has released its latest predictions surrounding the global IT security market’s performance over the third quarter in 2017.

​Back in the day it was not uncommon for people to ransack stagecoaches and rob armoured trucks, but now they’re robbing servers.

What will 2018 bring? We’ve brought together a line-up of cybersecurity heavyweights to provide their opinions on various topics for the year ahead.

Gartner has predicted security spending to total US$96.3b in 2018, an increase of 8% from 2017 with some segments performing better than others.

Cyber attackers have been successful in causing more than $1.9 million in losses for New Zealanders since April 2017 and $1.18 million was from Q3.

AI algorithms, with all their advantages, have a fundamental problem – data sensitivity. They are trained not to understand information.

​Thought 2017 was bad? Well according to cybersecurity expert Huntsman Security, it’s going to get a whole worse.

WatchGuard Technologies has whipped up some key IT security predictions ranging from IoT botnets to Linux attacks.

While locking every door may seem obvious, making it harder for cybercriminals to physically get in should be stage one of a layered security program.

The predictions for the new year include both good news and bad news, like the biggest data breach settlement of all time and increased awareness.

In some cases, ransomware goes after the back-ups and if they are connected to the network, the data may be completely unrecoverable.