In a recent episode of the Cybersecurity Sessions podcast, Netacea CTO Andy Still quizzed Beacon CTO Stewart Boutcher about ‘artificial engagement’, a term Stewart has championed as a member of the Data and Marketing Association North Council. …

In this month’s episode, we’re talking about ad fraud and the role bots play in this lucrative space. Marketers care intensely about engagement and pay advertisers good money to get it, but how do they know they aren’t paying for visits from malicious bots? …

The cybersecurity culture of an organization encompasses the knowledge, awareness, attitudes and behaviors of employees regarding the threat landscape, cybersecurity and information technologies. Strong cybersecurity culture starts with building awareness and encouraging best practice cyber-hygiene, normalizing these behaviors so they become second nature to your team. Why is creating a cybersecurity culture important?

In a world driven by digital business, enterprise security needs to be continuously monitored and improved to keep up with evolving cyber-threats and to ensure data protection across the web. As the corporate, office-based workforce evolves to become more permanently remote, increased access control to business assets is needed for…

The impact of AI on cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic of discussion within the information security industry. Cyber-threats are rapidly increasing in volume. In part, this is because the attack surface for cybercriminals is huge, and it continues to grow and evolve at a lightning pace. …

Aside from executing physical attacks on servers, hardware or people, there are three main access points where criminals can break into systems: web, mobile and API. In this post, we’ll focus on mobile security, an area increasingly being exploited due to a sharp rise in mobile device use over the…

What is OpenBullet? — OpenBullet is a testing suite of software allowing users to perform requests on a target web application. The open source tool can be found on GitHub and is used by businesses for various legitimate purposes including scraping and parsing data and automated penetration testing. Although designed to aid security professionals…

Spam filters are essential. Without them we couldn’t cut through the noise of phishing scams and malware links to read our messages. Hatred of spam is well entrenched in society, just as bots (especially scalpers) have become the bane of so many lives in recent years. There are several parallels…

Our world is driven by technological innovation. Recent years have seen many companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology to analyze larger data sets and perform more complex tasks with faster and more accurate results. This is not limited to technology-based industries such as computer science — now…