London (UK), November 16 2011 – Varonis was honoured to receive a medal at last night’s prestigious UK IT Industry Awards, held at Battersea Parks Events Arena, in its Technology Excellence category. These annual awards are the benchmark for excellence throughout the computer industry, organised and run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing, and offer a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence.

 Speaking about the results, David Clarke, MBE, Chief Executive Officer of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT said, "The awards are very rigorously judged so to be a winner or medallist means that you really are the best of the best."

According to a report by F-Secure, the certificate was used to sign a piece of malware which has been spread through malicious PDF files, dropped after an Acrobat Reader 8 exploit had taken place.

 Tal Be’ery, Web Security Researcher at Imperva comments “Once more we are seeing an example of the growing trend in the theft of issued certificates by cyber-criminals. This time, F-Secure published an analysis of a widespread malware strain which used a stolen certificate belonging to the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development. By using the stolen certificate, the malware appears to the operating system as a legitimate application and thus evades detection.

London, UK (16 November 2011)—With the increased use of mobile devices to pay for goods and services, traditional wallets with cash and credit cards could one day be obsolete. A new ISACA white paper, “Mobile Payments:  Risk, Security and Assurance Issues,” examines this growing trend and offers guidance on managing risk and increasing security. Mobile Payments:  Risk, Security and Assurance Issues

A study from Juniper Research found that the value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and other transactions will reach almost US $630 billion by 2014.

London, UK – 18 November 2011 - Commenting on reports that a SCADA-based water system in the US has been hacked by cybercriminals - apparently based in Russia - the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say this highlights the very real dangers that hackers now pose to everyone in society.

 According to Claire Sellick, the show’s event director, the hack appears to stem from an incursion into the SCADA software vendor’s systems, raising the spectre of other water systems in the US – and elsewhere in the world – being vulnerable to attack.