Over 90% of organisations find threat hunting a challenge

Executing essential cyber security operations tasks during the threat hunting process is an increasingly challenging proposition to the vast majority of organisations, with 93% of those polled for a Sophos report saying... Read more »

Three-day Capita outage was result of cyber attack

A major IT outage at outsourcer Capita that began on Friday 31 March has been confirmed as the result of a cyber attack of a currently undisclosed nature. The incident downed some... Read more »

Mounting Russian disinformation campaign targeting Arab world

The UK’s Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) has warned of a mounting Russia-backed disinformation campaign targeting Arabic speakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), spreading propaganda and false narratives to... Read more »

Ukrainians bust cyber criminals who stole over £3m across Europe

Ukraine’s national Cyber Police unit has taken down a major cyber criminal operation that defrauded people across Europe out of over UAH 160m (£3.5m) in a major phishing operation, making two arrests... Read more »

Use backup encryption to protect data from would-be thieves

The key to data integrity is reliability and trust at all times. Backups are a vital part of data and application recoverability and must always be secure. Encryption is essential to data... Read more »

OSC&R supply chain security framework goes live on Github

The backers of the Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference (OSC&R) framework for supply chain security has gone live on Github, enabling anybody to contribute to the model. The MITRE ATT&CK-like framework... Read more »

NCSC issues revised security Board Toolkit for business leaders

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a fresh package of expert support aimed at CEOs and other senior business leaders, with the aim of encouraging them to take a... Read more »

NHS Highland rapped over data breach affecting HIV patients

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Highland over a “serious breach of trust” after the health service inadvertently exposed personal details of patients likely to be accessing... Read more »

Reactive approach to cyber procurement risks damaging businesses

Too many organisations are taking a reactive approach to procuring cyber security services and solutions, reaching for the phone only after a problem has arisen, and thus hindering the ability of security... Read more »

Preventing artificial deception in the age of AI

The UK government’s whitepaper on the regulation of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry confirms the sector’s growing importance. It employed more than 50,000 people and contributed £3.7bn to the economy last year... Read more »