Dutch national cyber security strategy aims to protect digital society

The Netherlands is one of the most digitised countries in the world. Dutch people work, live, shop and meet ever more digitally, making digital systems the beating heart of society. This offers... Read more »

Ducktail spins new tales to hijack Facebook Business accounts

After a series of operational setbacks, including having its tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) exposed on the internet by WithSecure, the Vietnam-based Ducktail cyber crime cartel has been busily evolving its operations,... Read more »

Killnet DDoS hacktivists target Royal Family and others

The Killnet collective, a group of hacktivists aligned with the Russian state’s interests, claim to have caused significant disruption to multiple websites and organisations in the UK in a wave of distributed... Read more »

C-suite mystified by cyber security jargon

Although the C-suite are now keenly aware of the threats to their organisation, and how often they are attacked, many struggle to understand the terminology that cyber security professionals would consider everyday... Read more »

Bug Bounty Calculator helps organisations fine-tune their payouts

Pen testing and ethical hacking specialist Intigriti has launched a free-to-use comparison tool that it believes will help bug bounty programme owners match their payout rates to market conditions and community sentiment.... Read more »

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter safe, and should you stop using it?

The arrival of Elon Musk at Twitter headquarters on 26 October 2022, bearing a no-doubt hastily acquired basin to deploy in the service of what can only be described as a dad... Read more »

pen testing (penetration testing)

What is a pen test? A penetration test, also called a pen test or ethical hacking, is a cybersecurity technique that organizations use to identify, test and highlight vulnerabilities in their security... Read more »

New gold standard to protect good faith hackers

Bug bounty programme operator and ethical hacking platform HackerOne has launched a Gold Standard Safe Harbour (GSSH) statement for its customers to help them demonstrate that they can and will protect ethical... Read more »

CyberPeace Institute helps NGOs improve their security resilience

The son of a Brazilian immigrant to France, Adrien Ogée reflects on how the migrant experience kindled in him a desire to transcend national borders and address imbalance in the world –... Read more »

Another Log4Shell warning after Iranian attack on US government

The compromise of an unnamed US government organisation by an Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that exploited the Adobe Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability on a VMware Horizon server has led to renewed... Read more »