Representatives of 36 countries – including both the UK and Ukraine – and the European Union (EU) have issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to tackling ransomware. They were in Washington... Read more »
Cloud storage service Dropbox has been sharing details of how it was successfully targeted by a phishing campaign in which a threat actor impersonated the code integration and delivery platform CircleCI to... Read more »
The UK government has lifted the lid on a previously top secret cyber programme that has been supporting Ukrainian government agencies and critical national infrastructure (CNI) operators from Russia cyber attacks for... Read more »
The team behind the widely used open source cryptographic library OpenSSL has patched two vulnerabilities in the service that it had previously taken the somewhat unusual step of pre-warning security teams about.... Read more »
Ransomware changes rapidly. At a technical level, attack infrastructure can change by the minute, operationally changing attack techniques while strategically targeting certain sectors, industries or regions at appropriate times. Access brokers work... Read more »
What is Basel II? Basel II is an international business standard that requires financial institutions to maintain enough cash reserves to cover risks incurred by their operations. The Basel accords are a... Read more »
Almost a third – 32% – of chief information security officers (CISOs) and decision-makers in the UK are considering quitting their current role, and a third of those think they might do... Read more »
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provided support for 18 nationally significant ransomware attacks; removed 2.1 million cyber-enabled commodity campaigns; issued 34 million early warning alerts about attacks, compromises, vulnerabilities or... Read more »
In an era when consumers are increasingly conscious of their data privacy rights – a cultural shift that is changing the relationship between them and the organisations with which they interact –... Read more »
Ever since the UK left the European Union (EU), there has been talk of reforming the data protection regime currently in existence in the UK, inherited from the EU. GDPR (General Data... Read more »