August ’22 a bumper month for high-impact vulnerabilities

The disclosure of multiple impactful and, critically, widespread vulnerabilities and proof-of-concept (POC) exploits made August a busy month for patching, with urgent updates needed for users of Apple and Google products, while... Read more »

Prince’s Trust teams with threat management specialist in skills push

Youth charity The Prince’s Trust has teamed up with Adarma, an Edinburgh-based supplier of threat management services, to launch a scheme aimed at empowering 21- to 30-year-olds to pursue careers in cyber... Read more »

Hotel group IHG confirms cyber attack after two-day outage

UK-based hospitality multinational IHG, the operator of hotel chains such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Kimpton, among many others, has confirmed it has been targeted by an as-yet unknown threat... Read more »

Cyber threats to Europe’s grid: Utilities rethink strategy

On 26 August this year, Montenegro’s state infrastructure was hit by an “unprecedented” cyber attack, and national government officials expressed alarm.   “Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons, but... Read more »

Security Think Tank: The many dimensions of DevSecOps

“Is SAST done? DAST too? Great – we have DevSecOps!” I have heard this assertion recently more than I had expected. Moving to a DevSecOps approach is more than just doing code... Read more »

Campaigners call on Truss to change UK’s archaic hacking laws

The CyberUp coalition, a group of businesses, trade associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and lawyers drawn from across the cyber security community have called on the incoming prime minister Liz Truss to quickly... Read more »

Bus company Go-Ahead fighting off cyber attack

Go-Ahead Group, one of the largest bus operators in the UK, with franchises covering cities including Brighton, Hull, London, Newcastle, Oxford and Plymouth, has confirmed it is dealing with a cyber attack... Read more »

Saudi Arabian organisations choose to outsource to improve cyber security posture

Saudi Arabia is impacted by the same kinds of cyber attack as the rest of the world. But the geopolitical situation in the region means there is a different set of perpetrators... Read more »

How Okta is regaining customer trust after a cyber attack

To have created the position of vice-president of customer trust yourself just weeks before your organisation becomes the focus of a major cyber security incident demonstrates the kind of prescience that an... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Good procurement practices pave the way to app security

Making and keeping a company’s IT infrastructure safe and secure from unauthorised intrusions or malicious actions has always been challenging. With the increased use of cloud computing, coupled with a need to... Read more »