The Home Office has unlawfully allowed MI5 to gather vast amounts of the public’s data by wrongly approving bulk surveillance warrants, Britain’s most secret court heard on 25 July 2022. The human... Read more »
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled proposals to establish a new Cyber Advisor service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and is asking for the security community’s input to... Read more »
A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting users of Atlassian’s Confluence collaboration platform could give a malicious actor remote access to all non-restricted pages in an organisation’s Confluence instance, and should be fixed immediately.... Read more »
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, governments from around the world imposed economic sanctions against Russia. Following this, it became apparent that private organisations needed to take action, leading to... Read more »
What is an insider threat? An insider threat is a category of risk posed by those who have access to an organization’s physical or digital assets. These insiders can be current employees,... Read more »
Workplace social network LinkedIn has emerged as the brand most imitated by cyber criminals in their phishing attacks for the second quarter in a row, accounting for 45% of all phishing attacks... Read more »
Companies could police encrypted messaging services for possible child abuse while still preserving the privacy and security of the people who use them, government security and intelligence experts said in a discussion... Read more »
A wide variety of malwares and vulnerability exploits can be bought with ease on underground marketplaces for about $10 (£8.40) on average, according to new statistics – only a few pennies more... Read more »
Two advanced persistent threat (APT) groups likely linked to the governments of Russia and its puppet state Belarus conducted a phishing campaign that targeted Ukrainian civilians fleeing the illegal shelling of their... Read more »
Security training and certification specialist (ISC)² has announced a new programme, One Million Certified in Cybersecurity, pledging to put a million people around the world through its foundation level education programme and... Read more »