Top cyber criminal earnings outpace those of business leaders

An expert cyber fraudster can make as much as £6m in a year, more than three times the 2020 average salary of a FTSE 100 chief executive, and even rookies are raking... Read more »

Nature of cyber war evolving in real time, says Microsoft president

Just as World War I saw the emergence of air forces as a battlefield tool, Russia’s war on Ukraine is demonstrating in real time how quickly warfare evolves to incorporate new technologies,... Read more »

Red teaming will be standard in Dutch governmental organisations by 2025

With some government organisations in The Netherlands already using red teaming, the state CIO has commissioned research into red teaming programmes to see if a blue print of these tests could be... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Yes, zero trust can help you understand attack paths

Understanding attack pathways can be a complex task. As the number of technologies required to keep pace with the competition increases all the time, organisations must find a way to simplify the... Read more »

Security Think Tank: To follow a path, you need a good map

How do IT security teams tackle the challenges posed by the increasing use of third-party platforms and services? These changes to the way a company’s IT infrastructure is provisioned gives malicious actors... Read more »

Mastercard biometric programme will allow payment authentication by smile

Mastercard has launched a programme to set standards for biometric payment authentication which promises to allow consumers to pay with a smile. The card giant’s Biometric Checkout Program is a framework to... Read more »

Portworx adds anti-ransomware to PX-Backup for Kubernetes

Pure Storage will add anti-ransomware object locking in its Portworx PX-Backup product while the Portworx Data Services database-as-a-service offering and PX-backup-as-a-service will now be generally available, according to announcements from Pure at... Read more »

(ISC)² to train 100,000 cyber pros in UK

Up to 100,000 people who want to pursue careers in cyber security will be able to take advantage of a new programme, launched by professional trade association (ISC)², offering free training and... Read more »

Open source community sets out path to secure software

The open source community has presented a 10-point plan to improve the security and resilience of its software, bringing together more than 90 executives from 37 organisations, alongside US government officials, at... Read more »

GPDPR data scrape a ‘mistake’, says leading scientist

Significant elements of the initially proposed General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme to collect patient data from general practitioners in England to help improve frontline care in the NHS... Read more »