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Hackers and cybercrime prevention

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  How Google and Mandiant are forging synergies in cyber security

  Google’s AI smarts and Mandiant’s intelligence on new and emerging threats could lay the foundation of proactive security

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Online scam victims lose an average of £1,000 each

  New data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows victims of online fraud lose an average of £1,000 per person

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Volume of self-reported breaches to ICO jumps 30%

  The number of self-reported breaches to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office soared by nearly 30% in the 12 months to 30 June 2022

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  MoD recruits Immersive Labs to bolster cyber resilience

  UK’s Ministry of Defence will run cyber drills and address its security talent gap with Immersive Labs’ CyberPro, Cyber Crisis Simulator and Application Security products

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals have World Cup Qatar 2022 in their sights

  Volumes of malicious cyber activity around the upcoming FIFA World Cup are already starting to tick upwards and are likely to continue to do so

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Optus earmarks A$140m to cover cost of data breach

  Optus sets aside A$140m as an exceptional expense for a customer remediation programme following a massive data breach that affected 10 million customers

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  UK’s National Cyber Advisory Board convenes for first time

  Government convenes National Cyber Advisory Board to further its goals of making the UK one of the safest places to live and work online

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Why Sophos is bullish on managed security services

  Sophos has grown its managed detection and response business to more than $100m over the last three years as more organisations grapple with the increasingly complex cyber security landscape

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  NortonLifeLock, Avast debut new ‘Gen’ identity

  The combined NortonLifeLock and Avast consumer cyber business, Gen, says it will serve over 500 million customers worldwide

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Microsoft: Nation-state cyber attacks became increasingly destructive in 2022

  The willingness of nation-state actors to conduct destructive cyber attacks is a source of grave concern, as Microsoft’s latest annual Digital Defence Report lays bare

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine

  Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Automated threats biggest source of cyber risk for retailers

  Threat actors targeting retailers during the coming holiday season are increasingly turning to automated forms of cyber attack, according to a report

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Global coalition reaffirms commitment to fight ransomware

  Representatives of 36 countries, as well as the EU, attended the second International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit in Washington DC

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Dropbox code compromised in phishing attack

  Cloud storage service says malicious actors successfully accessed some of its code within GitHub, but insists customer data is secure

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  UK spent £6.4m on secret cyber package for Ukraine

  Westminster has revealed for the first time the existence of a previously top-secret security programme that has been helping Ukraine fend off Russian cyber attacks

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  NCSC looks back on year of ‘profound change’ for cyber

  The NCSC ramped up its support for UK plc in the past 12 months, but it was events beyond the UK’s borders that proved the most impactful

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Cyber crime officer says French legal challenges to EncroChat are ‘hype’

  Matthieu Audibert, officer of the French Gendarmerie’s cyber space command, gets into a spat with defence lawyers on Twitter over the lawfulness of evidence from the hacked phone network EncroChat

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Government ups cyber support for elderly, vulnerable web users

  DCMS announces a funding boost to help the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups stay safe online and avoid being misled by disinformation

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  NCSC’s Levy steps down after 20-year intelligence career

  NCSC technical director Ian Levy bids farewell, telling his successor: ‘Don’t panic’

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  NHS to get new national CISO

  The Department for Health and Social Care is seeking a new national CISO, who will be tasked with providing strategic cyber leadership, direction and expertise across DHSC and the wider NHS

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  LinkedIn adds new features to safeguard user privacy, security

  Social media platform is adding a number of features and systems designed to protect legitimate users from inauthentic profiles and activity

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Medibank breach casts spotlight on data security

  Health insurer Medibank Private recently suffered a major data breach involving the personal and health information of millions of customers, once again casting the spotlight on data security in Australia

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Santander calls for cooperation to tackle APP fraud

  New report puts forward key recommendations that the banking sector, government and other industries could take to tackle authorised push payment fraud

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Cuba ransomware cartel spoofs Ukraine armed forces

  Ukrainian cyber experts issue a warning over the activities of the Cuba ransomware cartel

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Australia budget closes in on digital divide, cyber resilience

  Australia’s latest budget is geared towards providing better broadband connectivity in regional and rural areas, shoring up the cyber security posture of its businesses and plugging tech talent shortages, among other areas

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Apple patches new iPhone zero-day

  Apple’s latest patch fixes yet another zero-day, as security issues keep surfacing in its mobile products

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Dutch lawyers raise human rights concerns over hacked cryptophone data

  Dutch defence lawyers say in an open letter that there is a risk of unfair trials unless they are allowed to test the reliability and legitimacy of hacked cryptophone evidence

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Germany: European Court of Justice asked to rule on legality of hacked EncroChat phone evidence

  Berlin’s Regional Court has asked the European Court of Justice to answer questions about whether the use of hacked EncroChat phone evidence complies with European law

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Global digital trust market to double by 2027

  The global market for digital trust technology is expected to double to $537bn by 2027, up from $270bn today as demand for cyber security and other capabilities continues to grow

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Complacency biggest cyber risk to UK plc, says ICO

  Information commissioner John Edwards warns against complacency as his office issues a multimillion-pound fine to a building company that failed to prevent a ransomware attack

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Half of staff might quit after a cyber attack, report says

  Findings from a survey of CISOs, IT leaders and staffers reveal how experiencing a cyber incident may take a larger-than-thought toll on employee retention

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Ransomware crews regrouping as LockBit rise continues

  Overall ransomware activity dropped off in the third quarter of 2022, but increasing attack volumes in September may herald a difficult few months ahead

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Treat cyber crime as a ‘strategic threat’, UK businesses told

  The government’s new National Cyber Advisory Board aims to help elevate cyber discussion and spur action in the business community

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Malicious WhatsApp add-on highlights risks of third-party mods

  Kaspersky researchers discovered a malicious version of a widely used WhatsApp messenger mod, highlighting the risks of using so-called mods

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Annual costs of Hackney ransomware attack exceed £12m

  Hackney Council reveals new insight into the ongoing cost of a ransomware attack that devastated its systems two years ago

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Advanced: Healthcare data was stolen in LockBit 3.0 attack

  Advanced has revealed a total of 16 of its health and social care sector customers had their data exfiltrated in a recent ransomware attack

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Australia becoming hotbed for cyber attacks

  Research by Imperva shows an 81% increase in cyber security incidents in Australia between July 2021 and June 2022, including automated attacks that doubled in frequency

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Cyber training firm KnowBe4 bought by private equity firm

  Acquisition of KnowBe4 supposedly reflects the success the company has seen since its spring 2021 IPO

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Unsung Heroes Awards celebrate diversity in cyber community

  The seventh annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards recognise those trying to improve diversity and mental health in cyber for the first time

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Dutch influence standards for post-quantum cryptography

  Cryptology group at Dutch research institute is involved in the two primary algorithms of the next NIST portfolio comprising four new standards

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  French Supreme Court rejects EncroChat verdict after lawyers question secrecy over hacking operation

  France’s Supreme Court has sent a case back to the court of appeal after police failed to disclose technical details of EncroChat hacking operation

• October 10, 2022 10 Oct'22

  Ukraine and EU explore deeper cyber collaboration

  A Ukrainian delegation has met with officials from the EU’s ENISA cyber agency to explore deeper cooperation on cyber security issues

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Australia to amend telecoms regulations following Optus breach

  Amendments to Australia’s telecoms regulations are in the works to temporarily allow sharing of individuals’ identifier information between telcos and financial institutions

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Italian Supreme Court calls for prosecutors to disclose information on Sky ECC hacking operation

  Italy’s Supreme Court says Italian prosecutors and police should disclose information on how they obtained intercepted messages from the Sky ECC cryptophone network

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Inside Dell Technologies’ zero-trust approach

  Dell Technologies’ zero-trust reference model starts with defining business controls and having a central control plane that manages all the security aspects of an organisation’s infrastructure

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  France extradites Spanish EncroChat cryptophone distributors for complicity with organised crime

  Three phone sellers have been extradited from Spain to France to face charges that they were complicit in the activities of criminal EncroChat phone users  

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Security regulation cuts online payment fraud at 73% of retailers

  New online payments security standard, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), sees immediate fall in fraudulent payments to retailers

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Five startups to join NCSC for Startups initiative

  The NCSC has invited five startups to join its NCSC for Startups programme to help the government with pressing cyber challenges facing the UK

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Failure of Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine is most important lesson for NCSC

  Russia has so far failed in its attempts to destabilise Ukraine through cyber attacks due to strength of Ukrainian, security industry and international efforts