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• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  How Tokopedia is streamlining incident management

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has improved incident management and developer productivity using a cloud-based incident management tool

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Public sector security failings leave UK at risk, says think tank

  Reform report urges adoption of new policies in the next version of the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  US Elections: Malicious internet domains spike as campaigns heat up

  Internet domains related to the US presidential election are 56% more likely to be malicious than regular ones

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Public data should not be held by US tech giants

  One-off evidence sessions to follow up on the recommendations of the House of Lords AI Committee revisit the data and ethics debate

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Fintech ‘unicorn’ Klarna probed over data misuse

  Online bank blames misuse of user data on human error as Information Commissioner’s Office weighs in

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Microsoft fixes 87 bugs in October 2020 Patch Tuesday

  Smaller October Patch Tuesday update includes fixes for critical bugs in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Trickbot forced offline in major cyber security victory

  Coalition led by Microsoft obtained a court order enabling them to take down the infamous Trickbot botnet’s back-end server infrastructure

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Five Eyes spy group again demands access to private messages

  Spooks are once again calling for the tech industry to break end-to-end encryption in messaging platforms

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Software AG caught in double extortion ransomware hit

  Data stolen from prominent German software company by Clop ransomware gang appears on the dark web

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Facebook critics’ webpage removed over false phishing allegations

  Real Facebook Oversight Board alleges Facebook is trying to censor it for speaking out against the social media company’s behaviour

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Major tech companies respond to lawsuit over mining deaths

  Multinational technology companies accused of knowingly benefiting from human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo have responded to a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for the deaths of Congolese children in their cobalt supply ...

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Magecart strikes website of school payments service Wisepay

  Magecart credit card skimmer harvested financial data of users of Wisepay’s platform over a two-day period

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  NCSC relaunches SME security guide with home working focus

  The NCSC is issuing an updated version of its guide to security for SMEs, reflecting the long-lasting changes to the world of work seen in 2020

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Crown Prosecution Service suffers 1,600 data breaches in 12 months

  CPS sees a spike in data security incidents, many of them serious enough to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Threat of GDPR fines increasingly driving security buying decisions

  Scaring the people who hold the purse strings may be the best option for CISOs who need a little extra budget

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  US lawmakers release big tech antitrust report

  House Democrats have published a report on the monopoly power wielded by big tech companies and how to restore competition in digital markets

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Department for Education failed to protect data on millions of children, says ICO

  The Department for Education’s National Pupil Database, which contains millions of items of data on the UK’s schoolchildren, was found to be non-compliant with data protection regulations across the board

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  UK accounts for 45% of Europe’s card fraud as criminals target online transactions

  Payment card fraudsters steal €1.5bn, with card-not-present attacks accounting for three-quarters of this sum

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  ICO wraps up Cambridge Analytica investigation

  Information Commissioner’s Office concludes its investigation into Cambridge Analytica, saying no additional evidence has come to light that would change its previous assessments

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  EU’s top court questions legality of UK phone and internet data surveillance

  European Court of Justice rules that the UK and EU member states must comply with EU privacy laws when harvesting people’s sensitive communications data from telecoms and internet companies

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Government deaf to loud calls for statutory public inquiry into Post Office scandal

  MPs are demanding the government holds a full statutory public inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Coronavirus raises the software audit stakes

  IT asset managers say they are receiving more requests from software publishers to check for licence discrepancies

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Ransomware attacks go through the roof

  The volume of ransomware attacks has jumped 50% in the past three months, according to data produced at Check Point

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  CISOs struggle to keep up with MITRE ATT&CK framework

  Despite its proven benefits for security, the MITRE ATT&CK framework is proving difficult for many, according to a joint study from McAfee and UC Berkeley

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  John McAfee arrested over cryptocurrency fraud

  Erratic tech baron allegedly promoted initial coin offerings without disclosing he was being paid to do so

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  Employees overwhelmingly hostile to workplace monitoring tech

  The use of workplace surveillance technologies to monitor and track staff working from home has increased hugely since the start of the pandemic, but most workers say it makes them feel uncomfortable

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  FBI seized ‘legally privileged’ material from Ecuador Embassy, claims Julian Assange’s lawyer

  The US struck a secret deal with Ecuador to seize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s property from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London days before his arrest. The haul included legally privileged documents, says his solicitor

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Honesty is the best policy: Forging a security culture in the NHS

  Clinician and technologist Sam Shah helped set up NHSX in 2019. Now he’s helping advance digital transformation in healthcare from the outside, and a big part of that is addressing security in the sector

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Future UK-EU data sharing put at risk by Brexit legislation

  When the Brexit transition period ends, UK ministers will have the power to forge new data-sharing arrangements that risk undermining the viability of future data transfers with the European Union

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Security pros face sanctions if they help ransomware victims pay

  New advisory from the US government warns cyber insurance and incident response specialists that they could be skating on thin ice if they help ransomware victims pay their attackers off

• October 02, 2020 02 Oct'20

  Justice for subpostmasters as wrongful criminal convictions are set to be quashed

  The Post Office has chosen not to contest 44 out of 47 appeals, meaning most are likely to have their names cleared, but others still face a Court of Appeal battle for justice

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  Trust in government technology is key to adoption

  Panellists at GovTech Summit 2020 speak about the need to build trust in government digital services, as the pandemic has created room for increased use of technology in the public sector

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  Blackbaud admits hackers stole banking details, passwords

  Software firm paid off a ransomware gang, believed its hackers when they said they had destroyed the data, and has now discovered the cyber criminals accessed even more sensitive information than it thought

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Threat actors becoming vastly more sophisticated

  Malicious actors have been busily honing their craft and cyber security incidents are up across the board as a result, according to a Microsoft report

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  NatWest offers online banking customers free security services

  Bank responds to a surge in cyber crime targeting users of online banking services

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  UK and US marked down on responsible AI

  The UK and US have been rated as leaders in government use of artificial intelligence, but the Nordics and Baltics attained the highest scores for responsible AI

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Sustrans opens door to NCSC cyber certification via the cloud

  Sustainable transport charity turned to Qualys to help it attain needed certifications to bid for government work

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Government updates data ethics framework

  The new data ethics framework was created to better reflect how projects are run in practice after finding there was “little awareness” of the previous framework across the public sector

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  TikTok ban stayed after last-minute court case

  TikTok’s lawyers have staved off an imminent ban for the time being, after successfully arguing that it infringed rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Security now main driving force behind digital transformation

  Organisations are urgently remodelling their core technology stack in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and this is pushing security to the top of the agenda

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Airbnb hosts’ account data exposed in internal leak

  Data exposure within Airbnb’s system was the result of a technical issue but was swiftly fixed, says the firm

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  NHS whistleblower privacy concerns passed on to regulator, but campaigners not holding their breath

  NHS Improvement chair Dido Harding acknowledges receiving concerns raised about the anonymity of whistleblowers, but campaigners have little faith that anything will be done

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Coronavirus shows inadequacy of rear-view mirror planning

  Looking at historical data has hampered businesses’ attempts to move forward effectively during the pandemic

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Can banks solve money laundering puzzle through technology?

  Banks face a huge challenge in identifying and stopping money laundering without interfering with police investigations

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Government blasted over ‘reckless’ contact-tracing security

  The Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch accuse the government of endangering public health with a reckless attitude to contact-tracing data security

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Race to patch as Microsoft confirms Zerologon attacks in the wild

  Don’t be the organisation that made the headlines because it failed to patch. Microsoft says it is seeing cyber attacks ramping up around the Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 bug

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Australians want more control over privacy

  Nearly nine in 10 Australians want more control and choice over the collection and use of their personal information amid declining trust in how organisations handle personal data, survey finds

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Over half of firms intend to continue US data transfers despite Schrems II

  Survey shows many organisations do not intend to significantly change their data-sharing practices, at least until there is more guidance from regulators or governments

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  US agencies warn of election disinformation and cyber attacks

  Federal agencies are warning of heightened disinformation as the crucial 2020 presidential election nears

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Twitter investigates image cropping algorithm for racial bias

  The algorithm’s consistent favouring of white faces in image previews has forced the company to investigate it for racial bias