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• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Government DPOs challenged by volume of GDPR work

  Data protection officers working across the UK government are finding it tough to keep up with the increased workload generated by GDPR, according to a report

• September 06, 2020 06 Sep'20

  Why predictive threat intelligence is key

  Threat intelligence startup Cyfirma is using virtual agents to gather intelligence on potential cyber attacks that are being coordinated in underground forums before they occur

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Lockdown sees increase in girls applying for GCHQ cyber courses

  The shift to online learning saw an increase in participants for its CyberFirst cyber security training programme, GCHQ found

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Phishing scam targets Lloyds Bank customers

  Bank customers warned of emails and SMS messages that direct them to a fraudulent site and then request account log-in details

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Only 10% of tech talent have cyber skills to fill skills gap

  The UK has a growing need for cyber skills as a result of the pandemic, but few IT professionals have the skills firms actually need

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  One actor behind Magecart skimmer kit

  RiskIQ has identified that variations in software tools used for Magecart ecommerce site attacks are based on kits from the same group

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  UK businesses hardest hit financially by fallout from cyber attacks, research shows

  Latest edition of Hiscox’s annual cyber readiness report suggests UK businesses are among those worst affected by the financial fallout from cyber attacks

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  New normal of remote working compounds enterprise security challenges

  Sudden changes in priorities, poor network visibility and lack of time cited by Juniper Networks as key issues for security professionals struggling to cope with new norms

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  How Certis is digitising security operations

  Certis has developed more than 50 applications in a year to help employees do their jobs better and has set up an AI centre to tap the potential of robotics and video analytics in security

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Northumbria University suffers major disruption after cyber attack

  Some exams cancelled as university appoints external specialists to investigate incident

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Mobile workers to form 60% of total US workforce by 2024

  IDC offers more evidence of how Covid-19 has changed the face of work in the US, with CIO investment in mobile-based management and security systems to take precedence in 2020 and beyond

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  UK government unveils next steps in digital identity plans

  Long-awaited response to July 2019 consultation highlights private sector demands for digital identity support from government

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  Norway’s corporates want government to support ‘herd immunity’ to cyber attack

  Leading business organisations in Norway call on government to play a more active role in improving and coordinating the country’s cyber defences

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  Vint Cerf: Why everyone has a role in internet safety

  The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of internet connectivity. Vint Cerf talks to Computer Weekly about the challenges the internet now faces

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  New Zealand activates security services as DDoS outage enters fourth day

  New Zealand government calls in its national cyber security agencies to help investigate a continuing cyber attack on the country’s financial systems

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Machine learning wards off threats at TV studio Bunim Murray

  TV studio behind reality hits including The Real World and Keeping Up With The Kardashians turned to Darktrace’s Antigena email protection service to keep its people safe from Covid-19 threats

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Benefit fraud: Underground trade in stolen identities revealed

  A roaring underground trade in stolen identities is undermining the Universal Credit system and could potentially defraud it out of millions of pounds

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  DDoS downs New Zealand stock exchange for third day

  Distributed denial of service attack from overseas has left stock exchange offline for days

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT

  This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  NHS whistleblowers’ anonymity at mercy of inadequate trust IT policies and processes

  They were clapped in the streets for their bravery at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, but some NHS staff who raise workplace concerns are suffering abuse as a result

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  TikTok CEO clocks off

  TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned from the firm after just three months

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Avaddon ransomware operators having a go at double extortion

  The operators of the Avaddon ransomware seem to be tooling up to leak the data of their victims in addition to holding it to ransom, Cofense researchers confirm

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Government must urgently prioritise digital identity, says tech sector

  TechUK calls on government to make digital identity a focus of its digital strategy as the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the ‘urgent need’ for digital IDs

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Microsoft wins on public cloud trust

  IT spending set to grow in 2021, with many organisations buying more public cloud services. Security and trust are top buying criteria

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  North Korea’s Lazarus targets cryptocurrency vertical

  APT group behind the infamous WannaCry incident is targeting cryptocurrency operators, according to new research

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  TikTok takes Trump to court

  Under-fire video app TikTok files a formal complaint in the federal courts challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to ban it in the US

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  TikTok’s GDPR compliance probed amid accusations of data misuse

  Dutch privacy organisation SOMI claims TikTok falls short in protecting young users, and that it is likely violating GDPR

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  MPs accuse ICO of failing to do its job on contact-tracing data

  Cross-party group of MPs say the ICO has failed to enforce data protection standards or hold the government to account over the unlawful Test and Trace programme

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Australian regulator sues RI Advice for cyber security lapses

  The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is suing RI Advice for cyber security breaches at the financial firm’s authorised representatives

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  UKAS rejects ISO certification concerns

  UK’s certification body says refreshed guidance is in place to cover the possibility of lapsed ISO certifications

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Social media data leak highlights murky world of data scraping

  A data brokerage left its database of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles exposed to anybody who cared to access it

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  HMRC investigates over 10,000 Covid-19 phishing reports

  HM Revenue & Customs received thousands of reports of coronavirus phishing scams exploiting its name during April, May and June

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: Thousands of ISO certifications set to lapse

  Delays and postponements in the auditing process are putting hard-earned security and data protection certifications at risk of lapsing

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Marriott slapped with class action lawsuit over 2018 breach

  Group action brings together millions of victims who stayed at the Starwood hotel chain over a four-year period

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Carnival cruise lines hit by ransomware, customer data stolen

  Cruise ship operator is likely to be the victim of a major data breach after customer information is apparently stolen in a ransomware attack

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Reports Oracle to enter TikTok bidding war

  Oracle may be about to make a bid to acquire the US operations of TikTok from its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to the FT

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic

  With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  The Security Interviews: How Crest is remaking the future of consultancy

  Crest president Ian Glover taught himself cyber security while working on government computing systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Now he is on a decade-spanning mission to change security consultancy models

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  ICO acknowledges GDPR concerns over A-level results scandal

  Information Commissioner’s Office says it has engaged with exams regulator Ofqual after its use of an algorithm to calculate A-level grades backfired

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  US decision to file new charges against Julian Assange ‘astonishing and potentially abusive’

  Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a potential abuse of process

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Russia’s Fancy Bear targets Linux environments with Drovorub malware

  The Russian intelligence-linked Fancy Bear group is deploying a new malware called Drovorub against Linux environments as part of a cyber espionage operation, according to US warnings

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal

  Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Oracle and Salesforce sued over online ad tracking

  Class action lawsuits filed in Amsterdam and London will accuse Oracle and Salesforce of breaching GDPR in their processing and sharing of personal data to sell online advertising

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Ed Sheeran is not promoting investment opportunities, says NCSC

  The National Cyber Security Centre has issued a new warning after uncovering a series of online scams promoting fraudulent celebrity-endorsed investment opportunities

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  APAC consumers do not feel responsible for data security

  Just one in four consumers believe they should protect their own data, underscoring the tightrope between security and convenience that organisations have been walking on

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  EU and US start discussions on ‘enhanced’ Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement

  Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  How Dharma ransomware became an effective services business

  New research looks under the bonnet of a Dharma ransomware attack, with the ransomware's ease of use being particularly dangerous for small to medium-sized enterprises

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits

  Microsoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Security training body Sans Institute hit by data breach

  Around 28,000 items of personally identifiable data were lost in a phishing attack on Sans, proving that even the professionals can be caught out

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court

  In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws