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• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Business failing to see strategic value of cyber security

  UK businesses are failing to get value out of cyber security because they fail to see its strategic importance and often have a negative attitude towards security professionals, a study has revealed

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  AWS now accredited to run protected workloads in Australia

  Accreditation from the Australian Cyber Security Centre will enable organisations to store and process sensitive data in the Amazon Web Services Sydney region

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Facebook’s objections to court concerns over privacy more about ‘optics’ than facts

  Facebook’s challenge to a High Court ruling that raises serious concerns about data transfers between Europe and the US is more about appearance than facts, lawyers for the Irish Data Protection Commission told Dublin's Supreme Court

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  MPs challenge Huawei over spying allegations

  The chair of the cross-bench Science and Technology Committee has written to Huawei seeking answers over its activities in the UK

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Time to deploy strong authentication, says Fido

  The time has come for organisations to deploy cryptographically backed strong authentication, according to the Fido Alliance, which seeks to eliminate the world’s dependence on password-based security

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  US issues emergency directive to halt DNS hijacking

  US government agencies have been given 10 days to complete a four-step action plan to stop DNS hijacking attacks

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  IBM mobile cyber range starts European tour in London

  IBM’s mobile cyber range is kicking of a tour in London to raise awareness around the need for tried and tested cyber attack responses among organisations in Europe

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Young Dutch cyber criminals get re-education rather than jail time

  Young hackers in the Netherlands are being rehabilitated through punishments that educate rather than incarcerate

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Ransomware in decline, report confirms

  The trend of cryptomining replacing ransomware as the most popular money-generating activity by cyber attackers appears to be confirmed by malware stats for the past year

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  London cyber innovation centre expands global ties

  London innovation centre Plexal has announced international partnerships aimed at boosting global cyber security cooperation

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Davos 2019: Why data sharing is key to AI in Industry 4.0

  Machines can learn from humans, but no one does the same job in the same way, so it makes sense to identify best practices

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  €50m GDPR fine for Google is a wake-up call for tech giants

  The French data protection authority has fined Google €50m for contravening EU data protection laws, which has been hailed as a warning for tech giants and other data handling firms

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Name and shame firms with poor cyber security, government told

  The government should name and shame companies whose cyber security measures fail to protect consumers’ data and firms should implement Active Cyber Defence, an academic report urges

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Public procurement key to cyber security

  Using public procurement as a means of boosting cyber security is the top recommendation for 2019, according to a report based on expert views

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Home Office vetoes privacy campaigner from senior post in surveillance watchdog

  The Home Office refuses academic and privacy campaigner, Eric King, security clearance for a senior role at the intelligence services watchdog, despite high-level backing from officials

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Five issues for SMEs to consider when adopting encryption

  Encryption is still considered difficult to deploy and use as a data protection method, especially by small businesses, but considering five key factors can make adoption easier, says Becrypt

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Prepare for no-deal Brexit, says ICO

  The UK data protection authority is urging businesses to prepare for a no-deal Brexit to ensure there is no interruption in data flows from Europe

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Breach of nearly 2.7 billion records underlines password flaws

  Potentially the biggest personal data breach to date from thousands of sources, some possibly breached as far back as 2008, illustrates the deeply flawed nature of password-based authentication, say industry commentators

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Threat intelligence boosts security training

  Security professionals in training can now benefit from real-time threat intelligence data, thanks to a partnership between Digital Shadows and Immersive Labs

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  CenturyLink opens Singapore SOC amid security services boom

  US telco’s second Asia-Pacific security operations centre in Singapore is one of eight globally as it bids to carve a slice of the security services market

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  New Zealand faces more state-sponsored attacks

  Nearly four in 10 cyber security incidents recorded by the National Cyber Security Centre were the work of state-sponsored threat actors

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Dutch pharma firm Centrient switches out MPLS for Cato SD-WAN

  Centrient Pharmaceuticals, a Netherlands-based drug company, has switched out its global MPLS service in favour of a high-performance software-defined WAN from Cato Networks

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Researchers discover new Magecart group

  Security researchers have uncovered a sub-group of the Magecart hacking group, highlighting the wider risks of web-based supply chain attacks

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Davos: World leaders need to grasp future technological risks

  Technological advancement is both a benefit and risk to society, but often the risks are not identified until they are exploited

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Millions of industrial remote controllers open to attack

  Millions of industrial remote controllers are open to cyber attack because of vulnerabilities in the radio frequency technology used, a study has revealed

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Businesses fail to apply encryption technology effectively

  Most businesses are not applying common encryption tools effectively to contain the fallout and costs of data breaches, research shows

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Less than half of firms able to detect IoT breaches, study shows

  UK firms have one of the lowest internet-of-things device breach detection capabilities in Europe, a study reveals

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  SingHealth and IT supplier fined S$1m for data breach

  Singapore’s data protection commission considered the fact that both SingHealth and its IT supplier fell prey to sophisticated threat actors, among other factors, when meting out the fine

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Why CIOs need to reshape desktop IT for Windows 7 end of support

  With a year to go before Windows 7 reaches end of life, IT departments have more than just the operating system upgrade to consider

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Top UK hacker-for-hire jailed

  Notorious British hacker-for-hire jailed for cyber attacks on a Liberian telco after an international criminal justice operation

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AI application overlooked in cyber security research

  Despite the proliferation of cyber security products and services claiming to be driven by artificial intelligence, the application of the technology is being overlooked by research, a study shows

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Right to be forgotten is not global, says EU court adviser

  The right to be forgotten should apply only in the European Union, according to the chief adviser to the European Court of Justice

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  UK firms say £6.6bn annual security testing cost too high

  Avord launches platform to reduce the multibillion-pound annual cyber security testing cost that most UK firms say is too high

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Germany races to boost cyber defences after breach

  Germany is scrambling to improve its cyber defences before the European parliamentary elections after a student leaked politicians’ personal data

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  2FA bypass tool highlights top business security vulnerabilities

  CEOs are the most likely target of two-factor authentication phishing bypasses, demonstrated by a security researcher’s proof-of-concept attack

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  FireEye gears up email security for emerging threats

  Email continues to be a top means of initiating cyber attacks with new detection bypass techniques and executive impersonation capabilities continually emerging, research shows

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  NHS Digital chief information security officer resigns

  Robert Coles, who joined NHS Digital as its chief information and security officer in October 2018, is stepping down from the role for personal reasons

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Second Lorca cohort to focus on supply chain security

  The second cohort of companies to benefit from the new London cyber innovation centre will focus on user-centric security and securing supply chains

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Protego Labs launches serverless app security tool

  Security professionals and developers now have a way to assess the security of their serverless applications with a new open source testing tool donated to Owasp

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Boards need to be active partners in cyber defence

  Board members must be active governance partners in collaborative cyber defence, says US regional information sharing and analysis organisation

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  BlackBerry licenses security tech to IoT device makers

  BlackBerry is to license its secure software development technology to the makers of internet-connected devices to boost IoT security

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  UK contactless card fraud surges

  Fraudsters stole £1.18m from contactless users in 2018, with the average theft size also increasing

• January 07, 2019 07 Jan'19

  Almost half of containers in production have vulnerabilities, study finds

  More containers are being deployed in production, but many businesses are unaware if they are secure

• January 06, 2019 06 Jan'19

  Singapore Airlines’ software glitch exposed customer data

  More than 280 members of the Krisflyer frequent flyer programme had their personal information compromised by a one-off software bug

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Modern IT underlines need for zero-trust security

  The increasing complexity of supply chains and interconnectivity of IT systems means the attack surface is widening and security has to evolve accordingly, warns British computer scientist

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Data breaches affected more than a billion people in 2018

  The personal information of more than a billion people was compromised in 2018 as companies holding the data failed to keep it safe

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  German politicians’ data leak shows need for global action

  Hacked data includes contacts’ email addresses, private chats, mobile numbers, photographs and credit card details, which were published on Twitter

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  Phishing attacks hidden by custom fonts

  Security researchers have uncovered a new way in which phishing attacks are evading detection.

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  IT regulators and practitioners need common language

  There needs to be greater understanding between lawmakers and technologists to ensure regulations do not have unintended consequences, says a US computer security researcher and bug bounty pioneer