Security

Name an industry at the top of its game: one that attracts young talent, is well-attuned to social issues like politics and health, and seizes trends like the subscription model, mobile banking and cryptocurrency.

Insurance specialist, Ascend Broking, is calling for businesses to build cyber security training into every staff induction for new joiners, to try to combat the ever-growing threat to British businesses posed by cyber criminals and the malaise of what Ascend calls ‘cyber inertia’. 

Cyber security is a pressing concern for manufacturers. According to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)’s 2020 threat landscape report, there are 203,000 new strains of malware created every day and, on average, it takes companies a worrying six months to detect a data breach.

Cybereason has announced the discovery of several previously unidentified cyber espionage campaigns infiltrating major telecommunications providers across Southeast Asia. Similar to the recent SolarWinds and Kaseya attacks, the threat actors first compromised third-party service providers - but in this case, instead of using them to deliver malware through a supply chain attack, the intent was to leverage them to conduct surveillance of their cus...

When most of us think about national security, thought immediately goes to more conventional threats in the form of physical attacks on territory. Few consider the ‘behind the screens’ cyber power battles that can take down entire networks that governments, organisations and citizens rely on for protection and survival. By Roger Sels, VP Solutions at BlackBerry

Tripwire has announced the results of a new research report that evaluated cloud security practices across enterprise environments in 2021. Conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research last month, the survey evaluated the opinions of 314 security professionals with direct responsibility for the security of public cloud infrastructure within their organisation.

Lt General (Dr) Rajesh Pant, the National Cyber Security Coordinator of India, has announced that he will be addressing Pursuit 2021, a conference to technologically reduce online financial frauds. Pursuit 2021 is being organised by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is likely to be attended by 2000 delegates.

In early February 2021, the control system of the water utility in Oldsmar, USA, fell victim to an external tampering cyber attack. According to the utility's supervisor, a hacker gained access to the central control system around 1:30pm on February 5th. The hacker took control of the screen and increased the addition of sodium hydroxide (also known as lye) by a factor of hundreds. The chemical is used in water treatment to regulate the acidity o...

Over a third (36%) of employees say they have picked up bad cyber security behaviours and found security ‘workarounds’ since working remotely, according to a new report from Tessian, the human layer security company.

City of York Council has engaged the help of Barracuda Networks to help protect its Office 365 data with the security firm’s flagship product, Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. The City of York Council in Yorkshire, England, is the unitary authority responsible for allocating resources and delivering services to the more than 210,000 residents of the City of York. For Infrastructure Services Technical Lead, Ian Towner, that responsibili...