Cyber Security

Attackers are targeting under-resourced suppliers with weaker defences as a way of disrupting or compromising larger organisations. 

At Hannover Messe, Germany, BlackBerry released the 'BlackBerry Manufacturing Cybersecurity Study' with a warning that outdated and unsupported legacy operational technologies (OT) are exposing substantial vulnerabilities for UK manufacturers facing escalating threats from nation-state attacks.

The endpoint protection platforms (EPP) market is predicted to be worth $3,980 million in 2023 and rise to $10,323.09 million by 2033. Initially, the global market was expanding at a CAGR of 7.9% from 2018 to 2022.

Thales’ HELIXVIEW is a new C3-compliant Cabin Baggage Explosive Detection System (EDS CB) that is set to revolutionise airport security with its X-ray nanotechnology-based electronic scanning and 3D imaging reconstruction. It is set to land its certification by the end of 2023.

ChatGPT has been at the forefront of many minds since its release last year, and for good reason. The AI-driven natural language processing tool has already been used by underground hacking communities to discover how it can help facilitate cyber attacks and support malicious operations.

Synopsys has announced it will showcase the Fast Application Security Testing (fAST) offerings that represent the latest capabilities and features of the Polaris Software Integrity Platform at RSA Conference, 24—27 April 2023, in San Francisco.

With the ever-developing cyber threat landscape and increasingly demanding consumer expectations, balancing cyber security and customer experience needs can be very challenging for an organisation.

Ransomware attackers extorted $456.8 million from victims in 2022, 40% down from the $765.6 million in the previous year.

Direct Insight, the UK-based, technical systems integrator and reseller of system-on-module (SoM) and other embedded systems, has signed an agreement with ITTIA, the global provider of secure, high-performance time series data management software for embedded systems and real-time IoT devices.

According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, 92% of organisations were victims of phishing in the past 12 months, and 86% experienced negative consequences as a result.