Last week’s hack of Amazon-owned Twitch saw a large amount of source code being stolen unnoticed. How can a company with, you would imagine, pretty insane levels of security in place courtesy of its parent, have left itself so vulnerable … and only find out about the breach on 4chan? There are also concerns that […]
Speaking at Chatham House’s cyber conference, the National Cyber Security Centre’s CEO Lindy Cameron has again reinforced her message to the nation’s C-suites that ransomware is “the most immediate danger to UK businesses” today, and that paying criminals serves only to perpetuate the problem. Several incidents in particular were cited; including one emanating from China […]
West Midlands Police have experienced 60,000 cyber attacks in the 12 months to June and the force is now spending almost £150,000 a years protecting itself from cyber crime, particularly phishing emails and ransomware injected into their systems. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says cyber crime cost the UK more than £1.3billion in the first […]
Most senior business execs believe IT teams should have software security under their control amid fears of another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack. Meanwhile, techies claim they don’t have sufficient budget or resources to confront the problem head-on, putting the ball right back into the management court. The vast majority of execs also think software vendors […]
NCC Group reports that ransomware attacks have risen 288% between the first and second quarters of 2021, driven by a rise in double extortion attempts, with a significant portion of all attacks resulting from phishing emails sent by the Conti group. Almost half of the victims were based in the US. “We’ve seen targets range […]
Apple has urged users to update their device software after ‘zero click’ Pegasus malware sent attributed to Israel’s NSO Group was found by Canadian Internet security watchdog Citizen Lab on a Saudi activist’s iPhone. This is the first time that a “zero-click” exploit has been caught and analysed. “After identifying the vulnerability used by this […]
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