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Data breach incident management and recovery

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  NHS to get new national CISO

  The Department for Health and Social Care is seeking a new national CISO, who will be tasked with providing strategic cyber leadership, direction and expertise across DHSC and the wider NHS

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Medibank breach casts spotlight on data security

  Health insurer Medibank Private recently suffered a major data breach involving the personal and health information of millions of customers, once again casting the spotlight on data security in Australia

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Australia budget closes in on digital divide, cyber resilience

  Australia’s latest budget is geared towards providing better broadband connectivity in regional and rural areas, shoring up the cyber security posture of its businesses and plugging tech talent shortages, among other areas

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Global digital trust market to double by 2027

  The global market for digital trust technology is expected to double to $537bn by 2027, up from $270bn today as demand for cyber security and other capabilities continues to grow

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Half of staff might quit after a cyber attack, report says

  Findings from a survey of CISOs, IT leaders and staffers reveal how experiencing a cyber incident may take a larger-than-thought toll on employee retention

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Complacency biggest cyber risk to UK plc, says ICO

  Information commissioner John Edwards warns against complacency as his office issues a multimillion-pound fine to a building company that failed to prevent a ransomware attack

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Cyber professional shortfall hits 3.4 million

  Shortage of cyber security professionals continues to grow and shows no signs of abating, says report

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  NatWest data breach whistleblower demands bank pay data controller fee to ICO

  Whistleblower calls for NatWest to pay the Information Commissioner’s Office annual data controller fee, as the personal details of 1,600 current and former NatWest customers remain under her bed

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Ransomware crews regrouping as LockBit rise continues

  Overall ransomware activity dropped off in the third quarter of 2022, but increasing attack volumes in September may herald a difficult few months ahead

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Treat cyber crime as a ‘strategic threat’, UK businesses told

  The government’s new National Cyber Advisory Board aims to help elevate cyber discussion and spur action in the business community

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Annual costs of Hackney ransomware attack exceed £12m

  Hackney Council reveals new insight into the ongoing cost of a ransomware attack that devastated its systems two years ago

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Advanced: Healthcare data was stolen in LockBit 3.0 attack

  Advanced has revealed a total of 16 of its health and social care sector customers had their data exfiltrated in a recent ransomware attack

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Australia becoming hotbed for cyber attacks

  Research by Imperva shows an 81% increase in cyber security incidents in Australia between July 2021 and June 2022, including automated attacks that doubled in frequency

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  NCSC urges organisations to secure supply chains

  NCSC’s latest guidance package centres supply chain security, helping medium to large organisations assess and mitigate cyber risks from suppliers

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Contractor left Toyota source code exposed for five years

  Source code related to Toyota’s T-Connect service was left exposed on GitHub for over five years by a contractor

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Australia to amend telecoms regulations following Optus breach

  Amendments to Australia’s telecoms regulations are in the works to temporarily allow sharing of individuals’ identifier information between telcos and financial institutions

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  Inside Dell Technologies’ zero-trust approach

  Dell Technologies’ zero-trust reference model starts with defining business controls and having a central control plane that manages all the security aspects of an organisation’s infrastructure

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Failure of Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine is most important lesson for NCSC

  Russia has so far failed in its attempts to destabilise Ukraine through cyber attacks due to strength of Ukrainian, security industry and international efforts

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Optus breach casts spotlight on cyber resilience

  The massive data breach that affected more than 10 million Optus customers has cast the spotlight on API security and other factors that contribute to the cyber resilience of organisations in Australia

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally

  Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Data protection in Finland, four years after GDPR came into force

  Data privacy has always been a big concern in Finland, so the country naturally has a lot to say about the General Data Protection Regulation four years on

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access

  Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  Bank warns of spike in online cost-of-living scams

  Fraudsters are exploiting the cost-of-living crisis by tricking people into sending money to help friends and relatives pay bills, TSB has warned

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How Russian intelligence hacked the encrypted emails of former MI6 boss Richard Dearlove

  Hack by Russian-linked ColdRiver group exposed former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove’s contacts and email communications with government, military, intelligence and political officials

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Threat actors abused lack of MFA, OAuth in spam campaign

  Microsoft threat researchers have reported on a series of cyber attacks in which enterprises with lax IAM policies had their systems hijacked to conduct spam email campaigns

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Nordic private equity firms pursue cyber security acquisitions

  Increasing interest in the security sector from Nordic private equity firms is a reflection of growing threats and increasing enterprise security budgets

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware family becoming more dangerous

  Researchers from Symantec share fresh insight into the ongoing development of the ransomware-as-a-service family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  NCSC publishes cyber guidance for retailers

  The NCSC has published tailored advice to support online retailers, hospitality providers and utility services in protecting themselves and their customers from cyber crime

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Thousands of customers affected in Revolut data breach

  Digital challenger bank has warned its customers to be vigilant after their data was exposed in a cyber attack

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  IHG attackers phished employee to deploy destructive wiper

  A couple from Vietnam who claim to be behind a destructive wiper cyber attack on hotel operator IHG told the BBC how they orchestrated their operation

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Reports Uber and Rockstar incidents work of same attacker

  Rockstar Games was hit over the weekend by an attacker who claimed to have accessed its Slack channel to steal data on an upcoming release, and may be the same person who compromised Uber

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  Uber suffers major cyber attack

  Details are trickling out of an apparent ‘near total’ compromise of ride-sharing service Uber by an alleged teenage hacktivist

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Nominations closing soon for annual cyber awards

  Nominations for the annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards closes 16 September

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  New player pioneers ‘active cyber insurance’ for UK market

  Arrival of US-based insurer Coalition in London will supposedly offer SMEs more options when it comes to cyber security insurance

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  US charges three Iranians over CNI cyber attacks

  Three Iranian nationals have been indicted over a spate of ransomware attacks against organisations in the US, UK, Israel and Iran

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Ex-CISA head Krebs: Disrupt ransomware support networks to win the war

  Speaking at an event hosted by data protection specialist Rubrik, former CISA director Chris Krebs calls for the security community to work collectively to kick out the supports from under ransomware gangs

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  DDoS attacks on UK financial sector surged during Ukraine war

  A quarter of cyber security incidents reported to the Financial Conduct Authority in the first six months of 2022 involved DDoS, with a likely link to events in Ukraine

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cisco confirms leaked data was stolen in Yanluowang ransomware hit

  Cisco has confirmed that data leaked last week by the Yanluowang ransomware gang was that stolen during a May 2022 cyber attack

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Multi-persona impersonation adds new dimension to phishing

  Iranian APT used multiple personas on a single email thread to convince targets of the legitimacy of its phishing lures

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Mandiant floats off into Google Cloud

  As planned, the acquisition of Mandiant will see the threat intel and incident response giant become a part of Google’s Cloud business

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  Chinese APT using PlugX malware on espionage targets

  China’s Bronze President APT is once again targeting government officials of interest to its paymasters, this time using forged diplomatic correspondence, according to the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  Dutch cyber security organisations to join forces

  Cyber security organisations in the Netherlands are going to merge into a single central expertise centre and information hub, which all organisations in the country will soon be able to tap into

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Albania cuts diplomatic ties with Iran after cyber attack

  In a global geopolitical first, the Albanian government has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its ambassador after it was targeted by an APT backed by Tehran

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  August ’22 a bumper month for high-impact vulnerabilities

  Bugs in products from Apple, Google, Microsoft and VMware dominated the threat landscape in August, says Recorded Future

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Prince’s Trust teams with threat management specialist in skills push

  Prince’s Trust hopes to address shortfall in cyber professionals and improve diversity in the industry

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Hotel group IHG confirms cyber attack after two-day outage

  IHG, the operator of hotel chains Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Kimpton, says it has been targeted by an unknown threat actor

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Cyber threats to Europe’s grid: Utilities rethink strategy

  The separation of operational and information technology at utilities across Europe is opening doors for cyber criminals