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• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  UK critical services need to up cyber defences to avoid fines

  UK critical infrastructure providers could be liable for fines of millions of pounds if they do not improve their cyber defences and resilience of their IT infrastructure, a study reveals

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Ransomware attack hit Ukraine energy ministry website

  Cyber attack on Ukraine’s energy ministry shows that websites remain a weak point for many organisations online, say security experts

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Australian supermarket chain hit by IT outage

  Thirty-minute glitch knocked out checkout systems at half of Woolworths’ stores in Australia

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  DDoS attacks cost up to £35,000

  Despite the direct financial impact of DDoS attacks, this is not considered to be the most damaging effect on companies targeted this way, a survey shows

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  APAC is becoming a hotspot for DDoS attacks

  The region’s largest and most-connected economies are most vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to CenturyLink

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Targeted cyber attacks doubled in past year, study shows

  The number of targeted attacks has doubled in the past year compared with the previous 12 months, despite improvements in detecting and blocking them, a cyber resilience study shows

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Government to set up £13.5m cyber security centre

  Located at the 2012 Olympic Park, the London Cyber Innovation Centre could create up to 2,000 jobs in cyber security

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  Ransomware puts pressure on incident response

  Cyber attackers switched focus to ransomware attacks in 2017 putting pressure on incident response, while human error was responsible for two-thirds of compromised records, a study shows

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  InfiniSync backup ‘bunker’ gives zero RPO for critical apps

  Infinidat launches InfiniSync “black box” as off-site storage on-site, plus new Infinibox PB-scale array, cloud storage service Neutrix Cloud and InfiniGuard backup appliance

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  UK firms failing to make financial plans for cyber attacks

  Most UK firms are failing to plan for the financial impact of cyber attacks, a survey by Lloyds Bank has revealed

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Dutch SMEs’ cyber security is insufficient

  Nowhere in the Netherlands is digitisation as big as it is in small and medium-sized enterprises, but the sector still has a lot to do in terms of cyber security

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  C-suite a cyber attack risk, say security chiefs

  Those tasked with running organisations are the most likely group to expose them to a major cyber attack, a poll of UK information security executives shows

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Cyber threat to industrial control systems highest yet

  The cyber threat to industrial control systems has never been greater, according to a report analysing malicious activity aimed at such systems

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Memcached servers irresistible to DDoS attackers, expert warns

  In the light of the biggest distributed denial of service attack to date against GitHub, organisations should ditch memcached servers or risk a blizzard of blistering attacks, says security researcher

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Businesses urged to patch Oracle WebLogic flaw

  Security researchers are again urging businesses to patch an Oracle WebLogic flaw that continues to be exploited by cyber criminals to mine cryptocurrencies

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Economic impact of cyber crime is significant and rising

  Cyber attacks are becoming easier to carry out while defences remain inadequate, study shows

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  Tech industry signs cyber security charter

  Nine technology organisations have signed a cyber security charter aimed at raising the level of cyber security internationally

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  Few organisations managing cyber risk, survey shows

  Cyber risk management practices are not keeping up with rising cyber security concerns among senior executives around the world, a study shows

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Industrial cyber security improving, but needs work

  Cyber attacks on industrial and critical infrastructure systems are increasing in number and sophistication, but more attention is being paid to security, says Honeywell at it opens new Dubai facility

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  Norway’s government backs cyber defence mobilisation

  Norway has accelerated plans to scale up its national security infrastructure against threats emanating from the cyber domain

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  Teenager suspected of crippling Dutch banks with DDoS attacks

  A large distributed denial of service attack on banks and other organisations in the Netherlands, first thought to emanate from Russia, is now thought to have been launched by a local teenager

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Third party cyber breach risk set to rise

  Third party cyber security risk should always have been a priority, but this has never been more important than it is now in light of new technology risks and data protection regulations

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Lauri Love plans to use ‘internet as a force for good’

  Engineering student Lauri Love says he plans to help businesses fight cyber crime, after the court of appeal ruled that he can be tried in the UK for allegedly hacking US computer systems, rather than face extradition to the US

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  Industrial cyber security continues to be poor, warns report

  The number of internet-accessible industrial control systems is increasing every year, researchers warn

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Almost a quarter of London businesses unaware of GDPR

  Nearly one in four London businesses unaware of new data protection regulation, a survey has revealed, with just months before the compliance deadline

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Sweden steps up cyber defence measures

  Sweden is tightening up its cyber security defences as part of a wider national security strategy

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  IoT botnet DDoS attacks predicted after exploit code published

  Security researchers are urging businesses to ensure they are prepared for large-scale DDoS attacks following the online publication of code to exploit a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2017

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cyber crime stories of 2017

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  UK government blames North Korea for WannaCry cyber attack

  The UK and US governments say a North Korean group was responsible for the ransomware attacks that hit the NHS and other organisations globally this year

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Barclays Bank stops offering Kaspersky software to new users

  Bank is no longer offering customers Kaspersky anti-virus software after UK security agency issues warning

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Cyber security professionals urged to embrace AI and automation

  IBM security intelligence head says professionals should embrace artificial intelligence and automation to ensure they do not become obsolete

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Infoblox partners with McAfee to combine web and DNS security

  Infoblox is to collaborate with McAfee to combine web and DNS security to deliver unified protection

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  RSA’s Middle East cyber security conference gains its own identity

  RSA Abu Dhabi conference focuses on region’s cyber security needs as digital technology deployments expand

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  WannaCry an example of pseudo-ransomware, says McAfee

  The global WannaCry and NotPetya attacks were both examples of pseudo-ransomware, according to McAfee researchers

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap

  Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates

• August 28, 2017 28 Aug'17

  VMware making bigger push into cloud, cyber security

  The virtualisation bigwig is making it easier for VMware customers to adopt public cloud services, starting with a partnership with Amazon Web Services

• August 21, 2017 21 Aug'17

  NotPetya highlights cyber risk in shipping industry

  Malware attack has shown that the shipping industry is vulnerable to cyber attacks, with Danish shipping giant Maersk reporting potential cost of up to $300m

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  NotPetya attack cost up to $300m, says Maersk

  Danish shipping line Maersk estimates that the NotPetya cyber attack in June cost the company up to $300m

• June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17

  Danish shipping giant Maersk recovering from major Petya cyber attack

  Company confirms attack took down its IT system across multiple sites and business units, but has now been contained

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  Key lessons from ‘Petya’ ransomware attack

  While the cyber security community is still working to understand the latest ransomware attack that has reportedly hit 60 countries, there are key lessons to be learned

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  UK firms stockpiling bitcoins for ransomware attacks

  Large UK firms are prepared to pay out more than £136,000 on average to cyber criminals who launch ransomware attacks, a survey has revealed

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Banks suffer average of 85 attempted serious cyber attacks a year, and one-third are successful

  Banks face daily cyber attacks, many of which succeed in stealing data, research finds

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  InterContinental Hotel Group reveals extent of malware attack

  Hotel group InterContinental (IHG) reveals that malware attempting to glean payment card details sat undetected on its network in the US for three months

• April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17

  Security as a service on the rise in the UAE

  Organisations in the United Arab Emirates are increasingly turning to security services

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Interview: F-Secure’s Mikko Hyppönen on the Nordics, Russia and the internet of insecure things

  Computer Weekly sat down with Finnish cyber security expert Mikko Hyppönen to talk about security in the Nordics, Russia and the trouble with connected devices

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  Threats grow in Saudi Arabia’s cyber sector

  Saudi Arabia's wealth makes it an attractive target for cyber criminals, but what have been the recent trends in cyber crime?