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Data breach incident management and recovery

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  NCSC expands schools programme to north-east England and Northern Ireland

  Following an initial roll-out in Gloucestershire and Wales, the NCSC’s CyberFirst Schools programme is being extended to north-east England and Northern Ireland

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Ryuk attack downs private health provider in major incident

  Private healthcare provider UHS has been been hit by a major big game hunting cyber attack that infected its systems with the Ryuk ransomware

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Security now main driving force behind digital transformation

  Organisations are urgently remodelling their core technology stack in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and this is pushing security to the top of the agenda

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Airbnb hosts’ account data exposed in internal leak

  Data exposure within Airbnb’s system was the result of a technical issue but was swiftly fixed, says the firm

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Forensic expert questions US claims that Julian Assange conspired to crack military password

  Forensic computer expert Patrick Eller told the Old Bailey that US allegations that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attempted to decrypt a password to help former soldier Chelsea Manning leak sensitive government documents anonymously do not fit ...

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Government blasted over ‘reckless’ contact-tracing security

  The Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch accuse the government of endangering public health with a reckless attitude to contact-tracing data security

• September 24, 2020 24 Sep'20

  Australians want more control over privacy

  Nearly nine in 10 Australians want more control and choice over the collection and use of their personal information amid declining trust in how organisations handle personal data, survey finds

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has Asperger syndrome and depression, court hears

  Julian Assange is on the autistic spectrum and has a history of depression that would put him at risk of suicide if he is extradited to a US prison, psychiatrists tell the court

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Video gamers barraged with cyber attacks

  From credential stuffing to SQL injection and DDoS, video game producers and players are seeing massive volumes of cyber attacks

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Activision shoots down data breach claims

  Gaming company denies there has been any data breach after up to 500,000 accounts appeared to have been compromised, but evidence mounts that credential stuffing attacks are to blame

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Outgoing NCSC CEO: Ransomware threat kept us up at night

  Former NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin sheds some light on some of the biggest cyber threats currently facing the UK

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Congressman offered Julian Assange a ‘win-win’ deal that would help President Trump

  Details have emerged of US congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s offer of a pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a ‘win-win deal that would benefit US President Donald Trump

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  US government deplatforms TikTok and WeChat

  The Commerce Department of the US government has banned new downloads of TikTok and WeChat in the US, and announced new prohibitions on doing business with them

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  German authorities probe ransomware hospital death

  Hackers failed to extort a ransom from University Hospital Düsseldorf, but indirectly caused the death of a patient

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Maze ransomware borrows Ragnar Locker tactics to sneak past defences

  New research from the Sophos threat response team has found the Maze ransomware gang has adopted techniques pioneered by the cyber criminals behind Ragnar Locker

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Saudi Arabia sees cyber security boom as coronavirus bites

  Saudi Arabian CIOs have been forced to increase their security posture as the Covid-19 pandemic transforms working methods

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Seven charged in connection with Chinese state-backed cyber attacks

  Attacks by APT41, or Wicked Panda, targeted hundreds of organisations, including the UK government

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  NCSC steps up ransomware support for schools and universities

  New alert and updated guidance comes after several academic institutions were targeted in ransomware attacks

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents to prevent harm to US government

  Investigative journalist John Goetz said today that WikiLeaks held back publication of thousands of documents that could harm individuals

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Retailers urged to get to grips with Magento as attacks spike

  A huge spike in online retailers being hacked with Magecart credit card skimmers is being blamed on unsupported versions of Adobe Magento

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Data of every Welsh Covid-19 patient leaked online

  Data on all 18,105 people in Wales who have received positive tests for the coronavirus was uploaded to a public-facing web server in error

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Travel industry websites are laughably insecure, claims Which?

  The travel industry is failing to take the data security of its customers seriously, according to a Which? investigation

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Cyber security is next frontier for open source

  Open security will facilitate the interoperability and capabilities of cyber security tools while alleviating vendor lock-in for enterprises, says IBM

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Datacentre firm Equinix investigating ransomware attack

  A number of internal systems at cloud and datacentre firm Equinix have been affected by a ransomware attack

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  Julian Assange warned against interrupting witnesses in extradition hearing

  On the second day of his extradition hearing at the Old Bailey, judge informs the WikiLeaks founder he could be removed and potentially banned from court for interrupting witnesses

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Court rejects request to exclude ‘11th hour’ US evidence against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  Lawyers for Julian Assange say the US has introduced an 11th hour indictment against the WikiLeaks founder that provides additional grounds for his extradition

• September 06, 2020 06 Sep'20

  Why predictive threat intelligence is key

  Threat intelligence startup Cyfirma is using virtual agents to gather intelligence on potential cyber attacks that are being coordinated in underground forums before they occur

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Phishing scam targets Lloyds Bank customers

  Bank customers warned of emails and SMS messages that direct them to a fraudulent site and then request account log-in details

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  UK businesses hardest hit financially by fallout from cyber attacks, research shows

  Latest edition of Hiscox’s annual cyber readiness report suggests UK businesses are among those worst affected by the financial fallout from cyber attacks

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Northumbria University suffers major disruption after cyber attack

  Some exams cancelled as university appoints external specialists to investigate incident

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Machine learning wards off threats at TV studio Bunim Murray

  TV studio behind reality hits including The Real World and Keeping Up With The Kardashians turned to Darktrace’s Antigena email protection service to keep its people safe from Covid-19 threats

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Benefit fraud: Underground trade in stolen identities revealed

  A roaring underground trade in stolen identities is undermining the Universal Credit system and could potentially defraud it out of millions of pounds

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Avaddon ransomware operators having a go at double extortion

  The operators of the Avaddon ransomware seem to be tooling up to leak the data of their victims in addition to holding it to ransom, Cofense researchers confirm

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  North Korea’s Lazarus targets cryptocurrency vertical

  APT group behind the infamous WannaCry incident is targeting cryptocurrency operators, according to new research

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Australian regulator sues RI Advice for cyber security lapses

  The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is suing RI Advice for cyber security breaches at the financial firm’s authorised representatives

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Social media data leak highlights murky world of data scraping

  A data brokerage left its database of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles exposed to anybody who cared to access it

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Marriott slapped with class action lawsuit over 2018 breach

  Group action brings together millions of victims who stayed at the Starwood hotel chain over a four-year period

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Carnival cruise lines hit by ransomware, customer data stolen

  Cruise ship operator is likely to be the victim of a major data breach after customer information is apparently stolen in a ransomware attack

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  US decision to file new charges against Julian Assange ‘astonishing and potentially abusive’

  Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a potential abuse of process

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Russia’s Fancy Bear targets Linux environments with Drovorub malware

  The Russian intelligence-linked Fancy Bear group is deploying a new malware called Drovorub against Linux environments as part of a cyber espionage operation, according to US warnings

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  APAC consumers do not feel responsible for data security

  Just one in four consumers believe they should protect their own data, underscoring the tightrope between security and convenience that organisations have been walking on

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  How Dharma ransomware became an effective services business

  New research looks under the bonnet of a Dharma ransomware attack, with the ransomware's ease of use being particularly dangerous for small to medium-sized enterprises

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Security training body Sans Institute hit by data breach

  Around 28,000 items of personally identifiable data were lost in a phishing attack on Sans, proving that even the professionals can be caught out

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  NHS hit by thousands of malicious emails at height of pandemic

  The NHS received nearly 30,000 malicious emails at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in March and April

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: Phishing lures pivot to exploit vaccine hopes

  Phishing emails are increasingly luring in victims with subject lines relating to the development of a vaccine for Covid-19

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Retailer Monsoon allegedly exposing data via Pulse Connect server

  A researcher has found a critically insecure Pulse Connect Secure VPN version belonging to UK retailer Monsoon Accessorize, but claims the firm is ignoring his disclosures

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Capital One hit with $80m fine by US regulators over 2019 data breach

  US regulator imposes fine over data breach that affected 106 million Capital One customers in the US and Canada

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Canon said to be latest Maze ransomware victim

  Canon may have had up to 10TB of its data exfiltrated by the Maze ransomware gang

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Second wave of Covid-19 cyber attacks locked in

  More cyber attacks exploiting the pandemic seem likely, says Interpol

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Five signs you’re about to get hit with ransomware

  A series of Sophos reports on the ransomware threat landscape shows how security professionals can sniff out a potential ransomware attack before it happens