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Data breach incident management and recovery

  • February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

    US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool

    US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state

  • February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

    Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024

    Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments

  • February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

    UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work

    The Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact

  • January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

    DeepSeek API, chat log exposure a ‘rookie’ cyber error

    Security researchers at Wiz find a trove of DeepSeek data including API secrets and chat logs publicly exposed via an open source database management tool, raising questions about the fast-growing service’s approach to security

  • January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

    Vallance rejects latest charge to reform UK hacking laws

    Science minister Patrick Vallance rejects proposed amendments to the Computer Misuse Act, arguing that they could create a loophole for cyber criminals to exploit

  • January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

    Cyber incident that closed British Museum was inside job

    An IT incident that disrupted visitor access to the British Museum last week was the work of a disgruntled contractor who had been let go