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IT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Police make 61 arrests in global crackdown on dark web

  Law enforcement agencies from the US, Canada and Europe, including the UK, have joined forces to target suppliers and buyers of illegal goods on dark web marketplaces and warn buyers of risks

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  IT complexity raises concerns of certificate-related outages

  Company executives are concerned that increased IT complexity will result in more security certificate-related outages, with nearly two-thirds of organisations affected in the past year

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Asus releases fix for supply chain cyber attack

  Asus has released a fix for a supply chain attack and downplayed the impact on customers while promising to contact all those affected as incident highlights code signing vulnerabilities

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Nominet urges SMEs to register .uk domains to thwart squatters

  The automatic right of .co.uk domain name holders to register the shorter .uk domains ends in June

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Firms urged to gear up for new malware and tactics as threats proliferate

  The volume of malware attacks reached a record level in 2018, with UK and India bucking global trend of increased ransomware attacks, a study shows

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Geopolitical issues affecting cyber security

  Geopolitical issues are affecting business decisions, according to the majority of cyber security professionals, a survey shows

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Lack of security skills exposing business to attack

  The cyber skills shortage is leaving businesses at increased risk of attack as organisations continue to struggle to fill security-related positions, a survey shows

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Full-fibre broadband startup toob gets £75m funding round

  Broadband startup toob has received a £75m funding injection to begin a full-fibre roll-out

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Small businesses hit hardest by cyber crime costs

  Small businesses felt the biggest impact of the UK’s cyber crime bill in 2018, research shows

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Digital Darwinism unkind to those who wait, says Palo Alto

  As business-driven digital transformation, including the move to cloud, continues apace, companies need to rethink their approach to how they deploy and consume security, or risk being left behind

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Spike in cyber attacks targeting Cisco Webex

  Cyber attacks targeting a leading web conference tool have increased dramatically and sextortion is becoming more popular with attackers, according to WatchGuard Technologies

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Pivot3 to target Azure, Google clouds and enhance AI/ML

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Pivot3 plans to extend backup for its appliance clusters to additional public clouds and optimise service levels across storage tiers and cache

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Police investigate Norsk Hydro ransomware attack

  Ransomware attack on one of the world’s largest aluminium producers is under police investigation

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  UK cyber experts to support global company boards

  A consortium of UK cyber security experts and academics is to support multinational company boards to tackle online threats and protect against cyber crime

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Bournemouth and Northampton next in line for CityFibre broadband upgrade

  A £75m investment will see thousands of residential properties hooked up to full-fibre broadband services