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  • May 09, 2024 09 May'24

    Cyber attack victims need to speak up, says ICO

    The Information Commissioner’s Office is urging organisations to be transparent and learn from each other’s mistakes as it reveals most of the cyber attacks it responds to stem from the same core errors

  • May 02, 2024 02 May'24

    NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI

    The NCSC and CISA have warned about the evolving threat from Russia-backed hacktivist threat actors targeting critical national infrastructure, after a number of American utilities were attacked

  • May 01, 2024 01 May'24

    EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents

    The 17th annual Verizon report on data breaches makes for sobering reading for security pros, urging them to do more to address the human factors involved in cyber incidents, and highlighting ongoing issues with zero-day patching

  • April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

    IT leaders hiring CISOs aplenty, but don’t fully understand the role

    Most businesses now have a CISO, but perceptions of what CISOs are supposed to do, and confusion over the value they offer, may be holding back harmonious relations, according to a report

  • April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

    Mandiant formally pins Sandworm cyber attacks on APT44 group

    Mandiant has formally attributed a long-running campaign of cyber attacks by a Russian state actor known as Sandworm to a newly designated advanced persistent threat group to be called APT44

  • April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

    CISOs not yet convinced to invest in AI

    CISOs say their eyes are fixed firmly on threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks, and while AI is becoming a threat that needs to be dealt with, it’s not yet an immediate spending priority

  • April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

    UK plc failing on multiple cyber measures

    Government report shows 50% of businesses and 32% of charities reported a cyber attack or breach in the past 12 months and organisations across the UK are failing on multiple cyber measures

  • April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

    Is a cyber arms control treaty out of reach?

    The world needs cyber arms control more than ever, but the challenges facing a multilateral agreement will be hard to surmount, according to researchers at Germany’s Digital Society Institute

  • April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

    RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds

    Threat actors continue to see great success using simple, tried and tested methods, and many defenders are failing to do the basics

  • March 29, 2024 29 Mar'24

    Organisations getting better at spotting identity fraud

    As the barriers to committing identity fraud continue to drop, organisations should consider more sophisticated technical measures to successfully up their game, according to a report