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• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Supplier consolidation tops infosec goals for 2019

  Supplier consolidation, collaboration between networking and security teams, and security awareness are the top priorities for information security professionals trying to prepare for the unknown, annual benchmark study shows

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Sextortion accounts for one in 10 spear-phishing emails

  Email sextortion scams have increased in frequency and scope in the past four months, as well as evolving to bypass spam filters and trick recipients into reading the messages, research shows

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Icann calls for community collaboration to protect the internet

  The domain name system watchdog Icann has reaffirmed its commitment to engage in collaborative efforts to ensure the security, stability and resiliency of the internet’s global identifier systems

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Chinese cyber attack group Bronze Union targeting weapons tech

  Weapons technology is among the latest targets of a highly adaptable cyber espionage group that uses a wide range of publicly available and custom attack tools, presenting a challenge to network defenders

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  Security is battling to keep pace with cloud adoption

  Cloud-based business initiatives are accelerating more rapidly than security teams can secure them, a survey reveals

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  Cyber criminals earn $3bn a year exploiting social platforms

  Businesses urged to respond to research findings that the ready availability of hacking tools, wildfire spread of malware and proliferation of cryptocurrency mining has seen a 300-fold increase in social media-enabled cyber crimes in two years

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  EU gathers momentum in cyber security legislation and cooperation

  The past two years have seen a step-change in the rate at which the European Union is putting legislation in place to support improved cyber security standards, collaboration and sharing of resources, says digital commissioner’s representative

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Cyber power needs wider discussion, says GCHQ director

  The topic of cyber power needs wider discussion, says GCHQ head in a speech about the opportunities of digital innovation such as 5G, as well as the accompanying complexity and risk, with particular mention of China and Huawei

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Android now Fido2 certified

  Mobile operating system’s certification accelerates global migration beyond passwords, says Fido Alliance, which seeks to eliminate the world’s dependence on password-based security

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal

  Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers and to allow advertisers to send political advertising and invites to dating sites to ‘single’ people, confidential documents show

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Businesses urged to prepare for extortion campaigns

  C-level executives, lawyers and doctors are the top extortion targets of cyber criminals, a report by researchers tracking thousands of sextortion attempts reveals

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Toyota Australia under cyber attack

  The company has confirmed the attempted attack that took out its email system, forcing employees to turn to other forms of communication to continue working

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Huawei faces battle to win Nordic trust

  Nordic countries are investigating the spying allegations made against Chinese networking supplier Huiawei

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  No More Ransom releases GandCrab decryption tool

  Another free decryption tool is available that allows anyone infected with the latest versions of the GandCrab ransomware to regain control of their files and avoid paying the fee

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: Cyber security and risk management among top priorities for 2019

  This year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities research shows that cyber security and risk management are among the top investment priorities

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Healthcare providers should press on with digital transformation

  Healthcare providers should continue digitisation efforts with security in mind amid looming cyber threats, says a top T-Systems executive

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Finding security in the cloud

  When choosing a cloud security provider, enterprises will need to consider the level of data privacy and data security risk involved

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  CISOs under increasing pressure, study shows

  Cyber security professionals are under growing pressure from workloads and budget deficits, a study has revealed

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Australian government warns of blockchain gaps

  Digital Transformation Agency dispels some myths around blockchain, calling for government agencies to be cautious about using the technology

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Dutch developer offers businesses nuclear security option for communications

  Startup that created the secure platform for communication between world leaders at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands seeks to revolutionise business mail

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  APAC healthcare providers losing $23m to cyber attacks

  Healthcare organisations in the Asia-Pacific region could lose an average of $23.3m to cyber attacks, including losses from productivity and customer churn, a study finds

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Lauri Love takes legal action against NCA for return of seized computers

  Lauri Love, a former engineering student who won a battle with the US Department of Justice against extradition to the US to face hacking charges, is suing the UK's intelligence agency, the NCA, for the return of his seized computers

• February 10, 2019 10 Feb'19

  Australia’s defence department keeps old PCs out of landfills

  Department has securely wiped data from used devices and kept 1,300 tonnes of e-waste out of landfills

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  Innocent people arrested following surveillance blunders, IPCO reveals

  Interception of communications commissioner Adrian Fulford warns of “grave” repercussions for people wrongly identified as suspects due to errors made when government bodies access email, phone and telephone data

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  New stolen credentials cache puts spotlight on authentication

  The discovery of billions more stolen usernames and passwords in Collections #2 to #5 have prompted fresh calls for the implementation of better authentication methods across industry

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Cyber insurance uptake growing, but not all firms convinced

  The adoption of cyber insurance is expected to grow, but one in three companies still are not sold on the benefits, a survey shows

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Unconfigured IoT is a security risk, warns researcher

  Internet of things researcher says unconfigured internet-connected devices are a largely unrecognised cyber security risk to businesses and consumers, and welcomes the increased likelihood of UK IoT legislation

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  How traffic scrubbing can guard against DDoS attacks

  Although most scrubbing services can help fend off distributed denial of service attacks, a more comprehensive mitigation strategy is required to remain unscathed

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Global cyber attack could cost up to $193bn, study shows

  A coordinated global cyber attack could have an economic impact of up to $193bn, an insurance industry-backed report claims

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  New tech putting sensitive data at risk, report confirms

  Deployments of new technologies are putting sensitive corporate data at risk because organisations are struggling to secure these new IT environments, a report confirms

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Personal records of HIV-positive individuals in Singapore leaked online

  The personal information of 14,200 people with the human immunodeficiency virus was leaked by an American who lived in Singapore

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Security alert for vulnerabilities in Siemens PLCs

  Industries that use Siemens Simatic controllers to automate manufacturing processes have been urged to update software without delay

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Government to pump £70m into ‘designing out’ cyber threats

  Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund cash to be used for designing and developing more secure hardware in a bid to eradicate cyber threats

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Vodafone suspends use of Huawei hardware

  Vodafone’s UK CEO has said the operator will ‘pause’ its use of Huawei hardware for the foreseeable future

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Poor practices expose 24 million financial records

  Failure to maintain appropriate security controls has again led to the exposure of millions of sensitive data records, this time from the banking world

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  IoT application vulnerabilities leave devices open to attack

  Barracuda Networks calls for internet of things devices to be subject to regular security review after researchers detail the application vulnerabilities of an internet-connected security camera

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Business failing to see strategic value of cyber security

  UK businesses are failing to get value out of cyber security because they fail to see its strategic importance and often have a negative attitude towards security professionals, a study has revealed

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  AWS now accredited to run protected workloads in Australia

  Accreditation from the Australian Cyber Security Centre will enable organisations to store and process sensitive data in the Amazon Web Services Sydney region

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Facebook’s objections to court concerns over privacy more about ‘optics’ than facts

  Facebook’s challenge to a High Court ruling that raises serious concerns about data transfers between Europe and the US is more about appearance than facts, lawyers for the Irish Data Protection Commission told Dublin's Supreme Court

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  MPs challenge Huawei over spying allegations

  The chair of the cross-bench Science and Technology Committee has written to Huawei seeking answers over its activities in the UK

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Time to deploy strong authentication, says Fido

  The time has come for organisations to deploy cryptographically backed strong authentication, according to the Fido Alliance, which seeks to eliminate the world’s dependence on password-based security

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  US issues emergency directive to halt DNS hijacking

  US government agencies have been given 10 days to complete a four-step action plan to stop DNS hijacking attacks

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  IBM mobile cyber range starts European tour in London

  IBM’s mobile cyber range is kicking of a tour in London to raise awareness around the need for tried and tested cyber attack responses among organisations in Europe

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Young Dutch cyber criminals get re-education rather than jail time

  Young hackers in the Netherlands are being rehabilitated through punishments that educate rather than incarcerate

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Name and shame firms with poor cyber security, government told

  The government should name and shame companies whose cyber security measures fail to protect consumers’ data and firms should implement Active Cyber Defence, an academic report urges

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Public procurement key to cyber security

  Using public procurement as a means of boosting cyber security is the top recommendation for 2019, according to a report based on expert views

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Home Office vetoes privacy campaigner from senior post in surveillance watchdog

  The Home Office refuses academic and privacy campaigner, Eric King, security clearance for a senior role at the intelligence services watchdog, despite high-level backing from officials

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Breach of nearly 2.7 billion records underlines password flaws

  Potentially the biggest personal data breach to date from thousands of sources, some possibly breached as far back as 2008, illustrates the deeply flawed nature of password-based authentication, say industry commentators

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  CenturyLink opens Singapore SOC amid security services boom

  US telco’s second Asia-Pacific security operations centre in Singapore is one of eight globally as it bids to carve a slice of the security services market