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IT security

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Cyber criminals use fake domains to scam businesses

  UK police are warning businesses that cyber criminals are using fake domains to scam businesses out of hundreds of thousands of pounds

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  CNI sector lacks cyber security skills, government warned

  The UK’s critical national infrastructure sector is being negatively impacted by the lack of cyber security skills, a report warns

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Collaborative alliance to advance UK’s cyber security profession

  Leading UK organisations in cyber security have united to develop a national professional body in the field

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  How Splunk is ‘splunking’ data for APAC enterprises

  Splunk’s regional vice-president talks up the company’s business strategy and how its customers are using big data analytics in security and IT operations

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Uber appoints first privacy and data protection chiefs

  Uber is getting its privacy and data protection house in order in the wake of damaging data breaches and in anticipation of the company’s planned stock market launch in 2019

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  NHS on the hunt for chief data officer

  The NHS CDO will report directly to NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson, get paid up to £176,750 and be responsible for a budget of around £57m

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Retail cyber security spending ineffective as breaches rise

  Cyber attacks on the retail sector are increasing, and although most retailers plan to increase cyber security spending, planned investments are unlikely to be effective, a report reveals

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Deloitte launches EMEA-wide initiative to close cyber security gender gap

  Professional services organisation Deloitte expands its UK efforts to encourage more women into cyber security to cover the EMEA area

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Cyber security top priority for aircraft makers, says Airbus

  There is a high level of collaboration in the aircraft industry on cyber security, but not all other industries are at the same level, according to an industry veteran at multinational aerospace and defence firm Airbus

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Singapore to bolster threat intelligence sharing in financial sector

  Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency has partnered the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Centre to glean cyber threat intelligence for the country’s financial industry

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Spectre variant gives buffer overflow a new twist

  New variants of the Spectre microprocessor bugs use buffer overflow-style attacks to run malicious code

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  Cryptominers plateau while backdoors shoot up

  Illicit cryptocurrency mining appears to be slowing down, but backdoors increased rapidly in the second quarter of the year, a report warns

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  A third of organisations do not have a security expert, survey shows

  Around a third of organisations are vulnerable to cyber attacks due to a lack of dedicated in-house cyber security experts, finds Gartner survey

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  Mobile devices lost in London underline security risk

  The security risk of lost mobile devices is underlined by the fact that almost 26,000 mobile phones and computing devices were lost in London in the past year alone

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  ITPS expands datacentre to support Azure Stack and HPC

  Datacentre company ITPS expands its County Durham facility to meet client needs for high performance computing and security