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• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  CyberUK 23: NCSC conference centres cyber collaboration

  The NCSC’s annual CyberUK conference gets underway in Belfast this week, with collaboration and cooperation high on the agenda

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Tech companies and NGOs urge rewrite of Online Safety Bill to protect encrypted comms

  The Online Safety Bill faces amendments in the House of Lords amid concerns that it could weaken the security of end-to-end encrypted communications for UK citizens

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security

  Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  UK presses on with post-Brexit data protection reform

  The revised version of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has had its second reading in Parliament as the government presses on with post-Brexit changes, but critics remain sceptical that the EU will be convinced to maintain the UK's ...

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Restaurants hit by IT problems after BlackCat attack on supplier NCR

  Ransomware attack on systems of payments giant causing service outages for restaurants around the world

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Charity data stolen in ransomware attack on supplier

  A number of charities in Ireland and the UK have had their data compromised following a ransomware attack on an IT supplier

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Thousands at risk from critical RCE bug in legacy MS service

  Thousands of organisations worldwide are at risk from three vulnerabilities – one critical – in a legacy Microsoft service that they may not be aware they are running

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  UK joins key allies to launch secure-by-design guidelines

  The UK has joined international partners in sharing new advice to help technology companies embed security into the product design and development process

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Three charged over banking fraud for hire website

  UK authorities have charged three men in connection with the operation of a website that sold social engineering tools to cyber fraudsters

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Italy to lift ChatGPT ban subject to new data protection controls

  Italian regulator will lift its ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT subject to a strict new data protection regime

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Netskope claims hybrid work ‘revolution’ with SASE client and endpoint SD-WAN

  Netskope looks to deliver consistent security and superior user experience for hybrid workers through reduced costs and complexity from extended borderless SD-WAN and SASE

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  UK police double down on ‘improved’ facial recognition

  The Met and South Wales Police have doubled down on their use of facial recognition technology after research found improved accuracy in their algorithms when using certain settings, but civil society groups maintain that the tech will still be used...

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  April Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used to deliver ransomware

  A zero-day in the Microsoft Common Log File System that has been abused by the operator of the Nokoyawa ransomware is among 97 vulnerabilities fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday update

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Gartner: Rebalance cyber investment towards human-centric elements

  Security decision-makers need to reprioritise their investment outlooks towards people, rather than technology, according to the latest market forecast from Gartner

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Okta integrates with Singapore’s national digital ID system

  The integration with Singpass will let Okta customers authenticate consumers using Singapore’s national digital ID system and is expected to expand the company’s reach in regulated industries

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Anne Keast-Butler named as new director of GCHQ

  The government has appointed current MI5 deputy director general Anne Keast-Butler to head signals and cyber agency GCHQ

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  KFC, Pizza Hut data stolen in January ransomware attack

  Yum!, the parent organisation behind KFC and Pizza Hut in the UK, has disclosed that employee data was accessed and exfiltrated in a January 2023 ransomware attack

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  UKtech50 2023: Help us find the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is back – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year’s list

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  IBM's Nataraj Nagaratnam on the cyber challenges facing cloud services

  Governments are introducing increasingly prescriptive data protection policies, but with organisations becoming ever more reliant on multiple cloud service platforms for essential business needs, how can they ensure they meet regulatory requirements?

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Prioritise automated hardening over traditional cyber controls, says report

  A report from strategic risk specialist Marsh McLennan advises security buyers to funnel their budgets towards automated cyber security hardening techniques, saying they have a much better chance of reducing risk in a meaningful way

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Clop ransomware booms in March as Fortra zero-day pays off for gang

  Backed by the threat actor tracked variously as Gold Tahoe and TA505, the Clop ransomware operation hit new ‘heights’ of activity last month, according to researchers

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Quick-acting Rorschach ransomware appears out of nowhere

  Emergent Rorschach ransomware strain is highly advanced and quite unusual in its capabilities, warn researchers, who say they have been unable to link it to any other known strains

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Cops bust Genesis cyber crime marketplace

  Multinational Operation Cookie Monster takes down Genesis Market, a crucial source of compromised data used by criminals for fraud and other cyber attacks

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Italy’s ChatGPT ban: Sober precaution or chilling overreaction?

  Italy’s data protection authority issued a temporary ban on ChatGPT citing data protection concerns and alleged breaches of the GDPR. Is this a reasonable precaution, or a chilling restriction on personal freedoms?

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Scottish police tech piloted despite major data protection issues

  Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  TikTok fined in UK over unlawful use of children’s data

  The ICO has fined TikTok £12.7m for breaches of data protection law, including unlawfully collecting data on children under 13

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  National Cyber Force carrying out daily hacking operations to disrupt hostile threats

  Government discloses details about the National Cyber Force’s disruption activities against terrorists, organised criminals and nation states – and names first NCF chief as James Babbage

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Threat researchers dissect anatomy of a Royal ransomware attack

  Trellix researchers share the inside track on a Royal ransomware attack that hit one of its customers in late 2022

• April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23

  Over 90% of organisations find threat hunting a challenge

  Understaffed security teams and high levels of background noise are making basic security operations tasks a chore for defenders, according to a report

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Australia’s media and telecoms sector saw most data breaches in 2022

  The media and telecoms industry accounted for the bulk of stolen credentials in Australia in 2022, underscoring the need to shore up the country’s cyber security posture

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Three-day Capita outage was result of cyber attack

  Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed a major outage which began on 31 March was the result of a cyber attack affecting its Office 365 apps

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  Mounting Russian disinformation campaign targeting Arab world

  Researchers have found evidence of a broad Russian disinformation campaign targeting Arabic-speakers in the Middle East and North Africa

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  Ukrainians bust cyber criminals who stole over £3m across Europe

  Ukrainian police have arrested members of a cyber crime gang who stole and embezzled millions of pounds from victims across Europe

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  OSC&R supply chain security framework goes live on Github

  The OSC&R framework for understanding and evaluating threats to supply chain security has made its debut on Github to allow anybody to contribute to the framework

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  NCSC issues revised security Board Toolkit for business leaders

  National Cyber Security Centre calls on CEOs and senior business leaders to take a more hands-on approach to cyber resilience with the launch of revised board-level tools

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  NHS Highland rapped over data breach affecting HIV patients

  NHS Highland inadvertently exposed the personal data of individuals likely to be accessing HIV services in a lapse of email hygiene

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  Reactive approach to cyber procurement risks damaging businesses

  Too many organisations are following a reactive approach to cyber security, which WithSecure believes is stifling security teams ability to demonstrate value and align with business outcomes

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  3CX unified comms users hit by supply chain attacks

  Ongoing supply chain attacks against customers of UC firm 3CX appear to be linked to North Korean threat actors

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  UK government publishes AI whitepaper

  Artificial intelligence whitepaper outlines UK government’s proposals to regulate the technology, which are based around creating an agile, “pro-innovation” framework

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  New North Korean APT launders crypto to fund spying programmes

  Mandiant has attributed an ongoing campaign of malicious activity to a newly designated APT that is engaged in the acquisition and laundering of cryptocurrency to fund the regime’s espionage activities

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  How organisations can weaponise data privacy

  Organisations should turn data privacy into a competitive advantage and look beyond regulatory compliance to build a privacy programme that aligns with business targets, says Gartner

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  Generative AI presents opportunities and challenges to UK schools

  Generative AI and LLMs hold great potential for use in the classroom, but the privacy and security implications of its use must be carefully considered, says the Department for Education

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Microsoft expands AI Copilot project into security realm

  New Microsoft service, Security Copilot, will supposedly expand the reach, speed and effectiveness of cyber teams

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Apple security updates fix 33 iPhone vulnerabilities

  A larger-than-usual update to Apple’s mobile operating system fixes more than 30 distinct vulnerabilities, including two serious issues that may potentially affect device kernels

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Inside Group-IB’s cyber security playbook

  A focus on threat intelligence, fraud protection and its work with Interpol has enabled Group-IB to compete against bigger rivals in the market

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Europol warns cops to prep for malicious AI abuse

  In a report looking at how large language models can be used by criminals, Europol’s Innovation Lab calls on law enforcement agencies to prepare themselves for wide-ranging impacts on their work

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  Ethical hackers urged to respond to Computer Misuse Act reform proposals

  The deadline for submissions to the government’s consultation on reform of the Computer Misuse Act is fast approaching, and ethical hackers and security experts need to make their voices heard, says Bugcrowd