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• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Blasé directors put business data at risk

  The higher up within a business you go, the more likely you are to find people intentionally leaking confidential data, says Egress

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Questions raised over Office 365 shared content policy

  Buried 300 words into Microsoft’s standard service level agreement is a clause that affects intellectual property and privacy

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  US ‘breached due process’ in spying operation against Julian Assange’s lawyers

  Surveillance footage of Julian Assange’s meetings with lawyers and doctors in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London was an “abuse of process”

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Girlguiding hosts interactive cyber security workshop

  100 Guides from South West England took part in an NCSC event to learn more about security fundamentals

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Untrusted security teams being left out of business decisions

  Only a third of organisations are involving their cyber security function at the planning stage of business initiatives

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Most CISOs ready to move jobs if something better comes along

  The shortage of skilled security pros is creating an active recruitment market, with over 80% of CISOs saying they would consider a new role if approached

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering

  Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Australians more savvy about cyber security

  More Australians look out for signs of security features such as SSL encryption even as they remain sceptical of the data protection capabilities of small businesses

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Mastercard opens European security resilience unit

  Mastercard’s European Cyber Resilience Centre will bring together its partners and other industry bodies to support enterprise resilience

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Ex-soldiers to become ethical hackers

  A new programme will give armed forces veterans in Scotland a grounding in cyber security skills, including penetration testing and ethical hacking

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  PM Johnson shuffles technology and digital ministers again

  Boris Johnson has changed all the key Cabinet appointments responsible for tech and digital policy for the second time since becoming prime minister last year

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Cyber criminals spread coronavirus conspiracy theories

  The latest email campaigns identified by Proofpoint are spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus outbreak

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Emotet evolving to exploit coronavirus fear

  With coronavirus cases now reported across the world, Emotet campaigns are exploiting legitimate fears to compromise their targets

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Internet Explorer zero day among 99 Patch Tuesday problems

  After an eventful January Patch Tuesday that marked the end of support for Windows 7, the February 2020 update is another whopper, fixing close to 100 vulnerabilities

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  MI5 failed to disclose failings in handling intercepted data, court hears

  MI5 failed to disclose serious failures in the way it handled intelligence data to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the surveillance regulator and ministers.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Mac-based security threats outpacing Windows

  Security threats targeting Apple endpoints are growing more quickly than those targeting Windows machines, according to Malwarebytes

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Chinese military personnel accused of Equifax hack

  A US federal grand jury has indicted four Chinese army personnel over the 2017 Equifax breach

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Tencent Cloud gains multi-tier cloud security certification

  China's Tencent Cloud joins major cloud suppliers in securing tier three of Singapore’s Multi-Tier Cloud Security standard in a bid to grow its presence in Asia

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  Police use of facial recognition ‘unjustifiable’, says Scottish Justice Committee

  Members of the Scottish Parliament have said police use of live facial recognition technology is “not fit for purpose”

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  What should be in Australia’s next cyber security strategy

  The Australian government is reviewing the nation’s cyber security strategy, but is it looking at the right issues?

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  Norway braces for possible China backlash over 5G loss

  Norway fears trading relationship with China will suffer as a result of Huawei losing 5G contract to Ericsson

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  AI in public service must be accountable

  Committee on Standards in Public Life recommends that government departments make ethics a top priority when tendering artificial intelligence systems

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  RobbinHood ransomware tricks Windows into deleting defences

  By subverting kernel memory settings in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, the RobbinHood ransomware can now delete cyber security defences from target systems

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is ‘most dangerous’ movie

  Ahead of the 2020 Oscars, Kaspersky researchers say they found more than 300 files masquerading as the Joker movie

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Maastricht University pays €200,000 to Russian hackers

  A Dutch university has taken the difficult decision to pay hundreds of thousands of Euros to Russian hackers that compromised its systems through a ransomware attack

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Stressed, overworked CISOs losing £23k a year in unpaid overtime

  Nominet’s latest CISO Stress Report has revealed the extent to which organisations are taking advantage of their security staff, and the deleterious effects of overwork and stress on mental health

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Darktrace signs to McLaren for 2020 F1 season

  McLaren Racing has enlisted Darktrace to become its official artificial intelligence cyber security partner

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Scammers using fake PayPal emails stole over £1m in the UK in last quarter

  Fraudsters tricked Brits into sending over £1m worth of goods to them that they hadn't paid for

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Web app ubiquity gives cyber criminals new opportunities

  The popularity and ubiquity of web-based apps such as Office 365 and Salesforce is a temptation too good to miss for cyber criminals

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Check Point pledges end to security updates

  Check Point’s Gil Shwed expands on a vision for the next 10 years of cyber security, which he calls Infinity Next

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  IoT network flaw left Philips Hue bulbs open to attack

  Vulnerabilities in the ZigBee internet of things networking protocol have left market-leading smart devices, including Philips Hue lightbulbs, open to exploitation

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Acronis CEO bullish as specialist goes beyond backup

  Acronis is set to launch Cyber Protect as it rides a wave of confidence based on increasing revenues and investor funding. Will the backup-plus-cyber protection calculation pay off?

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Social media targeting algorithms need regulation, says CDEI

  The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is recommending regulation of social media algorithms as part of a drive to make user targeting safe and ethical

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  MI5 faces court ruling over unlawful surveillance warrants

  Privacy groups Liberty and Privacy International ask the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to order MI5 to disclose full details of ‘unlawful’ conduct, after classified documents reveal the spy agency failed to comply with surveillance laws

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  Digital strategy for 2020-2030 sets out police technology plans

  National policing strategy sets a number of technological ambitions for the next decade, placing a particular emphasis on collaborative working and building common standards or frameworks

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  Brexit messes up IT project plans

  With no firm plans for a managed departure from the Europe Union, the UK’s IT spending is set to be curbed, and CIOs will need to start cutting costs as IT budgets decline

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  NHS adds supplier security audits to procurement platform

  A new feature in the NHS’s Edge4Health procurement platform will help NHS suppliers improve their cyber security posture and NHS organisations make better buying decisions

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Davos: The clock is ticking on climate change but cyber crime and emerging technologies add to risks

  Climate change, natural disasters, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity are the greatest risks we face. With cyber conflicts, state-sponsored hacking and internet fragmentation, doing nothing is not an option, says the World Economic Forum

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  UK police arrest three over Maltese cyber bank robbery

  The NCA has made three arrests in Belfast and London following an investigation into money laundering linked to a cyber heist on a bank in Malta

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  NCSC launches study on cyber security diversity

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre wants to improve the diversity of the cyber security sector

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  First coronavirus cyber threats seen in the wild

  Kaspersky has reported the first incidences of cyber security threats playing on fears of the emerging coronavirus

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Avast cans data harvesting subsidiary after outcry

  Avast will close its Jumpshot big data unit following repeated allegations of inappropriate handling of customer data

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  UK cyber security sector worth more than £8bn

  The UK’s cyber security industry employs 43,000 full-time workers, and contributed nearly £4bn to the UK economy in 2019, according to DCMS

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  NHS suffers fewer ransomware attacks, but threat persists

  Ransomware attacks against the NHS have tapered off dramatically, according to statistics obtained under FoI legislation, but this does not mean the threat has diminished

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Apple posts record-breaking quarter, but prepares for Coronavirus impact

  The Coronavirus outbreak is having a direct impact on Apple’s supply chain and its Chinese retail stores and channel partners

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Fintechs fear deepfake fraud

  New research reveals the majority of CISOs working in the financial services sector are increasingly concerned about the potential use of deepfakes

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Met Police could deploy facial recognition against protesters

  Live facial recognition will be rolled out operationally by the Met Police, but police monitoring group Netpol believes it will hamper people’s ability to exercise their rights to protest

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Organisations losing control of cloud data

  Data is more widely dispersed in enterprise clouds than most organisations think, and as a result they are at risk of losing control of it, according to a report

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Data privacy benefits outweigh spend, says Cisco

  Cisco’s 2020 data privacy study shows organisations can generate substantial returns on their data privacy and protection spending

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Interpol uncovers cyber crime operation in Indonesia

  An Interpol-coordinated cyber operation leads to the arrest of three people in Indonesia who allegedly used a JavaScript-sniffer malware to steal payment card details of online shoppers