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Privacy and data protection

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks video ‘electrified’ public to civilian war deaths, court hears

  New Zealand investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager said that WikiLeaks’ publication of a video showing a US helicopter firing on civilians, along with the publication of secret war logs, ‘electrified’ the world to civilian deaths

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Ex-NCSC boss Ciaran Martin joins cyber venture capital outfit

  Outgoing NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin is to take up a new role guiding new investments in cyber security

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Outgoing NCSC CEO: Ransomware threat kept us up at night

  Former NCSC CEO Ciaran Martin sheds some light on some of the biggest cyber threats currently facing the UK

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Congressman offered Julian Assange a ‘win-win’ deal that would help President Trump

  Details have emerged of US congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s offer of a pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a ‘win-win deal that would benefit US President Donald Trump

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  US government deplatforms TikTok and WeChat

  The Commerce Department of the US government has banned new downloads of TikTok and WeChat in the US, and announced new prohibitions on doing business with them

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  German authorities probe ransomware hospital death

  Hackers failed to extort a ransom from University Hospital Düsseldorf, but indirectly caused the death of a patient

• September 18, 2020 18 Sep'20

  Rampant Kitten spent six years hacking Iranian dissidents

  Details emerge of an ongoing campaign by Tehran-backed threat actors targeting dissidents and activists

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Maze ransomware borrows Ragnar Locker tactics to sneak past defences

  New research from the Sophos threat response team has found the Maze ransomware gang has adopted techniques pioneered by the cyber criminals behind Ragnar Locker

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Saudi Arabia sees cyber security boom as coronavirus bites

  Saudi Arabian CIOs have been forced to increase their security posture as the Covid-19 pandemic transforms working methods

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Seven charged in connection with Chinese state-backed cyber attacks

  Attacks by APT41, or Wicked Panda, targeted hundreds of organisations, including the UK government

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Assange revelations among most important in US history, says Daniel Ellsberg

  Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked highly classified documents that changed the course of the Vietnam War in the 1970s, says WikiLeaks exposed a serious pattern of US war crimes

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  NCSC steps up ransomware support for schools and universities

  New alert and updated guidance comes after several academic institutions were targeted in ransomware attacks

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents to prevent harm to US government

  Investigative journalist John Goetz said today that WikiLeaks held back publication of thousands of documents that could harm individuals

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Retailers urged to get to grips with Magento as attacks spike

  A huge spike in online retailers being hacked with Magecart credit card skimmers is being blamed on unsupported versions of Adobe Magento

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Lorca security scaleups to get Splunk data expertise

  Lorca inducts Splunk onto its co-marketing programme, giving security scaleups access to new data expertise

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Singapore partners Apple on LumiHealth

  Singapore’s Health Promotion Board has developed a programme with Apple to encourage healthy living following a similar partnership with Fitbit last year

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Gartner Security Summit: Covid-19 brings agile security to the fore

  The evolving threat landscape is the top driver impacting cyber security during the next three to five years, and Covid-19 has accelerated the trend towards more agile security deployments

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed

  Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  TikTok-Oracle partnership moves forward for consideration

  Joint venture proposal could create thousands of jobs and secure TikTok’s future outside China

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Data of every Welsh Covid-19 patient leaked online

  Data on all 18,105 people in Wales who have received positive tests for the coronavirus was uploaded to a public-facing web server in error

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  MEPs denied access as observers to Julian Assange extradition hearing

  MEPs and NGOs say they have been denied access to observe extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder in Central Criminal Court

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Julian Assange faces solitary confinement if extradited, court hears

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be held under special administrative measures if extradited to the US, said Eric Lewis, a US legal expert, effectively placing him in solitary confinement

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Microsoft drops out of TikTok talks, paves way for Oracle partnership

  Microsoft confirms it is dropping out of the running to acquire the US operations of TikTok, leaving the way clear for an imminent partnership deal with Oracle

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Travel industry websites are laughably insecure, claims Which?

  The travel industry is failing to take the data security of its customers seriously, according to a Which? investigation

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Zoom adds two-factor authentication for all users

  Latest enhancements to Zoom security make it easier for organisations to protect users and prevent breaches and unauthorised meeting access

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Russian interference in US elections ramps up on schedule

  With the critical US 2020 presidential election looming, Russian-state backed hackers are once again after organisations directly involved in political elections, launching thousands of targeted attacks

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Cyber security is next frontier for open source

  Open security will facilitate the interoperability and capabilities of cyber security tools while alleviating vendor lock-in for enterprises, says IBM

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Lorca security scaleups hit funding milestone

  £153m of investment has been raised by Lorca cohort companies in just two years, almost four times the original target

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Assange prosecution would put journalists around the world at risk

  Trevor Timm, co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, tells a court that if the US prosecutes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, every reporter who receives a secret document will be criminalised

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  US conspiracy charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘politically motivated’

  US journalism historian and investigative journalist Mark Feldstein tells a UK court that use of the Espionage Act against Assange will have wide implications for the press

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  Julian Assange warned against interrupting witnesses in extradition hearing

  On the second day of his extradition hearing at the Old Bailey, judge informs the WikiLeaks founder he could be removed and potentially banned from court for interrupting witnesses

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Court rejects request to exclude ‘11th hour’ US evidence against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  Lawyers for Julian Assange say the US has introduced an 11th hour indictment against the WikiLeaks founder that provides additional grounds for his extradition

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Government DPOs challenged by volume of GDPR work

  Data protection officers working across the UK government are finding it tough to keep up with the increased workload generated by GDPR, according to a report

• September 06, 2020 06 Sep'20

  Why predictive threat intelligence is key

  Threat intelligence startup Cyfirma is using virtual agents to gather intelligence on potential cyber attacks that are being coordinated in underground forums before they occur

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Lockdown sees increase in girls applying for GCHQ cyber courses

  The shift to online learning saw an increase in participants for its CyberFirst cyber security training programme, GCHQ found

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Phishing scam targets Lloyds Bank customers

  Bank customers warned of emails and SMS messages that direct them to a fraudulent site and then request account log-in details

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Only 10% of tech talent have cyber skills to fill skills gap

  The UK has a growing need for cyber skills as a result of the pandemic, but few IT professionals have the skills firms actually need

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Northumbria University suffers major disruption after cyber attack

  Some exams cancelled as university appoints external specialists to investigate incident

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Benefit fraud: Underground trade in stolen identities revealed

  A roaring underground trade in stolen identities is undermining the Universal Credit system and could potentially defraud it out of millions of pounds

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  DDoS downs New Zealand stock exchange for third day

  Distributed denial of service attack from overseas has left stock exchange offline for days

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  NHS whistleblowers’ anonymity at mercy of inadequate trust IT policies and processes

  They were clapped in the streets for their bravery at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, but some NHS staff who raise workplace concerns are suffering abuse as a result

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  TikTok CEO clocks off

  TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has resigned from the firm after just three months

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Avaddon ransomware operators having a go at double extortion

  The operators of the Avaddon ransomware seem to be tooling up to leak the data of their victims in addition to holding it to ransom, Cofense researchers confirm

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  TikTok takes Trump to court

  Under-fire video app TikTok files a formal complaint in the federal courts challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to ban it in the US

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  TikTok’s GDPR compliance probed amid accusations of data misuse

  Dutch privacy organisation SOMI claims TikTok falls short in protecting young users, and that it is likely violating GDPR

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  MPs accuse ICO of failing to do its job on contact-tracing data

  Cross-party group of MPs say the ICO has failed to enforce data protection standards or hold the government to account over the unlawful Test and Trace programme

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Australian regulator sues RI Advice for cyber security lapses

  The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is suing RI Advice for cyber security breaches at the financial firm’s authorised representatives

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  UKAS rejects ISO certification concerns

  UK’s certification body says refreshed guidance is in place to cover the possibility of lapsed ISO certifications

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Social media data leak highlights murky world of data scraping

  A data brokerage left its database of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles exposed to anybody who cared to access it

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  HMRC investigates over 10,000 Covid-19 phishing reports

  HM Revenue & Customs received thousands of reports of coronavirus phishing scams exploiting its name during April, May and June