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• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  European cyber attacks up nearly a third in first quarter 2018

  The volume of cyber attacks hitting digital transactions in Europe was up by almost a third in the first quarter of 2018 compared with same period a year ago, a report reveals

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  APAC is becoming a hotspot for DDoS attacks

  The region’s largest and most-connected economies are most vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to CenturyLink

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Government to set up £13.5m cyber security centre

  Located at the 2012 Olympic Park, the London Cyber Innovation Centre could create up to 2,000 jobs in cyber security

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Facebook announces more privacy control updates

  Social media giant updates privacy settings and tools in response to the unfolding controversy over Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data for political campaigns

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Dutch SMEs’ cyber security is insufficient

  Nowhere in the Netherlands is digitisation as big as it is in small and medium-sized enterprises, but the sector still has a lot to do in terms of cyber security

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Cryptojacking cyber criminals up their game

  Cyber criminals hijacking computing resources to mine for cryptocurrencies are raising their efforts to bypass enterprise security controls, researchers have found

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Mac malware more than doubled in 2017

  Malware targeting Apple Mac computers more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to security firm Malwarebytes

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  Tech industry signs cyber security charter

  Nine technology organisations have signed a cyber security charter aimed at raising the level of cyber security internationally

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Telegram zero-day exploit is a warning

  The discovery of an exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app demonstrates that not all “secure” apps are automatically safe, security experts have warned

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  FS-ISAC enables safer financial data sharing with API

  The global financial industry's body for cyber and physical threat intelligence analysis and sharing has published an API to facilitate safer sharing of consumer financial information

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Criminals hijack government sites to mine cryptocurrency used to hide wealth

  Europol says criminals are hiding billions in cryptocurrencies, as thousands of government and other websites have reportedly been used to hijack computers to mine more

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  PyeongChang Winter Games hit by cyber attack

  Although critical operations were not affected by the incident, event organisers at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics had to shut down servers and the official games website to prevent further damage

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Lauri Love plans to use ‘internet as a force for good’

  Engineering student Lauri Love says he plans to help businesses fight cyber crime, after the court of appeal ruled that he can be tried in the UK for allegedly hacking US computer systems, rather than face extradition to the US

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Researchers discover malicious Chrome extensions

  Security researchers have discovered a new botnet delivered via malicious Chrome extensions designed to hijack computers to mine cryptocurrency and record victims’ every move

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  ASEAN nations among worst hit by cryptocurrency-mining operation

  Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia recorded high download numbers for the XMRig software that was surreptitiously slipped into user devices to mine Monero

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Many businesses still using outdated security, says Troy Hunt

  Too many businesses are using out-of-date approaches to security, a world-renowned cyber security author and trainer warns

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  UK finance sector cyber security pros admit shocking practices

  UK financial sector IT security teams face immense challenges that are undermining business opportunities and continuity in financial services, a survey reveals

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Facebook offers funding to secure the internet

  Facebook has announced that it is offering funding for research into ways of improving internet security

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Taking complexity out of cyber security

  The key to improving the cyber security posture of organisations is to keep complexity at bay, according to a senior Microsoft executive

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Mobile app flaws are a risk to industrial IT systems, says report

  Cyber security vulnerabilities in mobile applications could be exploited to compromise industrial network infrastructure, a report warns

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Sweden steps up cyber defence measures

  Sweden is tightening up its cyber security defences as part of a wider national security strategy

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• December 21, 2017 21 Dec'17

  IT Priorities 2018: South Korea to spend more on big data and IoT

  South Korean companies are expected to spend more in emerging technologies as well as move more workloads to the cloud in the coming year

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  UK government blames North Korea for WannaCry cyber attack

  The UK and US governments say a North Korean group was responsible for the ransomware attacks that hit the NHS and other organisations globally this year

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Kaspersky Lab appeals US ban

  Russian security software giant appeals US government's decision to ban the use of its products in federal agencies

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  Singapore’s defence ministry starts bug bounty programme

  Bug bounty programme will offer rewards of up to S$20,000 for identifying loopholes in internet-facing systems used by defence and military personnel

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  The Dutch government defines cyber threat actors

  The Dutch government commissions the creation of a scientific classification of individuals and groups involved in cyber crime

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Barclays Bank stops offering Kaspersky software to new users

  Bank is no longer offering customers Kaspersky anti-virus software after UK security agency issues warning

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Lauri Love would face ‘medieval’ conditions in US prison if extradited over hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love should be tried in the UK, court hears, as new evidence is presented on the “medieval” conditions in US jails for people with medical problems

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  Ransomware rages on with no signs of abating

  The rampant digital extortion facilitated by ransomware in 2017 will continue next year, with healthcare and industrial systems expected to be new prime targets

• November 06, 2017 06 Nov'17

  Any online business a target of DDoS attacks

  Any business that is online is susceptible to denial of service attacks and should ensure it has the capability to mitigate such attacks, says an industry practitioner who explains how

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Messaging apps a growing business security risk, study shows

  Businesses should introduce urgent policy changes to catch up with the reality of employees’ use of messaging apps, which is a growing security risk, say security researchers

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Google debuts additional identity protection services

  Google has rolled out new identity protection features across its account base, including advanced protection for at-risk users

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  RSA’s Middle East cyber security conference gains its own identity

  RSA Abu Dhabi conference focuses on region’s cyber security needs as digital technology deployments expand

• October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17

  Cyber security a business necessity

  Cyber security is a business necessity, according to the T-Mobile security chief in Poland

• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Singapore’s public sector finds agility and speed in AWS

  City-state’s government has been able to meet peak demands and address security issues through a cloud-based web-hosting platform powered by Amazon Web Services

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  High percentage of education organisations were victims of DNS attacks in 2016, survey finds

  The majority of worldwide education organisations were hit with a DNS attack in 2016, according to a survey from EfficientIP

• September 18, 2017 18 Sep'17

  UAE banks share information to combat cyber threats

  Banks in the United Arab Emirates will share information on cyber attacks through a platform instigated by the country’s banking federation

• September 18, 2017 18 Sep'17

  Heads roll as Equifax reveals 400,000 Britons affected by breach

  Equifax replaces two senior staff members as it reveals how many Britons were hit by a massive data breach that affected millions of consumers

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Equifax confirms massive data breach was result of missed patch

  Equifax appears to have failed to roll out a patch that might have stopped the massive breach of its systems

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  UK universities increasingly targeted by cyber criminals

  Cyber attacks are turning their attention to UK universities, with research being the main prize

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap

  Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  UK business urged to do more as ID fraud continues to rise

  Identity fraud continued to increase at a record rate in the first half of 2017, reaching epidemic levels, a fraud data report has revealed

• August 11, 2017 11 Aug'17

  Manufacturing a key target for cyber attacks

  Manufacturers are a key and growing target for cyber criminals, a threat intelligence report reveals

• August 09, 2017 09 Aug'17

  Websites giving hackers easy access, audit reveals

  Many company websites still contain critical vulnerabilities that cyber criminals can use to carry out a variety of cyber attacks, a security audit shows

• August 04, 2017 04 Aug'17

  Security audits reveal poor state of corporate cyber defences

  Critical vulnerabilities detected in 47% of corporate systems investigated in security audits by Positive Technologies

• July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17

  Nordic digitisation brings unwanted consequence of heightened cyber security risks

  The Nordic region is becoming highly connected – which has not gone unnoticed by cyber criminals

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  London security centre handed £14.5m to get off the ground

  The government is to fund a new cyber security innovation centre in the capital and has launched a competition to develop and design it