UK to fund national cyber teams in Global South

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has committed to investing £22m in establishing cyber capacity in developing and vulnerable countries in the so-called Global South as part of the government’s post-Brexit... Read more »

Microsoft fixes four critical bugs on lighter Patch Tuesday

In a lighter than usual Patch Tuesday drop, Microsoft has fixed a total of 55 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), four of them rated critical by Microsoft, and including... Read more »

The Security Interviews: Why helpful bots could hurt vaccine roll-outs

Web traffic generated by automated bots hit record highs in 2020, accounting for 40.8% of all internet traffic, up 6.2% on the previous year. That is according to the... Read more »

UK Plc invited to sign up for Early Warning of cyber incidents

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced the addition of an Early Warning cyber incident notification service to its Active Cyber Defence programme, inviting organisations from across... Read more »

Collaboration key to success of UK’s Cyber Security Council

Collaboration in the cyber security sector will be critical in meeting the goals of the UK’s new Cyber Security Council, according to its founders, who formally launched the initiative... Read more »

NCSC cyber guidance targets cloud and home working

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published refreshed cyber security guidance to take account of how quickly the threat landscape has changed in the past year to... Read more »

Government to reform Computer Misuse Act

The government is to begin work on reforming the 31-year-old Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990, and has set out plans to launch a consultation to gather input and... Read more »

SolarWinds CEO calls for collective action against state attacks

SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna has revealed he is talking with his peers in the industry to form a consortium of like-minded, midmarket firms that could take collective action to... Read more »

Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has grave consequences

The consequences of Friday’s DarkSide ransomware attack against the operator of the Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US, are spreading rapidly, with real-world disruption now cascading... Read more »

Swedish court finds ambiguities in hacked EncroChat cryptophone evidence

A Swedish court has overturned a ruling to convict a 23-year-old man accused of illegal firearm possession based on evidence obtained from the EncroChat hack, raising questions about its... Read more »
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