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09 May 2025
News brief: AI security risks highlighted at RSAC 2025
By Sharon SheaCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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09 May 2025
ServiceNow shops share AI copilot results, prep for agents
By Beth PariseauIT ops teams have often already laid the groundwork for generative AI automation with platform consolidation and the previous wave of AIOps tools.
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09 May 2025
UK broadband hits 2025 target with strong first quarter
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from UK communications regulator finds gigabit broadband on track to become virtually universally available across country by 2023, with the number of full-fibre broadband connections in particular increasing to nine million in past six months
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10 Oct 2024
FTC orders Marriott to pay $52M and enhance security practices
By Arielle WaldmanThe Federal Trade Commission says an investigation revealed that poor security practices led to three data breaches at Marriott and Starwood hotels between 2014 and 2020.
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10 Oct 2024
OpenAI details how threat actors are abusing ChatGPT
By Alexander CulafiWhile threat actors are using generative AI tools like ChatGPT to run election influence operations and develop malware, OpenAI says the efforts are rarely successful.
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10 Oct 2024
NCSC issues fresh alert over wave of Cozy Bear activity
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC, FBI and NSA publish updated warning about Cozy Bear’s activities, highlighting a range of vulnerabilities the threat actor is using to set up its cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
Government launches cyber standard for local authorities
By Alex ScroxtonLocal government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
Internet Archive web historians target of hacktivist cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe Internet Archive nonprofit digital library and Wayback Machine operator has been attacked by pro-Palestinian hacktivists
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10 Oct 2024
How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit
By Alex ScroxtonThreat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them
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10 Oct 2024
UK and US pledge closer working on children’s online safety
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn their first agreement on the subject of children’s online safety, the UK and US governments have said they will create a new working group to boost cooperation
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10 Oct 2024
Australia bolsters cyber defences with security bill
By Stephen WithersLegislation tackles IoT security and establishes a Cyber Incident Review Board to bolster Australia’s cyber resilience
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10 Oct 2024
Coalition: Ransomware severity up 68% in first half of 2024
By Arielle WaldmanThe cyber insurance carrier examined claims trends for the first half of 2024, which showed policyholders experienced disruptive and increasingly costly ransomware attacks.
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10 Oct 2024
Vendor cyber skills gap threatens to underline MDR
By Simon QuickeManaged service providers require high levels of support, but a gap remains, and is threatening to reduce the ability to deliver some cyber solutions
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09 Oct 2024
DOJ focuses on AI in search, weighs Google breakup
By Makenzie HollandWhile the DOJ assesses remedies for Google's illegal control over online search, it's also heavily focused on AI and the future.
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09 Oct 2024
Atlassian 'cloud-first' becomes 'enterprise-first'
By Beth PariseauAtlassian's tune has changed in the past few months, as the company builds bridges to Data Center products and works on FedRAMP cloud compliance.
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09 Oct 2024
Ivanti zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in chained attack
By Alexander CulafiThe new exploit chains targeting Ivanti Cloud Service Application customers are connected to a previously disclosed critical path traversal flaw, CVE-2024-8963.
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09 Oct 2024
Barracuda steps up partner enablement
By Simon QuickeBarracuda enhances support for its channel, with a focus on extending security support for technical specialists
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09 Oct 2024
MoneyGram customer data breached in attack
By Alex ScroxtonMoneyGram confirms that customer data has been stolen in an incident that appears to have started with a social engineering attack on its IT helpdesk staff
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09 Oct 2024
Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonStand-out vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday drop include problems in Microsoft Management Console and the Windows MSHTML Platform
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09 Oct 2024
UK Cyber Team seeks future security professionals
By Alex ScroxtonYoung people from across the UK have a chance to represent the country in international competitions and advance their future careers in cyber security
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08 Oct 2024
Microsoft repairs 2 zero-days on October Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatAdministrators will have to tackle 117 new vulnerabilities, including three rated critical, in this month's batch of security updates.
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08 Oct 2024
Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals
By Alex ScroxtonThe number of active cyber criminal ransomware gangs has surged by almost a third in the space of 12 months, according to the latest intelligence from Secureworks
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08 Oct 2024
High-severity Qualcomm zero-day vulnerability under attack
By Arielle WaldmanQualcomm urges customers to patch the memory corruption vulnerability as Google researchers have observed targeted exploitation in the wild against the flaw.
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08 Oct 2024
UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses
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07 Oct 2024
American Water discloses breach, utilities unaffected
By Alexander CulafiAmerican Water says in its 8-K filing that it disconnected and deactivated certain systems in its incident response, though the nature of the cyberattack is unknown.
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07 Oct 2024
MSPs must train to fill security skills gap
By Simon QuickeFollowing moves by Sophos to increase channel expertise, others in the industry agree with the logic of improving
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07 Oct 2024
IBM: Data breach cost in ASEAN hits new high
By Aaron TanThe average cost of a data breach in ASEAN grew by 7% from last year, as organisations grapple with increasingly distributed IT environments and complex security systems
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04 Oct 2024
UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities
By Alex ScroxtonA series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis
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04 Oct 2024
NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in
By Alex ScroxtonOutgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne
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04 Oct 2024
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
By Alex ScroxtonThe Cups Linux printing vulnerabilities disclosed at the end of September would seem to have a nasty sting in their tail, according to researchers at Akamai
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04 Oct 2024
Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears
By Bill Goodwin and Cormac KehoeDarren Ellis, who led a surveillance operation against journalists who exposed police failures, wrongly accused a solicitor of attempting to buy arms
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03 Oct 2024
Ex-PSNI officer seeking legal advice over comments made at Investigatory Powers Tribunal
By Bill GoodwinEx PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists
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03 Oct 2024
Microsoft SFI progress report elicits cautious optimism
By Alexander CulafiInfosec experts say the Secure Future Initiative progress report shows Microsoft has made important changes to its policies, practices and accountability structures.
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03 Oct 2024
Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has been given permission to seize multiple domains used by the Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard as part of a coordinated disruption effort undertaken ahead of the US elections
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03 Oct 2024
SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity operations centre practitioners are fed up of being flooded with pointless alerts and many no longer have much confidence in their threat detection tools, according to a report
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03 Oct 2024
Sophos steps up partner training as skill gaps continue
By Simon QuickeSecurity player Sophos rolls out more education for the channel at a time when customer security skills continue to be in short supply
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03 Oct 2024
Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest
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03 Oct 2024
Cryptomining perfctl malware swarms Linux machines
By Alexander CulafiAqua Security researchers believe that perfctl malware has infected thousands of Linux machines in the last three to four years and that countless more could be next.
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02 Oct 2024
UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims
By Alex ScroxtonAt the fourth Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit in the US, both the UK and Singapore have committed to working on new guidance designed to better support victims and undermine cyber criminal business models
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02 Oct 2024
Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions
By Bill GoodwinA former detective claimed Irish judges were ‘sectarians in robes’ after a court found police had unlawfully arrested journalists who produced a film exposing collusion with paramilitary murderers
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02 Oct 2024
Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
By Alex ScroxtonMore people than ever are joining the cyber security profession in the UK, according to a report, but there is still a serious shortage even with a doubling in numbers
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02 Oct 2024
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay
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02 Oct 2024
Distributor e92plus looks to the future after marking 35 years
By Simon QuickeThe boss of security distributor e92plus, Mukesh Gupta, shares his thoughts on expansion, legacy and what the 35-year milestone means
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01 Oct 2024
Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case
By Bill Goodwin & Cormac KehoeFormer Durham detective Darren Ellis told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that he had concerns about lawyers acting for journalists placed under surveillance by Northern Irish police
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01 Oct 2024
Law enforcement agencies arrest 4 alleged LockBit members
By Arielle WaldmanOperation Cronos' efforts to disrupt the LockBit ransomware gang continue as authorities announced the arrests of four alleged members, including one developer.
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01 Oct 2024
T-Mobile reaches $31.5M breach settlement with FCC
By Alexander CulafiAfter suffering several breaches, T-Mobile agreed to pay a $15.75 million civil penalty and make a $15.75 million investment to bolster its security over the next two years.
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01 Oct 2024
Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCA has named and shamed a prominent member of the Evil Corp cyber crime collective who also worked as an affiliate of the LockBit ransomware gang as the UK unveils new sanctions against 16 Russian cyber criminals
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01 Oct 2024
Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale
By Cliff SaranSurvey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation
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01 Oct 2024
Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office offered a short extension to enable it to asses the impact of the MoneyGram cyber incident, but the contract has now expired and MoneyGram services are no longer available in Post Office branches
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01 Oct 2024
Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
By Alex ScroxtonOver 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA
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27 Sep 2024
UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and counterpart agencies in the US have issued a warning over enhanced Iranian spear phishing activity targeting politicians, journalists, activists and others with an interest in Middle Eastern affairs
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27 Sep 2024
CUPS vulnerabilities could put Linux systems at risk
By Arielle WaldmanSecurity researcher Simone Margaritelli discovered vulnerabilities in the Common UNIX Printing System that attackers could exploit during print jobs against Linux systems.
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27 Sep 2024
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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27 Sep 2024
How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI
By Aaron TanMalaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy
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26 Sep 2024
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
By Alex ScroxtonPolice have revealed that this week’s racist cyber attack on public Wi-Fi networks at stations across the UK appears to have been the work of a malicious insider, after arresting an employee of one of the service providers
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26 Sep 2024
Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
By Alex ScroxtonAn apparent hacktivist attack disrupted public-facing Wi-Fi networks at UK rail stations to display Islamophobic content
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26 Sep 2024
Onapsis debuts SAP security capabilities for BTP
By Jim O'DonnellNew capabilities from Onapsis are aimed at enabling customers to assess security for and protect SAP Business Technology Platform from configuration and other vulnerabilities.
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26 Sep 2024
Ransomware Task Force finds 73% attack increase in 2023
By Arielle WaldmanThe Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force says a shift to big game hunting tactics led to a significant rise in attacks last year.
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26 Sep 2024
Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade
By Stephen WithersA major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI
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25 Sep 2024
More Ivanti vulnerabilities exploited in the wild
By Rob WrightThree vulnerabilities in Ivanti products have come under attack by unknown threat actors in recent weeks, including two flaws in the company's Cloud Services Appliance.
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25 Sep 2024
CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers appears before a US government committee to explain the series of errors that led directly to one of the biggest IT outages in history
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25 Sep 2024
Splunk and Cisco integration moving apace
By Aaron TanSplunk is rapidly integrating with Cisco’s technology to enable seamless transitions between their platforms while delivering advanced threat detection capabilities
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24 Sep 2024
CrowdStrike exec apologizes to Congress, shares updates
By Makenzie HollandCrowdStrike changed the way it rolls out content updates as a result of the global IT outage caused by a faulty update in July.
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24 Sep 2024
Proposed ban on connected vehicle tech from China too broad
By Makenzie HollandThe U.S. Commerce Department's proposal to ban software and hardware for connected vehicles imported from China or Russia might face enforcement issues down the road.
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24 Sep 2024
Arkansas City water treatment facility hit by cyberattack
By Arielle WaldmanWhile disruptions are limited, the attack on the water treatment facility highlights how the critical infrastructure sector remains a popular target for threat actors.
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24 Sep 2024
Money transfer firm MoneyGram rushes to contain cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonMoney transfer specialist MoneyGram services remain down several days after a network outage developed into a full-blown cyber security incident
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24 Sep 2024
Unique malware sample volumes seen surging
By Alex ScroxtonBlackBerry’s latest ‘Global threat intelligence’ report details a surge in unique malware samples as threat actors ramp up the pace of targeted attacks
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23 Sep 2024
Microsoft shares progress on Secure Future Initiative
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has published a progress report on its Secure Future Initiative, launched last year in the wake of multiple security incidents, and made a series of commitments to improve its internal cyber culture
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23 Sep 2024
Microsoft issues first Secure Future Initiative report
By Arielle WaldmanIn the first progress report since the launch of its Secure Future Initiative, Microsoft said it's made key improvements to identity and supply chain security.
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23 Sep 2024
Home Office eVisa scheme is ‘broken’, says Open Rights Group
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDigital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the 'hostile environment' around immigration status
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23 Sep 2024
UK, US and Canada to collaborate on AI and cyber security
By Lis EvenstadInternational collaboration agreement will see the governments of Canada, the UK and the US work together to research, evaluate and test new defence technologies
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23 Sep 2024
Medtech startup brings Oracle AI to bear on cancer drug research
By Alex ScroxtonLearn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its cutting-edge AI features are bringing new benefits to cancer care by helping doctors identify better treatment options
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19 Sep 2024
Platform engineers embrace secrets management tool
By Beth PariseauPulumi's ESC, now GA, filled an automation gap in multi-cloud identity and permissions management for platform engineers well-versed in general-purpose programming languages.
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19 Sep 2024
Microsoft warns of Russian election threats, disinformation
By Arielle WaldmanAs the 2024 U.S. presidential election nears, Microsoft detailed new influence campaigns, such as fake videos aimed at discrediting Vice President Kamala Harris.
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19 Sep 2024
FBI disrupts another Chinese state-sponsored botnet
By Rob WrightThe FBI said the massive botnet, which included 260,000 connected devices, was developed and operated by a publicly traded Chinese company named Integrity Technology Group.
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19 Sep 2024
Also Cloud UK and Infinigate expand security rosters
By Simon QuickeDistributors both unveil signings to bolster portfolios with briefs to expand market reach and partner relationships
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19 Sep 2024
HSBC tests post-quantum VPN tunnel for digital ledgers
By Cliff SaranEncryption required for post-quantum cryptography will have a material impact on the performance of distributed ledgers
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19 Sep 2024
Bytes and Maintel share details of H1 progress
By Simon QuickeHalf-year financial updates issued by channel firms both looking towards a stronger finish to fiscal 2024
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18 Sep 2024
Huntress warns of attacks on Foundation Software accounts
By Arielle WaldmanThe cybersecurity company observed a brute force attack campaign targeting Foundation customers that did not change default credentials in their accounting software.
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18 Sep 2024
NCSC exposes Chinese company running malicious Mirai botnet
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and its Five Eyes allies have published details of the activities of a China-based cyber security company that is operating a Mirai IoT botnet in the service of government-backed intrusions
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18 Sep 2024
Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLaw enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre
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18 Sep 2024
Orca: AI services, models falling short on security
By Arielle WaldmanNew research from Orca Security shows that AI services and models in cloud contain a number of risks and security shortcomings that could be exploited by threat actors.
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18 Sep 2024
Police make arrests after hacking Ghost encrypted comms app
By Bill GoodwinAn international police operation has penetrated an end-to-end encrypted communications service allegedly used by organised criminals in Australia, Ireland, Sweden and Italy
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17 Sep 2024
Former OpenAI associates fear AGI, lack of U.S. AI policy
By Makenzie HollandSince the U.S. lacks an overarching AI policy, insiders worry that existing AI harms aren't being addressed and that artificial general intelligence could increase risks.
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17 Sep 2024
Explainable AI systems build trust, mitigate regulatory risk
By Makenzie HollandExplainable AI will look different depending on whether a business is using a predictive, generative or agentic AI system.
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17 Sep 2024
Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation
By Aaron TanCRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration
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17 Sep 2024
First CyberBoost Catalyse startup cohort named
By Alex ScroxtonThe first group of companies named to a cyber incubator programme run by Plexal and the National University of Singapore includes two growing UK businesses
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16 Sep 2024
Windows spoofing flaw exploited in earlier zero-day attacks
By Rob WrightMicrosoft reveals that CVE-2024-43461, which was disclosed in September's Patch Tuesday, was previously exploited as a zero-day vulnerability in an attack chain.
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16 Sep 2024
Crest secures FCDO funding to help overseas countries increase their cyber-readiness
By Caroline DonnellyNon-profit Crest is launching an initiative to help overseas, private-sector firms get better prepared for cyber threats
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16 Sep 2024
EasyDMARC planning to invest in channel
By Simon QuickeSecurity player will use some of its recently secured funding to build out the support it can provide to partners
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15 Sep 2024
UK unites nations to discuss closing global cyber skills gap
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government invites representatives from around the world to a summit to discuss how to address global IT security skills gap
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13 Sep 2024
Analysts make 4 technology predictions for 2025
By Makenzie HollandWhile agentic AI might excite CIOs as the next iteration of AI within business workflows, it will pose challenges for businesses, Forrester Research analysts say.
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13 Sep 2024
Fortinet confirms data breach, extortion demand
By Arielle WaldmanFortinet confirmed that a threat actor stole data from a third-party cloud-based shared file drive, which affected a small number of customers, but many questions remain.
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13 Sep 2024
UN-backed cyber security report highlights global shortfalls in preparedness
By Caroline DonnellyIn the three years since the UN-backed cyber security report was published, countries have been making a concerted effort to protect themselves from cyber threats, but there’s more to do
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13 Sep 2024
Cyber workforce must almost double to meet global talent need
By Clare McDonaldResearch from ISC2 finds global cyber workforce needs additional 4.8 million people to fully secure businesses
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12 Sep 2024
Mastercard to acquire Recorded Future for $2.65B
By Arielle WaldmanMastercard says the addition of threat intelligence vendor Recorded Future will bolster its cybersecurity services as threats against the financial sector continue to rise.
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12 Sep 2024
Teenager arrested in TfL cyber attack investigation
By Cliff SaranNew security measures following the cyber attack, which took down some of TfL’s services, have led to delays in contactless roll-out
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12 Sep 2024
Lord introduces bill to regulate public sector AI and automation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA private members’ bill seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated technologies throughout the public sector has been brought to Parliament
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12 Sep 2024
Data sharing for immigration raids ferments hostility to migrants
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonData sharing between public and private bodies for the purposes of carrying out immigration raids helps to prop up the UK’s hostile environment by instilling an atmosphere of fear and deterring migrants from accessing public services
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11 Sep 2024
Datacentres granted critical national infrastructure status
By Cliff SaranThe global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike has shown why keeping datacentres secure and safe is critical to the UK
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11 Sep 2024
Generative AI pushes CIOs to adapt strategy, find use cases
By Makenzie HollandA strong AI strategy will help CIOs pick AI use cases and shed projects that aren't feasible at the moment.
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11 Sep 2024
Microsoft: Zero-day vulnerability rolled back previous patches
By Arielle WaldmanOn Patch Tuesday, Microsoft addresses a critical zero-day vulnerability that reversed previous fixes for older vulnerabilities and put Windows 10 systems at risk.
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11 Sep 2024
Latin America move ‘a natural choice’ for Assured Data Protection
By Simon QuickeFollowing the announcement of a joint venture with Rubrik to cover the Latin America region, Assured Data Protection’s co-founder shares details of the motivation behind the decision