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  • Tesco Bank fined £16.4m for cyber security failures

    • 3 Oct 2018

    Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4 million for its lax reaction to a cyber attack from late 2016 and the sub-standard cyber security defences that led to it.

  • Up to 50m Facebook accounts compromised by ‘View As’ flaw

    • 2 Oct 2018

    Around 90 million Facebook users were asked to re-enter their log-in details after it emerged that a widespread security flaw may have been exploited by hackers to access a user’s account.

  • Check Point named Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for seven years running

    • 28 Sep 2018

    Check Point Software Technologies has been recognised as a leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (UTM) for the seventh year in a row.

  • How a very public cyber attack can deal long-term reputational damage

    • 26 Sep 2018

    New research has highlighted how a cyber attack can cause seemingly irreparable damage to a company’s reputation.

  • GCHQ launches recruitment drive ahead of new Manchester office

    • 26 Sep 2018

    GCHQ is appealing for specialists in various areas of technology ahead of the opening of its new Manchester office in 2019.

  • Equifax narrowly escapes hefty GDPR fine for 2017’s hack

    • 26 Sep 2018

    Equifax has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for cyber security failures that led to hackers accessing personal information for up to 15 million UK citizens.

  • What are the five biggest cyber security challenges facing small businesses?

    • 26 Sep 2018

    Small to medium-sized businesses don’t always have the time and resources to identify shortcomings in their cyber security.

  • Virtual College shortlisted for two prestigious awards

    • 21 Sep 2018

    Online courses provider Virtual College has had its recent successes recognised in two prestigious award lists.

  • BlackBerry and Check Point team up to better protect increasingly agile organisations

    • 18 Sep 2018

    BlackBerry has called in Check Point Software to mitigate against cyber security threats and focus on protecting enterprises from emerging cyber attacks.

  • Banking trojans were on the march for the second summer running

    • 18 Sep 2018

    August saw a significant increase in cyber attacks involving the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact in recent months after a large scale campaign that has been converting victim’s machines into malicious proxy servers.

  • Report flags concerning rise in malicious software targeting ICS computers

    • 12 Sep 2018

    Two in five industrial control systems (ICS) computers were attacked by malicious software at least once in the first half of 2018.

  • Ransom Warrior rendered toothless by hard-coded keys

    • 10 Sep 2018

    The Ransom Warrior ransomware may have been tamed for good after cyber security researchers developed a decryption tool to unlock affected machines.

  • Decade-old vulnerabilities still being exploited by hackers

    • 10 Sep 2018

    Cyber criminals are exploiting security software flaws that are almost a decade old, a new report has found.

  • UK was ‘right to blame Russia for Salisbury novichok’ as suspects named

    • 6 Sep 2018

    Two Russian nationals have been named as the key suspects in the Salisbury novichok poisoning incident from March this year.

  • 2018: the year malware got versatile

    • 4 Sep 2018

    Malware became more versatile in the first half of this year, according to a report on botnet activity by Kaspersky Lab.

  • Fortnite developer hits out at Google over malware scam

    • 3 Sep 2018

    Google has been accused of “creating an unnecessary risk for Android users to score cheap PR points” after revealing how an app used to install hit game Fortnite could be compromised to load malware.

  • BAE Systems names cyber security forum leaders

    • 29 Aug 2018

    Senior cyber security figures from Microsoft, Vodafone and ITV are amongst the ten people appointed to the steering committee for BAE Systems’ new cyber security forum and lobbying group.

  • Why our increased device dependence should make cyber security a top priority

    • 28 Aug 2018

    Almost a quarter of consumers (23 per cent) would prefer to be caught naked in public than be without their digital device, according to a new study highlighting how much people depend on their tech today.

  • BAE Systems to develop cyber defence tools for massive enterprise networks

    • 20 Aug 2018

    BAE Systems has been tasked with developing tools capable of detecting and analysing cyber threats that will help protect extremely large enterprise networks.

  • Ex-armed forces encouraged to transfer skills to cyber security sector

    • 20 Aug 2018

    More veterans are set to embark on a new career in cyber security after the Ministry of Defence teamed up with an innovative start-up.