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A Bill that would give the Government greater powers to shut out high-risk vendors from the UK’s telecoms infrastructure will be laid before Parliament on Tuesday.
The Telecommunications (Security) Bill would create national security powers capable of imposing controls on when – if at all – a telecoms firm could use material supplied by companies such as Huawei.
It is understood Campari was struck with Ragnar Locker, a sophisticated and relatively new form of ransomware first observed in 2019 affecting Microsoft Windows machines and associated with a hacking group of the same name. Security vendor Sophos has previously detected Ragnar Locker deployed inside a virtual machine to hide it from view.
UK cyber agency’s yearly review found that 194 of the incidents were linked to the coronavirus pandemic The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) defended the UK from more than 700 cyber attacks over the last year, the organisation’s annual review has revealed. The cyber security agency said it had handled 723 cyber incidents between September… Read More
UK businesses are more at risk from cyber attacks because of challenges posed by large-scale remote working, new research has warned.
A report by the Ponemon Institute and Keeper Security found 60% of those surveyed said their organisation had been hit by a cyber attack.
Hackney Council has been hit by a cyber attack which is affecting many of its services and IT systems, the council has said.
Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville said the council was working with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to investigate and respond to the incident.
Microsoft has announced legal action seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than a million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts consider a major threat to the US presidential election.
Cybercriminals often use famous people or topics as a way to draw in web users in an effort to get them to click on links which can lead to viruses being installed on their device, which could then harvest personal data or lock access to it.
McAfee’s annual report on the issue found that well-known cybercriminals appeared to be favouring British personalities for scams this year, with eight of the top ten in the most dangerous list being British.
VMware kicked off virtual VMworld 2020 with a string of new cloud services and integrations with the world’s leading public cloud providers to strengthen its multi-cloud proposition.
Improved support for the VMware Tanzu product range is now being rolled out across VMware’s AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle and Azure partnerships, partnerships VMware launched to enable vSphere customers to embrace the hybrid cloud trend.
The gaming industry is under near-constant attack from cybercriminals, with gamers also regularly targeted, research suggests.
Research from cybersecurity and content delivery firm Akamai said there had been ten billion attacks on the games sector between July 2018 and June 2020.
The UK’s cybersecurity agency has issued an alert to schools, colleges and universities about an increase in hacking attempts around the start of the new academic year.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned the education sector to be aware of ransomware attacks and urged organisations to follow their guidance on securing their networks.
Wales’ national public health agency has apologised after accidentally uploading the data of every citizen who tested positive for Covid-19 to a public-facing server.
Public Health Wales (PHW) confirmed the personal data of 18,105 Welsh residents was uploaded by mistake to the insecure server and searchable by anyone using the site.
The world is one step closer to having a totally secure internet and an answer to the growing threat of cyber-attacks, according to scientists.
A prototype, designed by a team at the University of Bristol, could transform the security of online communication for millions of people across the globe.