A cyber security law introduced three years ago was meant to boost the resilience of the UK’s energy sector by obliging gas and electricity firms to report when they were hacked. But since then not a single report has been made, Sky News can reveal, despite numerous successful hacks of British energy firms attributed to […]
End of an era James Pavur, a security researcher and Oxford University PhD student who has done extensive research into satellite broadband security risks, told The Daily Swig that the era when satellite systems were beyond the reach of hackers is coming to an end. “Satellite systems used to be made up of expensive kit, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to have authorised attempts to influence last year’s US election in favour of former President Donald Trump, intelligence officials say. Moscow spread “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about the eventual winner, Joe Biden, according to a US government report. But it said no foreign government had compromised the final results. […]
The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States — and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them — are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyberthreats. Both hacks exploited […]
What is Article III standing? In legal parlance, ‘standing’ is the legal right for an individual to bring a claim in court. ‘Article III standing’ refers to the Case or Controversy Clause of the US Constitution (located in Article III, Section 2, Clause 1), which is the basis for many important court decisions addressing standing. […]
Telecommunications giant Vodafone is calling for the introduction of new cybersecurity policies to help small businesses in the UK recover from the impact of the global health pandemic. In a statement released today, the company asked Boris Johnson’s government to protect small and medium-sized businesses by providing more support to the National Cyber Security Centre and making cybersecurity protections […]
Cybersecurity experts briefed government investigators that at least 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers have been breached using a chain of vulnerabilities Microsoft patched on Tuesday. The reports, published by independent reporter Brian Krebs and later by Wired’s Andy Greenberg, would confirm a trend SC Media reported earlier in the week, that security investigators were finding substantially […]
Microsoft has blamed a Chinese cyber-espionage group for attacks on its mail server software. The tech giant said the hackers belonged to a state-backed group, which was a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor”. In a blog post, Microsoft said the hacking campaign made use of four previously undetected vulnerabilities in different versions of the software. […]
Audio-only social network Clubhouse has confirmed that a user managed to stream content from the app on their website. The app allows users to participate in public or private audio chatrooms, promising that the content has to be experienced live and is not recorded. US cyber-security researchers said a user found a way to stream […]
About 30,000 Mac devices have been infected with a mysterious piece of malware. The “unusual” Silver Sparrow strain silently affected systems in more than 150 countries around the world. It was discovered by researchers at security company Red Canary, who have yet to determine its purpose. Apple says it has taken steps to restrict the […]