Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department has said its computer network has been breached in a targeted cyber-attack, US media report. A ransomware group called Babuk is reportedly threatening to release sensitive data on police informants if it is not contacted within three days. The FBI is investigating the extent of the breach, US media reported, […]
Britain and its allies face a “moment of reckoning” in which secure encryption and other future technologies may no longer be “shaped and controlled by the west”, according to the head of the spy agency GCHQ. In a speech on Friday, Jeremy Fleming will say the UK has to “develop sovereign technologies” and work with […]
The Biden administration kicked off a 100-day effort on Tuesday to beef up cybersecurity in the nation’s power grid, calling for industry leaders to install technologies that could thwart attacks on the electricity supply. The move follows a high-profile, if unsuccessful, cyberattack in Florida that sought to compromise a water treatment plant, which highlighted some […]
Nearly 70% of employees polled in a new survey said they recently received cybersecurity training from their employers, yet 61% nevertheless failed when asked to take a basic quiz on the topic. This was one of the leading findings of a research study – conducted by TalentLMS on behalf of Kenna Security – that sought […]
In recent years, small towns and municipalities have been increasingly targeted by cybercriminals, not only just for monetary profit, but also to disrupt infrastructure and even threaten citizens. Most recently, we saw a hacker try to compromise internal systems to effectively poison the entire town’s water supply in Oldsmar, Florida. While ultimately unsuccessful, this incident […]
A data leak involving personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users is being reviewed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). The database is believed to contain a mix of Facebook profile names, phone numbers, locations and other facts about more than 530 million people. Facebook says the data is “old”, from a previously-reported […]
With an unexpected year of massive change behind us, many organizations have now an extensive remote workforce, new technologies in use, and digital transformation under way across the board. While this has introduced many opportunities for SMBs, it has also come with a host of cybersecurity challenges. To meet these challenges, you must start by […]
There can be no doubt that the last year has been unprecedented for businesses. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious challenges with many companies not even being able to stay open for the majority of the year, and even those that were able to open found themselves struggling with constantly changing governmental advice and fluctuating […]
A new survey has highlighted the cybersecurity risks remote workers face in the new era of home working, against a constant background of breaches and attacks. The survey, carried out for cloud provider Doherty Associates, covered 3,000 IT decision makers (ITDMs) and 2,000 general workforce members across companies in private equity, investment, asset management, insurance/underwriting […]
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 […]