Cybersecurity in Healthcare Needs a Profound Rethink

From addressing tech obsolescence to improving digital resilience Imagine a hospital paralyzed by ransomware, critical medical devices rendered inoperative, and sensitive patient data stolen. Unfortunately, it’s a reality that many healthcare organizations across Europe, and the world, have faced. As healthcare systems undergo digital transformation, policymakers and healthcare leaders must confront an uncomfortable truth: cybersecurity […]

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AI Impact On Cybersecurity Jobs in 2025

LinkedIn’s Skills on the Rise report says, AI literacy will continue to be the skill that “professionals are prioritizing and companies are increasingly hiring for.” AI isn’t a new technology, but it’s hitting the Cybersecurity job market fast and hard. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 3.5 million unfilled jobs in the cybersecurity industry through 2025, […]

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5 Lessons Learned From The World’s Biggest Cyberattacks

Cybercrime is accelerating at an alarming rate, with Cybersecurity Ventures expecting around $10.5 trillion USD to be lost to the global economy in 2025 thanks to hackers, data thieves, phishers and other “bad actors”. The biggest, headline-grabbing heists involve eye-watering figures that are hard to comprehend—records and dollars are looted in their millions. But they still […]

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Financial impact of cyber attacks on UK retailers laid bare in new report

Cyber attacks against M&S and Co-op earlier this year cost anywhere between £270 million to £440m, according to analysis by the Cyber Monitoring Centre. In April, British retailers were targeted with a series of ransomware attacks, with M&S taking down online sales and later admitting customer data was stolen. Co-op shut down aspects of its own IT system to limit disruption […]

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Target Canadian Telecom Firms

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI have issued a warning over hacker attacks conducted by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors against telecommunication companies in Canada. The warning focuses on attacks conducted by Salt Typhoon, the threat group known for targeting several major telecom firms in the United States and elsewhere as part of espionage operations. In […]

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Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption schemes that will withstand attacks from quantum computers, and other existing controls. The executive order (EO), issued on June 6, reverses several key cybersecurity […]

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US critical infrastructure could become casualty of Iran-Israel conflict

Security researchers are warning that the outbreak of direct hostilities between Israel and Iran may soon lead to malicious cyberattacks against critical infrastructure sites in the U.S. from state-linked actors, hacktivist groups and cyber criminals. State-backed and hacktivist cyber threats against Israel and the U.S.’s Middle Eastern allies are escalating, according to researchers at Radware. Experts […]

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