LATEST HEADLINES
Facebook reportedly fixes search bug that could have threatened user privacy
Facebook earlier this year reportedly patched a vulnerability in its search page that could have allowed enterprising attackers to perform reconnaissance on certain users.
Sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign targeting Pakistani government and air force
Security researchers at Cylance have unearthed a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign being run by a state-sponsored hacker group dubbed The White Company.
Google goes down in border gateway protocol routing 'mishap'
Google Cloud services suffered minor outages overnight as traffic was rerouted through China servers.
Google's first Android security transparency report highlights dangers of third-party app stores
Android users who download from Google Play are less likely to install potentially harmful apps than those who download from unofficial third-party stores, according to the inaugural edition of Google's quarterly Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report.
OPINION
The lack of skilled people to work on cyber-defence may not be the problem it appears.
Humans are mostly late and slow when responding to complex systems. Developing autonomous cyber-defence systems can provide the sophistication needed to monitor and manage this escalation.
How to effectively deal with spear phishing attacks
Phishing defences include preventing unknown software from runnng or installing itself, including AutoRun on USB and CD; malware protection, using a HTTP referrer header; identifying known attack vectors.....
The challenges of IT/OT cyber-security convergence in today's industrial revolution
While challenging to achieve, IT/OT convergence will enable more direct control and monitoring of complex industrial systems around the world, eliminate security gaps & reduce an organisation's overall cyber-risk.
Securing the weakest link in IoT
By scraping and disassembling the firmware image of devices on the ecosystem, the hacker has an entire blueprint of how the system operates and can impersonate the device for access to the backend systems.
FEATURE
Exclusive: US, Canada & UK mount podium in dark web top 50 data leak table
Ranking countries whose data is availabe on the dark web, the UK came out third - ie third worst - for having its data exposed - after the US and Canada - albeit using TDLs as a proxy for source.
Re-thinking the internet - if we could start again, how would it change?
The Internet celebrates its 50th birthday - an awesome system that's insecure with new insecure access devices being added exponentially. If we do want change, we have to do it now says Berners Lee.
Interview Google: searching for the security/privacy balance
Google knows lots about us, but it has to tread a balance between using that data to enhance services, while respecting our privacy and keeping our details secure.
Salary survey 2018/19: Are you worth it?
SC's UK cyber-security salary explains attributes for different roles, shows high demand & huge variation: junior analysts, £25K in manufacturing; public sector CISOs on £95k, colleagues at large banks - £500k.
VIDEOS
Barry Scott, CTO, EMEA, Centrify discusses the security vulnerabilities that young people bring to business.
Daniel Solis, CEO and founder at Blueliv, and Patryk Pilat, discuss recent research on credential theft.
[Video] Apricorn: EU GDPR - So What Do We Do Now?
Tony Morbin, Editor-in-Chief of SC Media UK interviews Jon Fielding, managing director, Apricorn, EMEA about new research from Apricorn highlighting exactly how massively ill-prepared companies are for last month’s deadline for enforcement of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.
NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Report 2018 Highlights
NTT Security released their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) for 2018, it stated that ransomware is up 350 percent from 2017 and spyware ranks first in volume of malware at 26 percent reflecting attackers' desire for long-term presence for information.
NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Report 2018 Full
NTT Security released their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) for 2018, it stated that ransomware is up 350 percent from 2017 and spyware ranks first in volume of malware at 26 percent reflecting attackers' desire for long-term presence for information.
SC Media UK roundtable with Logpoint
Discussing 'the true value of actionable intelligence', SC Media UK's latest roundtable with Logpoint saw a gathering of senior cyber-security practitioners to discuss actionable threat intelligence. Eleven distinguished guests engaged in discussion on the topic at the event, sponsored by LogPoint at the Duck & Waffle restaurant in London's Heron Tower; the session was moderated by SC's editor-in-chief Tony Morbin.
Upcoming Events
Webcast: Threat intelligence – What does a lean enterprise need to know around CTI?
Every vendor is pushing a threat intelligence feed, program, and/or product. How does a lean organisation separate the hype from the actual value?
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Webcast: Phishing, a phact of life - how to minimise its impact
Phishing has been around almost as long as the internet, but its still going strong and getting more sophisticated. Why? Because it works.
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