LATEST HEADLINES
Five things we learned from the NCSC Annual Review this week
The launch of the National Cyber Security Centre's second annual review this week told us something about the progress that the organisation has been making - and hinted at areas where it will develop.
UK banks and insurers team up to fight cyber-crime
New body will oversee efforts to combat cyber-criminals. The UK's biggest insurers and banks have teamed up to create a new organisation to defend the country's financial infrastructure against cyber-attacks.
Tumblr bug bounty program detects flaw, no user info lost
The social media site Tumblr disclosed was able to head off a potential cyber-security issue when its bug bounty program revealed a vulnerability that could have exposed user PII.
Report: Spammers, not nation-state actors, suspected in Facebook breach
Facebook now suspects it was criminal scam artists and not nation-state actors who compromised tens of millions of accounts in a major data breach that was discovered last month, according to the Wall Street Journal.
OPINION
The rise of cryptomining: how to avoid this digital parasite leeching off your organisation
Cryptomining can seriously disrupt business operations by overloading systems to the point where they become unresponsive and shut down - and stockpiling the currency to pay ransoms makes you a target.
The seven biggest Champions League cyber-threats
Champions League attacks expected to include malware via phishing; hacks; Comms/infrastructure disruption; site hijacks; MiTM attacks and cryptojacking at hotels; Malvertising and result manipulation.
Solving the security skills gap with automation
Security automation tools aren't going to install themselves. Organisations need to hire talented security personnel with the managerial experience to build out and train a team to deploy automation tools.
Photons and fibre: The next generation of secure communication has arrived
Photons, the building blocks of light, can be encoded with information and transported via fibre, offering a quantum leap in levels of security in data communication. Chinese lead with deployments in place.
FEATURE
Open and misconfigured servers in the cloud pervasive across all platforms
The persistence of open buckets is greater than reported. "The problem is systemic, not for just large organisations. If the big guys do it, what's happening with smaller organisations? The exact same thing!"
Cyber-threats - a quick reference table to explain and prioritise threats
Scores out of 100 are given to a range of threats covering devastation, likelihood, nuisance factor, financial impact and defendability, presented in an accessible format - a pack of Trumps playing cards.
Book review "How to Steal a Million, The memoirs of a Russian Hacker, by Sergey Pavlovich
What can we learn from reading about the exploits of a successful Russian cyber-criminal, and are there lessons we can implement?
"We're building systems that are beyond our intellectual means to control"
New forms of algorithm can rewrite bits of their own code, making their inner workings unknowable to their human creators, hence new controls need to be created now, before mass-deployment of 'genetic AI.'
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?
Brought to you in partnership with Mimecast
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.
Brought to you in partnership with Cofense
