LATEST HEADLINES
Data commissioner fines Equifax £500,000 for US data breach affecting UK customers
Equifax Ltd is fined £500,000 by the ICO for the 2017 breach of its parent company, but the fine could have been far higher, the ICO has said.
Maersk cyber-attack 'best thing to happen in Denmark'
Denmark launches cyber-security strategy with boost to cyber-defence expenditures in the wake of Maersk hack, but cyber chief warns memories are short and ongoing awareness initiatives needed.
Researcher discovers buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's JET Database Engine
Microsoft has issued a patch for a buffer overflow vulnerability that would enable an attacker to crash Excel in operating system ranging from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
Report: Cryptomining malware detections up more than 459 percent since 2017
Detections of cryptomining malware has increased by 459 percent since last year, according to a new report released today by the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), citing statistics collected from several of its member companies.
OPINION
Zero Trust: The key to securing the API economy
With APIs now behind most mission-critical business capabilities, securing them has become paramount, making perimeter-based security models ineffective and even "negligent".
Let me in! Identity and the customer journey
By Andy Cory, Identity Management Services lead at KCOM
Your printer spies on you for the government
It's an established fact, well known to the masses, that getting a printer to connect to your computer and actually print something is one of the trickiest conundrums in the known universe.
How businesses can overcome the SaaS compliance challenge
The main reasons data stored in SaaS- repositories have a lack of visibility is discovery tools focus on scans of on-premise data centres, & SaaS applications are often procured 'ad hoc' without IT involvement.
FEATURE
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.'
National professional body for cyber sec established - combines 17 orgs - just as gov criticised for inaction
National professional body for cyber security established as DCMS consults and Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy critical of government over cyber skills gap impact on CNI.
The SC Media UK Global top 50 companies in the cyber-security market
With up to US $143 billion annual expenditure to stem losses of US $6 trillion by 2021, SC Media UK's quick reference guide looks at the cyber-security market's direction and its main players.
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.
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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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