Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials

Messages intercepted by French police during a sophisticated hacking operation into the encrypted phone network EncroChat, cannot be used in evidence, a German court has found. The Berlin Regional... Read more »

The secret to building a future-proof cyber security team

Every business is now a digital business. According to the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), 96% of UK businesses have “some form of digital exposure”, offering cyber... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Hydration, hiring, hacking – lessons in post-Covid risk

I recently spent a day in my office again after more than a year away from it. Three things stood out to me – hydration, hiring and hacking. Each offers a... Read more »

Should I be worried about PrintNightmare?

Security teams are assessing the potential for compromise through a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler after proof-of-concept (PoC) code for the bug – listed as... Read more »

NCSC joins US authorities to expose Russian brute force campaign

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alongside US partners including the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have... Read more »

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launches ransomware assessment tool

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States’ counterpart of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has added a ransomware readiness assessment (RRA) module to its Cyber Security... Read more »

Cyber espionage campaign targeted central Asian states

The governments of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have all been targeted by a Chinese-state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group, dubbed IndigoZebra, according to intelligence produced by Check Point Research... Read more »

NHS IT fraudster Barry Stannard sentenced to five years in prison

Fraudster Barry Stannard, a former IT manager from Essex, has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison after cheating the NHS and Her Majesty’s Revenue and... Read more »

Nominations open for 2021 Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards

Cyber security public relations specialist Eskenzi PR has opened nominations for the sixth edition of its now annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, scheduled to return as a face-to-face,... Read more »

Half of mobile phones sold in the UK at risk of security issues

Up to half of UK consumers buying new mobile devices, whether direct from their network provider, the device manufacturer, or through a third-party retailer, could be putting themselves at... Read more »
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