Cyber accreditation to improve legal standing of security pros

The Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) and the College of Policing (CoP) have marked the independent launch of the Institute of Cyber Digital Investigations Professionals (ICDIP), a professional... Read more »

Securing the UK’s emerging smart cities

Emerging technologies are changing the way we think about our cities. From ultrafast 5G and gigabit broadband to internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors, digital innovation is sparking... Read more »

Reddit enlists HackerOne to run public bug bounty programme

Online community platform Reddit is to launch a public-facing bug bounty programme through ethical hacking specialists HackerOne, after running a successful three-year private programme. Throughout its history, Reddit has... Read more »

Government urged to add scam protections to Online Safety Bill

A coalition of organisations representing consumers, civil society and business is urging the government to include protections from online cyber scams in the Online Safety Bill, warning that Westminster’s... Read more »

Scammers accidentally reveal fake Amazon review data

An opsec-illiterate scammer has accidentally exposed more than 13 million data records via an open ElasticSearch database, relating to a large-scale fake review scam implicating independent Amazon vendors and... Read more »

Google to introduce mandatory MFA for users

Google plans to make multifactor authentication (MFA) compulsory for Google account holders to better protect them from compromise in an increasingly dangerous and sophisticated threat landscape. Announced by Mark... Read more »

HSBC blocks £249m in UK fraud with voice biometrics

HSBC said that telephone banking fraud has been reduced by 50% since the introduction of a biometric security system that authenticates customers through their voices. The bank said about... Read more »

Why ITAM can aid IT-fuelled business recovery

Over the course of the past decade, IT asset management (ITAM) has been slowly increasing its influence. Apart from the people in finance, few senior business executives lose sleep... Read more »

Dysfunctional cyber, network teams disrupt digital transformation

Digital transformation projects worth billions of pounds are being jeopardised by poor relationships between cyber security and networking teams, according to cloud security firm Netskope, which has released a... Read more »

Sophos: How timely intervention stopped a ProxyLogon attack

Cyber security researchers at Sophos have been sharing details of how they were able to cut off an ongoing cyber attack on one of their customers, which exploited the... Read more »
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