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17 Jan 2025
CMS releases final ACA marketplace payment notice for 2026
By Kelsey WaddillThe 2026 updates to the ACA marketplace include calculation updates for risk adjustment, slight changes to cost-sharing reduction loading practices and more.
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17 Jan 2025
Treasury Department sanctions company tied to Salt Typhoon
By Arielle WaldmanThe sanctions were in response to significant cyberattacks by Chinese nation-state threat groups against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure in recent months.
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17 Jan 2025
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
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31 Jul 2024
API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation
By Aaron TanAkamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit
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31 Jul 2024
U.S. top science chief says federal AI R&D spending lagging
By Makenzie HollandWhile the U.S. spends billions on broader R&D efforts annually, the Office of Science and Technology Policy is advocating for increased funding for AI research.
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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft confirms DDoS attack disrupted cloud services
By Arielle WaldmanMicrosoft suffered a DDoS attack on Tuesday that caused massive outages for customers around the world.
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31 Jul 2024
Campaigners call for evidence to reform UK cyber laws
By Alex ScroxtonThe CyberUp Campaign for reform of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act launches an industry survey inviting cyber experts to share their views on how the outdated law hinders legitimate work
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTo increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
Darktrace and Veracode enhancing partner programmes
By Simon QuickeSecurity vendor responds to channel feedback and rolls out enhanced options to support collaboration and encourage skills development
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31 Jul 2024
Breach costs soar as record ransomware payment made
By Alex ScroxtonIBM publishes data on the spiralling costs of cyber attacks and data breaches, while researchers identify what appears to be the largest ransomware payment ever made
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30 Jul 2024
Researcher: CrowdStrike blunder could benefit open source
By Antone GonsalvesEnterprises with the IT talent might turn to open-source software as a backup for commercial products to mitigate damage from a CrowdStrike-like IT outage, researcher said.
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft, SecOps pros weigh kernel access post-CrowdStrike
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft will explore alternatives to direct kernel access for partners following the CrowdStrike outage. But some IT pros worry that change could do more harm than good.
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30 Jul 2024
Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people
By Bill GoodwinUK government identifies Chinese state-linked hackers as likely to have been behind attack on the Electoral Commission
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Ransomware gangs exploiting VMware ESXi flaw
By Arielle WaldmanVMware ESXi has proven to be a popular target for ransomware threat actors and a challenge for enterprises to patch.
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30 Jul 2024
Core British Library services to return for new academic year
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library’s recovery from a devastating ransomware attack that laid waste to its IT systems continues - with hopes that some of its most popular services will be running again in September
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30 Jul 2024
ADP and Khipu Networks partner to offer data protection
By Simon QuickeThe two managed service providers will work together to get data resilience options in front of more Khipu customers
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29 Jul 2024
SCC gains security recognition from Microsoft
By Simon QuickeChannel player SCC receives approval from Microsoft for its ability to provide managed detection and response services
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
By Alex ScroxtonHundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
By Alex ScroxtonThe vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
Exclusive heading back into private hands
By Simon QuickeDistributor’s board and founder back bid to usher in fresh majority shareholder
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
Researcher says deleted GitHub data can be accessed 'forever'
By Arielle WaldmanTruffle Security researcher Joe Leon warned GitHub users that deleted repository data is never actually deleted, which creates an "enormous attack vector" for threat actors.
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26 Jul 2024
BitLocker workaround may offer aid for CrowdStrike customers
By Rob WrightCrowdStrike customers grappling with blue screens of death from the recent IT outage may be able to sidestep BitLocker encryption schemes and recover their Windows systems.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike: 97% of Windows sensors back online after outage
By Alexander CulafiWhile most Windows systems are back online after last week's outage, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the vendor remains 'committed to restoring every impacted system.'
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26 Jul 2024
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
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25 Jul 2024
Split court decision on FTC noncompete ban adds uncertainty
By Makenzie HollandWhile a Texas court preliminarily decided the FTC noncompete ban isn't enforceable, a Pennsylvania court decided it is, leaving businesses without a set direction.
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25 Jul 2024
North Korean cyber APT targeting nuclear secrets
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant has upgraded the North Korean threat actor known as Andariel to APT status and warned of coordinated efforts to steal western military IP, including nuclear secrets
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25 Jul 2024
Fortune 500 stands to lose $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
By Alex ScroxtonThe largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars
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24 Jul 2024
FTC seeks to shed light on 'surveillance pricing'
By Makenzie HollandThe Federal Trade Commission's study of surveillance pricing might lead to defining what kind of consumer data can be used to affect prices of products and services.
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
KnowBe4 catches North Korean hacker posing as IT employee
By Arielle WaldmanKnowBe4 says it hired a new principal security engineer for its internal AI team, but quickly detected suspicious activity originating from the employee's workstation.
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24 Jul 2024
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
By Alex ScroxtonMimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike: Content validation bug led to global outage
By Alexander CulafiCrowdStrike said last week's global outage was caused by a bug in the Falcon platform's content validator, which missed a defective configuration update for its Windows sensor.
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update
By Caroline DonnellyEnterprises that emerged unscathed from the roll-out of the botched CrowdStrike software update are being urged to view it as a wake-up call rather than a lucky escape
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24 Jul 2024
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
By Bill GoodwinDefence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
By Alex ScroxtonA three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
By Alex ScroxtonSecure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal
By Beth PariseauDatadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Dragos: New ICS malware FrostyGoop abuses Modbus
By Alexander CulafiDragos published research Tuesday unveiling an industrial control systems-focused malware it dubbed FrostyGoop that targets Modbus to disrupt critical infrastructure.
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22 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Faulty CrowdStrike update affected 8.5M devices
By Arielle WaldmanMicrosoft says less than 1% of all Windows machines were affected by a defective CrowdStrike Falcon update on Friday, but the disruption has been widespread.
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22 Jul 2024
NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest
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22 Jul 2024
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
By Alex ScroxtonFinancially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
By Alex ScroxtonThe concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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21 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices
By Aaron TanAbout 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational
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19 Jul 2024
South Korea, Taiwan, Japan monitor EU's Digital Markets Act
By Makenzie HollandCountries including South Korea and Taiwan are taking a cautious approach to tech regulation and assessing the impact of existing laws like the EU's Digital Markets Act.
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19 Jul 2024
Defective CrowdStrike update triggers mass IT outage
By Rob WrightA faulty update for CrowdStrike's Falcon platform crashed customers' Windows systems, causing outages at airlines, government agencies and other organizations across the globe.
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
By Lis EvenstadThe Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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18 Jul 2024
Fin7 helps ransomware gangs with EDR bypass
By Arielle WaldmanSentinelOne found the Russia-based cybercriminal group is helping other threat actors, including ransomware gangs, to evade detection with a custom tool named AvNeutralizer.
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18 Jul 2024
Judge tosses most of SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds
By Rob WrightA judge dismissed many of the charges in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO, Timothy Brown, though some charges remain.
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18 Jul 2024
Amazon CISO discusses the company's cautious approach to AI
By Rob WrightAt the recent AWS re:Inforce 2024 conference, Amazon CISO CJ Moses spoke about the risks and threats associated with new AI technology and how the cloud giant addresses them.
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18 Jul 2024
Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
By Bill GoodwinFormer Durham detective will be required to give evidence to a tribunal investigating allegations that police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phones
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18 Jul 2024
Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk
By Alex ScroxtonThe normalisation of sharing self-created intimate content with others is putting great numbers of people at risk of online abuse, says Kaspersky
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18 Jul 2024
SonicWall adds cloud edge proposition for MSPs
By Simon QuickeVendor SonicWall continues to crank up the tools and services it can provide its managed service provider partner base
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18 Jul 2024
Ignition, Westcon, TD Synnex and Exclusive bolster positions
By Simon QuickeDisties add more security depth and provide increased support for partners keen to meet rising levels of customer demand
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18 Jul 2024
Netscout expands network observability for the digital edge
By Joe O’HalloranNetwork performance management firm announces business edge observability for networks, applications and user experience to mitigate risk and reduce mean time to respond
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17 Jul 2024
NullBulge threat actor targets software supply chain, AI tech
By Alexander CulafiSentinelOne published new research detailing NullBulge, an emerging ransomware actor that recently claimed to have stolen data from Disney's internal Slack channels.
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17 Jul 2024
UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting
By Alex ScroxtonIn the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill introduced in the King's Speech, the UK's new government pledges to give regulators more teeth to ensure compliance with security best practice and to mandate incident reporting
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17 Jul 2024
Hackney Council reprimanded over 2020 ransomware attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe London Borough of Hackney has been reprimanded by the ICO over a series of failures that led to a devastating cyber attack, but at the same time, the regulator praised the local authority for its response and commitment to making improvements
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17 Jul 2024
Labour government plans new laws around cyber security, data sharing and skills
By Bryan GlickThe King's Speech outlined the legislative agenda for the new Parliament, including several bills that will impact the tech community
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17 Jul 2024
How iProov is fending off deepfake fraud
By Aaron TanFacial biometrics and controlled illumination can detect liveness, verify identities and help prevent deepfake attacks
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16 Jul 2024
AI gateways emerge in response to governance concerns
By Beth PariseauEnterprise IT investment is pouring into AI, but security and governance remain major stumbling blocks to production. Enter API gateway vendors eager to assist -- and cash in.
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16 Jul 2024
Strategic Defence Review must emphasise cyber security, says industry
By Alex ScroxtonCyber security leaders say the new government's Strategic Defence Review needs to put digital security front and centre
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16 Jul 2024
Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost
By Alex ScroxtonCyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market
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16 Jul 2024
SMEs looking to MSPs to help with AI and security challenges
By Simon QuickeFirm shares research that reveals top concerns of channel’s customer base and areas where they feel most threatened
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15 Jul 2024
J.D. Vance is a Silicon Valley insider and tech policy critic
By Makenzie HollandJ.D. Vance's tech policy is likely to focus on bolstering competition with China while addressing perceived political biases amid big tech platforms like Google and Meta.
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15 Jul 2024
Experts weigh in on Snowflake database MFA features
By Alexander CulafiIn response to a wave of recent attacks on customers, Snowflake introduces new authentication offerings that enable administrators to require MFA for all user accounts.
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15 Jul 2024
NHS Trusts cancelled over 6,000 appointments after Qilin cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe two NHS Trusts most heavily impacted by the Qilin ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis have cancelled over 6,000 appointments and procedures in the past five weeks
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15 Jul 2024
How Snowflake is tackling AI challenges
By Aaron TanSnowflake’s regional leader Sanjay Deshmukh outlines how the company is helping customers to tackle the security, skills and cost challenges of AI implementations
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12 Jul 2024
AT&T breach affects 'nearly all' customers' call, text records
By Arielle WaldmanFallout from the attacks on Snowflake customers continues as AT&T is the latest victim organization to disclose a data breach stemming from a compromised cloud instance.
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12 Jul 2024
Microsoft rolls out further partner incentives and support
By Simon QuickeVendor uses inaugural digital event to outline where it’s hoping partners will focus and how it will support those efforts
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12 Jul 2024
AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach
By Alex ScroxtonHackers have stolen records of virtually every call made by AT&T's customers during a six-month period in 2022, after compromising the US telco's Snowflake data environment
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12 Jul 2024
Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain
By Alex ScroxtonConsumers are improving their awareness of the issues around digital identity security, but there are still some big issues preventing many from doing better, according to an Okta report
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11 Jul 2024
Microsoft, Google make moves amid regulators' AI scrutiny
By Esther ShittuMicrosoft is withdrawing stepping down from the OpenAI board. Google has reportedly disbanded its machine learning privacy team. Both vendors face investigations.
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11 Jul 2024
FTC, DOJ take aim at dark patterns with Adobe lawsuit
By Makenzie HollandThe FTC and DOJ's lawsuit against Adobe targets dark patterns by claiming that Adobe's allegedly difficult cancellation process traps consumers in unwanted subscriptions.
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11 Jul 2024
Ransomware gangs increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities
By Arielle WaldmanNew research from Cisco Talos highlighted three of the most popular known vulnerabilities that were exploited by ransomware gangs for initial access during 2023 and 2024.
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11 Jul 2024
MSPs confident they can fend off cyber threat
By Simon QuickeDespite the ongoing targeting of the managed service community by cyber criminals, many feel confident about their position
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11 Jul 2024
Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future
By Kim LoohiusIn only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain
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11 Jul 2024
Inside Israel’s cyber security operations
By Bill GoodwinAn emergency phone line allows cyber security analysts at the Israel Computer Emergency Response Team to map threats against national infrastructure
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10 Jul 2024
Kamala Harris might alter big tech regulation
By Makenzie HollandVice President Kamala Harris' friendliness toward the tech sector could affect President Joe Biden's regulatory efforts if she replaces him as the Democratic presidential nominee.
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10 Jul 2024
Check Point sheds light on Windows MSHTML zero-day flaw
By Alexander CulafiA Check Point Software Technologies researcher who discovered CVE-2024-38112 said the Windows spoofing vulnerability may have been exploited as far back at January 2023.
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10 Jul 2024
The security interview: Managing the ‘no’ mindset
By Cliff SaranMatt Riley, data protection and information security officer at Sharp Europe, discusses balancing cyber risks with business leaders’ goals
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09 Jul 2024
Microsoft fixes 2 zero-days in massive July Patch Tuesday
By Rob WrightMicrosoft disclosed and patched a whopping 142 vulnerabilities in a busy Patch Tuesday that included two zero-day flaws under active exploitation in the wild.
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09 Jul 2024
Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention
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09 Jul 2024
Governments issue warning on China's APT40 attacks
By Arielle WaldmanGovernment agencies say APT40 continues to pose significant risk to organizations across the globe by exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications.
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09 Jul 2024
Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks
By Alex ScroxtonChina’s APT40 is ramping up targeting of victims using vulnerable small and home office networking kit as command and control infrastructure, according to an international alert
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09 Jul 2024
Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking
By Bill GoodwinThe general director of the Israel National Cyber Directorate talks about the rise in cyber attacks and what lessons the country has gleaned to defend against hacking from foreign parties
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09 Jul 2024
Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024
By Karl FlindersAtos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship
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09 Jul 2024
Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup
By Antony AdsheadTony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data
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08 Jul 2024
Ransomware hits CDK Global, public sector targets in June
By Arielle WaldmanThe prevalent threat continued to cause disruptions last month as city halls were forced to close and auto dealerships faced downstream effects after an attack against CDK Global.
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08 Jul 2024
Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT
By Alex ScroxtonMore cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning
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05 Jul 2024
Hopes Labour will support tech, improve security and drive innovation
By Simon QuickeWith the dust settling on the election results and a fresh prime minister entering Downing Street, the tech industry is starting to share its hopes for the new government
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04 Jul 2024
SonicWall offers MSPs access to increased range of services
By Simon QuickeSecurity player arms partners with access to European-based SOC that will help them deal with EU compliance regulations
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03 Jul 2024
NCA’s Operation Morpheus targets illicit Cobalt Strike use
By Alex ScroxtonInternational law enforcement operation targets cyber criminals using the Cobalt Strike penetration testing framework for dodgy purposes
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03 Jul 2024
EU moves ahead while U.S. steps back on regulation
By Makenzie HollandThe European Commission found both Meta and Apple to be in violation of the Digital Markets Act.
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02 Jul 2024
Supreme Court rulings like Chevron hinder regulation
By Makenzie HollandThe Supreme Court's recent decisions including Chevron will limit federal agencies' regulatory power over businesses.
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02 Jul 2024
Westcon-Comstor and e92plus widen portfolios
By Simon QuickeDistributors are expanding and signing fresh relationships to get more options in front of their respective partner bases
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01 Jul 2024
Critical OpenSSH vulnerability could affect millions of servers
By Arielle WaldmanExploitation against CVE-2024-6387, which Qualys nicknamed 'regreSSHion,' could let attackers bypass security measures and gain root access to vulnerable servers.
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01 Jul 2024
Northamber expands into Ireland
By Billy MacInnesAcquisition of distributor Renaissance Contingency Services gives the firm an Irish presence
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28 Jun 2024
TeamViewer breached by Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard
By Alexander CulafiTeamViewer says a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard gained accessed to the company's corporate network via compromised employee credentials.
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28 Jun 2024
How FWD is driving its digital strategy
By Aaron TanFWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services
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28 Jun 2024
How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence
By Aaron TanRecorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence