Being a black woman in a predominantly white, male-dominated cyber security industry is “tough”, acknowledges Nicole Darden Ford, vice-president of Microsoft’s customer security officer programme.…
Police in Northern Ireland monitored the phone communications data of the BBC’s former security editor Brian Rowan in an attempt to identify his confidential sources.…
Nominations have opened for the annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, recognising the all-too-often unnoticed efforts of Britain’s most extraordinary cyber security professionals. Run by…
Four distinct compromises of open source Node Package Manager (NPM) libraries can now been confidently linked to one threat actor backed by the North Korean…
Burnout is becoming a significant problem in the cyber security sector, with an increasing number of cyber security professionals choosing to change careers. This is…
Over one billion payments have been made in the UK through open banking, with 100 billion requests sent to application programming interfaces. According to Open…
Energy regulator Ofgem has proposed changes to datacentre grid connectivity to manage capacity while prioritising what the government deems “strategically important” projects. Ofgem said the…
The emergent Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed Laundry Bear has initiated a new wave of exploitation activity abusing a Microsoft Outlook Web Access…
The Department for Education (DfE) has fallen victim to a major data breach after a threat actor known only as ExfilSquad targeted an internal helpdesk…
In July, the European Union (EU) approved SAP’s commitment to allow its customers to split their SAP software landscape into separate parts, permitting them to…
For years, post-quantum cryptography was treated as a problem for a future leadership team. Important, yes, but still far enough away that many organisations could…
Visa will cut 7% of its workforce and increase the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to “evolve” how it works, according to an internal memo…
