Annual search for UK’s unsung cyber heroes kicks off
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…
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Amazon pins multiple open source compromises on North Korea
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…
The Security Interviews: Bronwyn Boyle, Cybermindz
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…
Open banking payments exceed one billion mark
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…
Ofgem targets datacentre builds with megawatt connection charge
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…
Laundry Bear pivots to new exploit days after Zimbra alert
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…
Department for Education suffers data breach
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…
What’s behind SAP’s change to maintenance and support?
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…
How IT leaders can start the shift to quantum-safe security
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…
Technology teams to be hit by Visa’s 7% jobs cull
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…
UK public don’t trust Fujitsu, but government does
The public still do not trust Fujitsu following its role in the Post Office scandal, according to a snap poll, but the government continues to…
Why some VMware customers pay for upgrades they never use
A growing number of VMware customers are doing something that looks contradictory on paper: renewing their VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions in full, then declining…