The UK government has lifted the lid on a previously top secret cyber programme that has been supporting Ukrainian government agencies and critical national infrastructure (CNI) operators from Russia cyber attacks for months. The Ukraine Cyber Programme was swiftly mobilised in the days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in response […]
The team behind the widely used open source cryptographic library OpenSSL has patched two vulnerabilities in the service that it had previously taken the somewhat unusual step of pre-warning security teams about. OpenSSL issued an advisory towards the end of October, saying it was preparing to patch a critical vulnerability – which would have […]
As corrections go, the cryptocurrency crash of 2022 was particularly brutal. In November 2021, the market had surged to a peak valuation of almost $3tn. By June 2022, it had lost over two-thirds as inflationary pressures and a gloomy economic outlook spooked investors. Inevitably, questions were raised about the role and function of crypto […]
Ransomware changes rapidly. At a technical level, attack infrastructure can change by the minute, operationally changing attack techniques while strategically targeting certain sectors, industries or regions at appropriate times. Access brokers work across multiple groups, operators switch botnets, and malware developers continuously refine their techniques. They borrow each other’s tactics, fall out with each […]
Three years ago, struggling with data processing, the charity hired Gerardo Del Guercio, who previously worked at the Home Office, to fix the problem. His role – solutions architect – was funded by an equity firm, which offered two years of fixed funding. This funding has enabled Prostate Cancer UK to update its end-to-end data […]
NetApp has announced BlueXP, a hybrid- and multicloud storage management platform that aims to give customers a single view of their on-premise and cloud NetApp storage, with the ability to monitor performance, migrate data between locations, and predict capacity and performance bottlenecks. The announcement came at the company’s Insight events this week. NetApp also […]
What is Basel II? Basel II is an international business standard that requires financial institutions to maintain enough cash reserves to cover risks incurred by their operations. The Basel accords are a series of recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The name for the accords is derived […]
In the City of Love in October, Chinese hardware maker Huawei laid the seduction on thick. At the Palais des Congrès in Paris, it showed European enterprises its OceanStor Dorado V6, which provides file, block and object access at a claimed reduced price compared to US competitors. A big sell is that its storage […]
Almost a third – 32% – of chief information security officers (CISOs) and decision-makers in the UK are considering quitting their current role, and a third of those think they might do so in the next six months, according to research published today by BlackFog, a supplier of anti-data exfiltration and ransomware protection services. […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provided support for 18 nationally significant ransomware attacks; removed 2.1 million cyber-enabled commodity campaigns; issued 34 million early warning alerts about attacks, compromises, vulnerabilities or open ports; and received 6.5 million reports of suspicious emails in the past 12 months – but in a year of “profound […]