The cost of the October 2020 Pysa ransomware attack on the systems of Hackney Council in London continues to mount, with the local authority spending £12.2m during the past financial year (2021-22). The figures were disclosed to community newspaper The Hackney Citizen during an annual inspection of the council’s accounts, and are understood to […]
Security researchers at WithSecure, the company formerly known as F-Secure, have published details of a potentially dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) that could expose the contents of users’ emails to a threat actor if left unmitigated. OME is used by organisations to send encrypted emails both internally and externally. It […]
Business management software supplier Advanced has revealed that a total of 16 customers in the health and social care sector had their data compromised in a ransomware attack on its systems that took place in August 2022, and has now been found to be the work of the Lockbit 3.0 cyber crime gang. The unnamed […]
Governments are in danger of turning to “magical software solutions” to fight child abuse and terrorism, rather than investing in police, social workers and teachers who can deal with the underlying causes, a Cambridge academic claims. Professor of security engineering Ross Anderson has argued in a paper that governments should view the child safety […]
Barely 18 months after an initial public offering (IPO) valued it at $3.5bn (£3.13bn), cyber security training, phishing simulation and awareness specialist KnowBe4 is to be taken private after being acquired by private equity outfit Vista Equity Partners for $4.6bn. Quietly announced on 12 October, the deal represents a 44% premium to KnowBe4’s closing […]
The UK’s cyber security community descended en masse on a central London venue on 12 October to celebrate the 2022 Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, which recognised champions of diversity and mental health in security for the first time. Set up by cyber public relations specialist Eskenzi PR seven years ago as a means […]
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the attack of a future quantum computer, which could potentially crack the security used to protect privacy in the digital systems we rely on today. Léo Ducas, senior researcher in the cryptology group at […]
What is a clean desk policy (CDP)? A clean desk policy (CDP) is a corporate directive that specifies how employees should leave their work space when they leave the office. Most CDPs require employees to clear their desks of all papers at the end of the day. In the past, implementation of a clean desk […]
Current and former staff of the Post Office, Fujitsu, the government, as well as lawyers, must face questioning in the current phase of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, insist victims. Victims are demanding that the people who were directly involved in decisions that led to the scandal, as well as […]
If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty obvious because databases, especially in busy and mission-critical environments, are subject to a lot of changes from a lot of […]