Capita has been awarded a contract extension to provide services including IT to Barnet Council, as the local authority moves services back in-house. The deal to deliver back office services such as HR and finance, as well as deliver IT, could be worth up to £57m. In July, the London Borough Council announced it […]
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalogue, including CVEs in Code Aurora ACDB Audio Driver, Linux Kernel, Microsoft Windows and Trend Micro Apex One. CISA’s catalogue serves as a focal point designed for US government agencies to keep their IT systems patched […]
Controversial ride-sharing service Uber is investigating a major cyber security breach that has forced it to take a number of critical systems offline following an alleged social engineering attack on an employee by an apparent teenage hacktivist. The incident came to light late on Thursday 15 September when according to the New York Times, […]
The European Union’s (EU’s) proposed Cyber Resilience Act will form the nucleus of a worldwide standard for connected devices and software that will impact far beyond the bloc’s borders, including in the UK, according to security experts. Laid out on 15 September 2022 by the European Commission (EC) – having been first announced by […]
In a letter to customers, SAP has announced it will be raising maintenance fees by up to 3.3% due to changes in the macroeconomic environment of high inflation rates reflected across regional price indices. Due to higher energy and labour costs, as well as increasing expenses for third-party services, SAP said it had decided […]
Just a day remains for the security community to submit their nominations for the annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, which close on Friday 16 September at 5pm. This is the seventh annual running of the Unsung Heroes Awards, which are organised by Eskenzi PR, a specialist supplier of public relations services to cyber […]
Coalition, a US-headquartered pioneer of so-called active insurance is pledging to shake-up the UK market for cyber insurance as it opens a London office. Backed by a multi-year capacity agreement with Allianz Global Corporate and Speciality, Coalition’s risk appetite encompasses firms with up to £1bn turnover, although it primarily bills itself as a specialist […]
The vast majority (84%) of IT and business decision-makers in Europe say they acknowledge the importance of digital trust, but less than 10% of them have designated a staff member with responsibility for the matter, and only 19% say they measure the maturity of their digital trust practice in any meaningful way. Even more […]
Three Iranian nationals, named as Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari, have been indicted in the US over their alleged involvement in a campaign of cyber attacks targeting multiple victims in the US, UK, Israel and Iran, including operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI). The three are accused of exploiting […]
The FormBook infostealer has ended a seven-month period of dominance for the Emotet trojan-turned-botnet, becoming the most widespread observed malware in August 2022, according to Check Point’s latest Global threat index. FormBook targets Windows systems and has been around for six years. It is sold as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) product on cyber criminal forums, […]