The cost-of-living crisis is already having a major impact on spending. UK retail sales decreased by 1.6% in August 2022 versus a 0.5% forecast; banks are withdrawing mortgage offers as interest rates are expected to rise by several more percentage points; and many people are left wondering how they will afford basics like heating […]
Microsoft has criticised external security researchers at threat intelligence specialist SOCRadar, accusing them of needlessly exaggerating the scope of, and potential danger arising from, the exposure of Microsoft customer data that leaked from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage instance. Microsoft was informed about the issue on 24 September, and found that the accidental misconfiguration […]
Those in the supply chain discipline have always known how much is at stake in logistics management, but the problem has really entered the public consciousness over the last few years. Especially in the UK, where uncertainty has gone from bad to worse because of the triple whammy from Brexit, the pandemic, and political […]
On 14 September 2022, the White House released Memorandum M-22-18, which requires executive departments and agencies of the US government to ensure that all companies providing them with software and services are sufficiently protected against cyber attacks. “The Executive Order 14028, Improving the nation’s cybersecurity, was released in May 2021,” says Theresa Payton, a […]
The X-Files maxim of “Trust no one” has been encapsulated in the identity authentication model of zero-trust network access (ZTNA), where identity has to be proven and users are subject to specific constraints. However, it is debatable whether ZTNA currently goes far enough. The Covid-19 pandemic witnessed a fundamental shift in working culture, with […]
By What is a RAT (remote access Trojan)? A remote access Trojan (RAT) is a malware program that includes a back door for administrative control over the target computer. RATs are usually downloaded invisibly with a user-requested program — such as a game — or sent as an email attachment. Once the host system is […]
To create a secure tunnel from one point to another or to make resources invisible to outside threats may seem like scenarios that require magic; in reality, they just need network security. So begin the stories of VPNs, zero-trust security and software-defined perimeter (SDP), three varying elements of corporate cybersecurity with a shared goal […]
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the UK’s governance of artificial intelligence (AI), which will examine how to ensure the technology is used in an ethical and responsible way. In July 2022, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) proposed “a pro-innovation framework for regulating […]
The global cyber security skills shortage shows no signs of abating, with the estimated shortfall of security professionals growing by 700,000 or 26% in the past 12 months from 2.7 million to 3.4 million, according to the latest annual sector assessment by certification body and professional association (ISC)². In its 2022 Cybersecurity workforce study, […]
A former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worker who blew the whistle on the bank’s lax data protection practices – and to this day has thousands of sensitive customer data files under her bed – is demanding that RBS parent NatWest Group pay for her data controller fee. The whistleblower and the NatWest Group […]