The government has finalised a series of new cyber security rules and a code of practice for communications services providers (CSPs) that will set out specific actions on how they can fulfil their new legal obligations under the Telecommunications (Security) Act, which became law in November 2021. Described by the government as among the […]

What is an interlaced display? An interlaced display, or interlaced scan video, is when a video only changes every other row of pixels in the image at each screen refresh. The lines are scanned alternately in two interwoven lines. Interlacing is used in broadcast television to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed for each frame […]

A cyber security breach that unfolded at LastPass – a provider of credential management services – appears to have affected only the firm’s developer environment, and is unlikely to rebound on users, according to community experts, who have praised the firm for its quick and transparent response to the incident. The breach was notified […]

NetApp has announced the general availability of its Ontap storage for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to NetApp, that will help customers make savings of 20-50% in TCO by being able to scale cloud storage independently of compute. The offering is Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap (FSxN) certified and supported as a supplemental datastore […]

Gartner has predicted that by 2026, 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. According to Gartner, chief information officers (CIOs) have a pivotal role to play in assessing corporate risk and, if required, rearchitecting digital systems. The analyst warned that CIOs can […]

A large-scale phishing campaign, dubbed 0ktapus, that reeled in unsuspecting users at Cloudflare and Twilio, among others, and led to a small downstream attack against secure messaging service Signal, has been revealed to have compromised nearly 10,000 user accounts at more than 130 organisations worldwide by exploiting the brand of identity and access management […]

The developers of two newly emergent ransomware families, RedAlert and Monster, are using novel techniques to spread their attacks as widely as possible by exploiting multiple different operating systems (OSes) at the same time, according to research shared by cyber giant Kaspersky. The use of multi-platform ransomwares is nothing new as such. Indeed, Kaspersky […]

Users of home media streaming service Plex have been warned to reset their passwords immediately following a breach in which an undisclosed third party was able to make off with a user dataset that included email addresses, usernames and passwords. Service users were contacted by Plex on Wednesday 24 August after the firm discovered […]

Cyber security professionals in the UK say they are more worried about quotidian issues than the threat of having to deal with a major cyber incident as they go about their business, according to the latest State of the profession report produced by the Chartered Institute for Information Security (CIISec). The seventh annual edition […]

The recently updated LockBit 3.0 ransomware seems to have driven a substantial uptick in documented ransomware attacks in July, with incidents rising by 47% on a month-by-month basis, according to the latest monthly threat data produced by NCC Group. The operators of LockBit issued version 3.0 at the end of June under the tagline […]