Oil giant BP is currently having a “big internal debate” about how it can lock down personal computers without losing out on flexibility for employees, as a direct result of the increasing threat of cyber attacks. Outgoing CIO ...
Cyber attacks on container ships and port infrastructure will get more sophisticated as time goes on and companies should be doing more to protect their supply chain security. Maritime and IT security companies have raised their concerns ...
Kaspersky has discovered 'Icefog', a hacking campaign that targets the supply chains of Western companies, a report by the security and anti-virus software solutions provider has revealed, as it warns about the growing threat of ...
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Two-thirds of public sector officials feel that security should play a bigger role in the government's Digital by Default reform agenda, according to research by McAfee. The research, conducted in association with specialist political ...
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The New York Times website was unavailable to its readers yesterday afternoon in the US, after a cyber attack on the organisation's web host, Melbourne IT. Twitter, which uses Melbourne IT as a domain name registrar, was also affected by ...
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The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) has launched two new schemes to help organisations obtain the relevant expertise in the event that they are subjected to a cyber-attack. CESG, the information security arm of British ...
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Wall Street played its own version of war games on Thursday, testing its defences against simulated cyber-attacks bent on taking down US stock exchanges. A total of 500 people took part in the exercise, called Quantum Dawn 2, in offices ...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry is determining how to boost the number of skilled cyber security professionals in order to combat an epidemic of cyber crime. That's according to Jon Ramsey, CTO of Dell SecureWorks, the ...
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The Chinese cyber-spies behind the widely publicised espionage campaign against?The New York Times?have added Dropbox and WordPress to their bag of spear-phishing tricks. The gang, known in security circles as the DNSCalc gang, has been ...
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Cyber criminals could face tougher penalties across the European Union under new rules adopted by the European Parliament, which include the creation of a specific offence of using botnets. The draft directive adopted by the parliament on ...
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Prison sentences for hacking and cyber crime are set to rise across Europe if a new draft directive becomes law, as the EU looks to combat cyber espionage and cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure. A draft directive set ...
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A programme of educating staff about cyber threats and updating hardware has helped Miami International Airport counter cyber threats, resulting in hack attempts dropping from a previous figure of 20,000 a day. That's what Maurice ...
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SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to ...
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Cyber-attacks have risen to the top of the list of threats for UK banks according to the Bank of England’s director of financial stability, Andrew Haldane, but understanding and management of the risk is still at an “early ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged medical device manufacturers to boost their security protection systems against cyber attacks, which could compromise the safety and privacy of patients. According to the agency's safety ...
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