A report released National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber attacks over the next 20 years. The UK was hit by over 40 million cyber attacks in 2011 ...
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Cyber attacks in the UK cost the country up to 27bn each year. A report by the National Audit Office warned that the IT skills shortage in Britain could make it vulnerable against cyber attacks for the next 20 years. The UK suffered ...
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The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
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President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Tuesday, could significantly expand the list of companies categorized as part of U.S. critical infrastructure sector, security experts said Wednesday. The executive order ...
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Any bank, hospital or energy provider that suffers a cyber-attack would have to inform regulators under new EU proposals announced today. Launched in Brussels by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes, ...
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The UK's critical infrastructure is open to cyber-attacks because of a lack of experts able to thwart threats, warns a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). One year on: The UK Cyber Security Strategy UK military unprepared for ...
Media organisations and journalists are coming under increasingly regular cyber-attacks, with hacking being used as a tool to censor the press. "We have seen distributed denial of service attacks against individual journalists and against ...
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Children as young as 11 years old are developing malicious code to steal personal information from online gamers, according to antivirus software provider AVG. The Q4 2012 Community Powered Threat Report reveals some schoolchildren have ...
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Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
Adobe has been forced to investigate reports of a zero-day security flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software that leaves users vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The exploit was discovered by researchers at network security firm FireEye, who ...
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A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
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As the Senate prepares to take another stab at passing a comprehensive cyber security bill, a new report shows the number of cyber attacks growing dramatically from China. China has accounted for the largest percentage of attacks since ...
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According to a new data breach report from Verizon, authentication attacks and “hacktivism” will continue to pose a threat to organisations in 2013. The newly released Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report noted that while ...
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Iran's growing cyber capabilities are a "force to be reckoned with", a senior United States Air Force officer has warned. General William Shelton, commander of the US Air Force Space Command, made the comment to reporters at a Defense ...
A cyber espionage network has been allowed to flourish in Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics and Central Asian countries since 2007, security firm Kaspersky Lab reported this week. The group, called Red October, has been stealing ...
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