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Only 7% of UK Firms Regularly Train Employees to Spot Phishing Emails
over 5 years agoAs many as 54 percent of organisations in the UK have reported an increase in email-based phishing attacks launched by cyber-criminals, with such attacks being launched across the entire organisational hierarchy from the C-suite, the finance department, HR staff members, to even trusted third-party vendors. Email has, over the years, become an important vector for cyber-c...
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Decade-old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices
over 5 years agoSerious error in the wireless protocol also lets hackers tamper with data. A large number of device makers is patching a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification that allows attackers to intercept and tamper with data exchanged wirelessly. People who use Bluetooth to connect smartphones, computers, or other security-sensitive devices should make sure they inst...
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Building Nation-Level Defences to Fight Cyber Crime
over 5 years agoBT's Mark Hughes argues that nation states should act now to put in place cyber defences to protect themselves from the most advanced threats ever seen.We’re at cyber warThe worldwide WannaCry and NotPeyta ransomware attacks of 2017, and the growing levels of malware-related data breaches in 2018, are stark reminders of the increasingly dangerous and fast-developing world of...
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Search Begins for UK’s Cyber Security Unsung Heroes
over 5 years agoThe Security Serious cyber awareness campaign has opened nominations for the third annual cyber security Unsung Heroes awardsNominations are open for the 2018 Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, aimed at recognising the people on the front line of cyber threats, saving companies from financial and reputational harm, particularly those who deserve recognition for going abo...
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Bugs in Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack
over 5 years agoResearchers found 20 flaws in Samsung’s SmartThings Hub controller – opening up supported third-party smart home devices to attack. Researchers found 20 vulnerabilities in Samsung’s SmartThings Hub, allowing attackers to control smart locks, remotely monitor the home via connected cameras and perform other alarming functions. Cisco Talos researchers, who publishe...
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Dixons Carphone: Yeah, so, about that hack we said hit 1.2m records? Multiply that by 8.3
over 5 years agoRetailer says probe found 10m records hit – but no evidence of fraudDixons Carphone today admitted that the data breach it discovered last month affected nine times as many people as first believed.The retailer 'fessed up to the hack in June this year, saying that it had involved 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records.However, in a statement issued t...
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Misery for Holidaymakers after Cyberattack on Agent
over 5 years agoBritish holidaymakers saw their travel plans ruined after flights were cancelled in an alleged cyberattack.Flight Office, an online travel agent based in Slough, is said to have had its internal systems hacked late last month, leading to air tickets being cancelled. Passengers who were due to travel say the travel agent made no attempt to contact them or inform them about th...
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Pentagon Reveals "Do Not Buy" Software List
over 5 years agoThe security stand-off between the United States and Russia and China is set to intensify after the Pentagon revealed it has been developing a “do not buy” list of software originating from the two hostile nations. The Defense Department’s acquisitions boss, Ellen Lord, told reporters that the list was begun six months ago in concert with US intelligence agencies. As t...
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Malvertising Campaign Delivers Millions of Bad Ads
over 5 years agoBy using the HiBids advertising platform, cyber-criminals have been delivering malicious advertisements to millions of victims worldwide in a large-scale malvertising and banking Trojan campaign, according to researchers at Check Point. These malicious ads can infect the PC or mobile device of the person viewing the ads with malware, such as a crypto-miner, ransomware or ...
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Tech firm China Unicom confidently enters Africa
over 5 years agoGlobal ICT and connectivity services provider China Unicom has officially entered the African telecoms space and set up operations in South Africa. The company hosted a launch ceremony in Johannesburg last week and has confirmed its focus on connectivity and ICT services incorporating cloud computing and the datacentre. While a statement issued to the media referenced ...
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China Telecom to host Apple’s China iCloud until 2020
over 5 years agoState-imposed hoster GCBD will use China Telecom servers till Apple can build a new Ghuizhou data centerGuizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co (GCBD), which recently took over the operation of Apple’s iCloud service in China, has announced that it will be using China Telecom’s cloud storage service.Data Privacy ConcernsThe announcement triggered fresh consternation that the Chin...
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US operators Q2 2018: Verizon does a bit better than AT&T
over 5 years agoBoth giant US operators announced their Q2 2018 numbers recently with Verizon exceeding expectations but AT&T not so much. Verizon managed higher revenues and profits than analysts were expecting and also beat expectations with 398,000 postpaid smartphone net adds. AT&T’s revenues, meanwhile, were a bit below what the street anticipated, but earnings per share were better...
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Data Centre Upgrades Help SCC Boost Sales And Profits For The Year
over 5 years agoThe company’s operations are growing well in France, Vietnam, Spain and Romania, but the UK unit’s showing was particularly eye-catching in both the public and private sectors, as improved data centre facilities helped to keep and generate new work. Pan-European IT services firm SCC saw its sales and profits boosted by investment in its UK data centres. Total company reve...
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One pan European data center platform
over 5 years agoNTT Communications acquires 100% of Gyron and will integrate it with e-shelter Significant move creates a pan European platform, in first step to align its data center businesses London, UK – July 25, 2018 – e-shelter and Gyron, leading data center providers in Europe, and their parent company NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the information and communications...
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Cisco invests $100m into UK AI sector
over 5 years agoNetworking giant will also partner with UCL to develop new AI research centre.In an effort to help drive digital innovation in the UK, Cisco has announced a $100m investment in the country's growing AI scene.The networking giant will partner with University College London (UCL) to open one of the world's largest research centres for AI which will house over 200 UCL academics...
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The impact of AI on data centres
over 5 years agoBefore we start, let's get pedantic: at this point in time artificial intelligence is a purely theoretical concept. True AI, a sentient computer capable of initiative and human interaction, remains within the realm of science fiction. The AI research field is full of conflicting ideas, and it’s not clear whether we can actually build a machine that can replicate the inner wo...
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None of Google's 85,000 employees have been successfully phished in over a year — and it's because of a simple $20 product anyone can use
over 5 years agoGoogle told Business Insider that none of its employees had been successfully phished since it started requiring them to use security keys to log in. Phishing, or using misleading emails to steal passwords, is one of the most common ways people get hacked. Google attributes its success to products called security keys, or USB devices that you need in addition to a pas...
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British Airways asked customers to post personal information on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
over 5 years agoComplaining about airlines on Twitter is a universal pastime for disgruntled travelers, and yet somehow British Airways has managed to turn the activity into a data privacy debacle of its own doing. Security researcher and PhD student Mustafa Al-Bassam discovered yesterday that the airline’s social media team was demanding customers post a trove of personal information publi...
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No big deal... Kremlin hackers 'jumped air-gapped networks' to pwn US power utilities
over 5 years agoThe US Department of Homeland Security is once again accusing Russian government hackers of penetrating America's critical infrastructure. Uncle Sam's finest reckon Moscow's agents managed to infiltrate computers networks within US electric utilities – to the point where the miscreants could have virtually pressed the off switch in control rooms, yanked the plug on the Ya...
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Leaky Backup Spills 157 GB of Automaker Secrets
over 5 years agoFord, Toyota, GM and Tesla among car companies impacted by leaky backup service used by third-party firm. An insecure backup protocol used by robotics firm Level One is to blame for leaking 157 gigabytes of sensitive data belonging major automakers, including Ford, Tesla and Toyota. The data included 10 years of assembly-line schematics and control settings for r...
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