The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine has – in the main – been welcomed with open arms, offering as it does a route out of lockdown and an eventual return to ‘normal’ life. But, as with the pandemic itself, it raises some complex questions with the issue of vaccine passports being a hotly debated topic. […]
Security Think Tank: Vaccine passports must be secure by design
From the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, vaccination has been seen as the primary tool to escape lockdown, allow foreign travel and reopen large public events. There is also discussion about certain professions only being open to those who have immunity through vaccination. This quickly led to proposals for vaccine passports, or vaccine certificates, […]
How leveraging cloud assessments enhances Microsoft 365 for ITSPs
Microsoft 365 is growing, and so are the opportunities to add value to companies that leverage the cloud service. Last year, Microsoft reported that Office 365 has 258 million monthly active users and that Microsoft Teams grew to 75 million daily active users. For shrewd IT service providers (ITSPs), this growth presents three major opportunities […]
MP told to ditch official email over hacking fears
Member of parliament and Foreign Affairs Committee chair Tom Tugendhat has made the claim that the UK’s intelligence services unofficially told him to stop using his official parliamentary email in favour of Google’s Gmail service over concerns that the government’s own system is vulnerable to attack from foreign intelligence agents. Speaking on the BBC’s Today […]
Covid-19 left people feeling vulnerable to cyber crime
Almost half of Britons say they feel more vulnerable to cyber crime today than they did before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, nearly 15 million people across the country say they have been a victim of cyber crime in the past 12 months, each spending an average of 4.4 hours trying to resolve […]
Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs
More than 100 million connected internet of things (IoT) devices, as many as 36,000 of them physically located in the UK, are thought to be at risk from nine newly disclosed DNS vulnerabilities, discovered by Forescout Research Labs and JSOF, and collectively dubbed NAME:WRECK. The NAME:WRECK bugs affect four well-used TCP/IP stacks, FreeBSD, IPnet, Nucleus […]
EncroChat lawyers raise questions over use of PII secrecy orders on UK decryption capabilities
Court hearings into the EncroChat encrypted phone network compromised by the French Police have seen further delays, amid claims that public interest immunity notifications may have been used to withhold information. Defence lawyers said there was a “broad inference” that public interest immunity (PII) notices had been issued to prevent the disclosure of evidence, which […]
endpoint detection and response (EDR)
What is endpoint detection and response (EDR)? Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is a system to gather and analyze security threat-related information from computer workstations and other endpoints, with the goal of finding security breaches as they happen and facilitating a quick response to discovered or potential threats. The term “endpoint detection and response” only […]
Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts
As the UK marks a significant step out of lockdown on 12 April with the further relaxation of restrictions, cyber criminals exploiting the pandemic are concentrating their efforts on exploiting interest in vaccine passports and the possibility of some international leisure travel. Over the past 13 months, the cyber criminal underground has relentlessly taken advantage […]
Why some jobseekers have turned to cyber crime during the pandemic
People made unemployed and looking for work as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have been increasingly turning to cyber crime to make money easily and quickly, according to recent findings from cyber security researchers at Check Point. After studying a range of dark web and hacking forums, the researchers discovered that many people are offering […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 43
- Next Page »