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With cyber threats becoming increasingly sophisticated and targeting critical infrastructure, in this Help Net Security interview, David Ferbrache, managing director of Beyond Blue, discusses the current state of cybersecurity readiness and resilience…. Continue reading Protecting national interests: Balancing cybersecurity and operational realities
In a newly published report, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that malicious attackers are already taking advantage of artificial intelligence and that the volume and impact of threats – including ransomware – will increase in … Continue reading AI is already being used by ransomware gangs, warns NCSC
All types of cyber threat actor are already using artificial intelligence (AI) to varying degrees, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s analysts say, and predict that AI “will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of c… Continue reading AI expected to increase volume, impact of cyberattacks
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Former British cyberespionage agency employee was sentenced in a London court for attempted murder, will have to serve at least 13 years in prison.
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A joint advisory from the National Cyber Security Centre has detailed how the UK and its allies have cracked Snake, a Russian malware used by the FSB.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI, GCHQ Unite To Foil Russ… Continue reading FBI, GCHQ Unite To Foil Russian Malware Hacking Tool
Using structured, machine-readable data in defensive systems can present a significant challenge. In this Help Net Security interview, Giorgos Georgopoulos, CEO at Elemendar, discusses these challenges and how Elemendar’s application can help cyb… Continue reading Streamlining cybersecurity decision-making for analysts and CISOs
“We paid the crooks to keep things under control and make a bad thing better”… isn’t a valid excuse. Who knew? Continue reading Paying ransomware crooks won’t reduce your legal risk, warns regulator
The curtain of state secrecy which surrounds the type of government agency known primarily by initialisms is all-encompassing and long-lived, meaning that tech that is otherwise in the public domain …read more Continue reading A Secure Phone Fit For A Prime Minister
A series of Ukrainian government websites were inaccessible Wednesday after what a government official described as a “mass DDoS attack,” marking the second apparent distributed denial-of-service disruption to hit government sites there in the last eight days. The websites for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers suffered network disruptions in an incident that “appears consistent with recent DDOS attacks,” according to NetBlocks, a London-based organization that tracks internet access. DDoS attacks knock sites offline by flooding them with phony traffic. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, said the country was experiencing another DDoS attack that also targeted Ukrainian banks, the Kyiv Independent reported shortly after observers around the world began noticing the disruptions. In a subsequent message posted to Telegram Fedorov said a “mass DDoS attack” began at about 4 p.m. local […]
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