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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released its annual review of 2020. If you are unfamiliar with the NCSC, part of their mission is that they are “dedicated to making the United Kingdom the safest place in the world to live and work online.” … Continue reading Thoughts from the NCSC 2020 Annual Review
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, November 2020.
Manchester United FC remains impacted by a seemly major cyber-attack, which I covered in a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for December 2020
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about the Manchester City Billion Pound Hack, which explored cyberattacks within elite football. Now it is the turn of City big rivals Manchester United, after they reported their IT systems had been impacted by a … Continue reading The Multi-Million Pound Manchester United Hack
Suspected state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals are trying to exploit a five-month-old vulnerability in popular mobile device management software to target a range of U.K. organizations in the local government, health, logistics and legal sectors, the British government warned Monday. Organizations use the affected software to manage mobile devices from a central server, “making them a valuable target for threat actors,” the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said in a security advisory. By breaking into the mobile device management (MDM) software, snoops could selectively steal information from mobile devices communicating with the MDM server. Some of the exploitations have been successful, the NCSC said without elaborating. The NCSC did not name any foreign governments suspected to be behind the activity. It was also unclear what type of health care organizations were targeted. The NCSC did not respond to a request for comment. The advisory is part of a consistent effort by […]
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A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
London’s Hackney Borough Council has been tight-lipped about “a serious cyber-attack” which… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
London’s Hackney Borough Council has been tight-lipped about “a serious cyber-attack” which… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2020
A dire warning came from UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), advising IT administrators not to disable the update mechanism to keep Adobe Flash past its end-of-life date, set for the end of 2020. It’s been a long time coming. Adobe Flash is fin… Continue reading NCSC Warns Admins Not to Disable Updates to Keep Flash Alive in 2021
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, October 2020.
COVID-19 wasn’t the only virus seriously disrupting the start of the new UK academic year, … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, August 2020.Taking security training courses and passing certification exams are common ingredients in th… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for September 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from the UK has removed more than 300,000 URLs linked to ‘quick-get-rich’ frauds that used fake articles from personalities to trick people into sending money to cybercriminals. The use of fake articles and quo… Continue reading NCSC Blocks Large Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Investment Scam