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Major life-threatening cyber attacks on UK ‘in little doubt’
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published its second annual review, revealing it has prevented Britain falling victim to nearly 1,200 cyber attacks in the past two years. It... more
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A new wave of cybercrime: Hackers target cloud services direct
A Chinese hacking and cybercrime group nicknamed “Red Apollo” last year launched one of the largest ever sustained global cyber espionage campaigns. Rather than attacking companies directly, it targeted cloud... more
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Regulation within cryptocurrency markets
According to Reuters: “Japan’s financial regulator said on Friday it had ordered all cyrptocurrency exchanges to submit a report on their system risk management, following the hacking of over half a billion dollars of digital money from Coincheck.” Whilst the whole premise of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies revolves around it being essentially unhackable, the exchanges [...]
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Symantec annual Internet Security Threat Report
In the latest Symantec annual Internet Security Threat Report, Cyber attackers revealed new levels of ambition in 2016, a year marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists, overt attempts to disrupt the US electoral process by state-sponsored groups, and some of the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on record powered [...]
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Security report identifies top cyber threats of 2017
With recent large-scale cyber attacks signalling a growing front in destructive threats and business impact, a new midyear report on cyber threats from iDefense, part of Accenture Security, reveals how threat actors are continuing to evolve their ability to avoid detection. Based on in-depth analysis, the report anticipates a growth in the number of cyber [...]
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