Category: Industry News

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
• Industry News

A French regulator said the sites used cookies without prior consent and did not provide people with enough information on their use. Google was fined €100 million while an Amazon subsidiary was fined €35 million. Read here.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. Read via Reuters UK.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of countermeasures with this blog post to enable the broader security community to […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it has been hit by a cyber-attack. The agency is currently working on approval of two Covid-19 vaccines, which it expects to conclude within weeks. Read via BBC News.

• by Ellie Hurst
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US cybersecurity firm FireEye says it has recently been attacked by a “highly sophisticated threat actor”, believing the hacking was state-sponsored. In a blog, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said company tools used for testing customers’ security had been stolen. “The attacker primarily sought information related to certain government customers,” he wrote.  Read this story and analysis by […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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Universities and colleges around the world are being targeted by a new phishing campaign, according to fresh research published by RiskIQ.   Among the educational establishments to be hit by the Shadow Academy campaign are Louisiana State University (LSU) in the United States and Oxford, Brighton, and Wolverhampton Universities in the United Kingdom.

• by Ellie Hurst
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“Watchdog lacks teeth: 68 per cent of fines issued since January 2019 haven’t been paid” Read story by Dev Kundaliya in Computing

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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UK Members of Parliament (MPs) have been targeted by a 60% year-on-year increase in cyber-attacks so far in 2020, according to new data from Parliament Street.   Read via InfoSecurityMag.

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Manchester United have been hit by a “sophisticated” cyber attack. The club, who host West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford on Saturday, say they are confident there has not been a breach of personal data of fans. read via BBCNews. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The National Cyber Force’s existence has been publicly confirmed after months of speculation and a decade after the UK first began offensive cyber-operations. Read via BBCNews.