Category: General

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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Cyber has been identified by the UK government as a Tier One threat alongside terrorism, and cyber crime costs UK businesses vast sums of money every year – and that’s just the cyber crime we know about, because it is vastly under-reported. Read via Computer Weekly.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The French subsidiary of Ikea has been fined €1m (£861,000) and a former executive handed a suspended jail term over accusations that customers and employees were illegally spied on. Read via Sky News. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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Irish police will have the power to compel people to provide passwords for electronic devices when carrying out a search warrant under new legislation. Read via BBC News. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The UK’s energy sector, followed closely by retail and wholesale, business services, financial services, and governmental… Read via Computer Weekly. 

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The Russian president says accusations his country has been involved in cyber attacks against the US are “farcical” and baseless. Read via Sky News.

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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DCMS is announcing a National Data Strategy Forum to help the country seize the opportunities of data. Read in full here. 

• by Ellie Hurst
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You cannot fail to have noticed the coverage of a recent security awareness training event that has polarised opinions. (If you want to read about it in full, I will post a link at the end) Briefly, West Midlands trains, in a bid to very responsibly increase the security awareness of its employees,  tested their […]

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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UK rail network Merseyrail has confirmed a cyberattack after a ransomware gang used their email system to email employees and journalists about the attack. Merseyrail is a UK rail network that provides train service through sixty-eight stations in the Liverpool City Region in England. Read via Bleeping Computer.

• by Ellie Hurst
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Rest in peace, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A fitting tribute for Prince Philip from the BBC

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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The vast majority (86%) of critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations in the UK have experienced cyber-attacks on their operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) in the past 12 months, according to a new study by Bridewell Consulting.   Read via InfoSecurityMag.