Keep up to date with the latest cyber-security news and updates from around the world.
ICO website still down after crypto-mining hack
12th February 2018 News
Subresource Integrity wasn't turned on
Over 4,000 websites - including a large number of UK Government and NHS websites - were compromised after a hack on a popular accessibility plugin.
Business Gateway publishes bad cyber security advice
2nd February 2018 News
Poor advice for Scottish businesses
Scotland's business support network Business Gateway recommends "changing passwords regularly" - advice which was discredited in back in 2015.
DNS hijack leads to theft of $400,000 in cryptocurrency
15th January 2018 News
BlackWallet.co DNS hijacked to steal Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency
Hackers once again target DNS servers in another get-rich-quick cryptocurrency scam-o-rama.
Cyber incidents for 2017 show Ransomware affect
13th January 2018 News
39% of cyber breaches from malware and phishing
In 2017, the ICO changed the way cyber incidents were reported to a more relevant format.
Leicester City Council data breach
13th January 2018 News
Hundreds, possibly thousands of vulnerable children at risk
Leicester City Council inadvertently disclosed details of "hundreds, potentially thousands" of vulnerable people.
Full threat of Intel / AMD / ARM vulnerabilities coming clear
3rd January 2018 News
Billions of devices at risk
This is not a drill. The sky isn't falling yet, but two new attack vectors have been been found and almost every processor made since 1995 is affected.
Serious Intel flaw found
2nd January 2018 News
Affects processors going back a decade
This is the big one. A performance feature inside Intel silicon could be exploited to read memory from other processes.
