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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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