US finally adopts unified approach to SolarWinds breach
Last night, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a task force dedicated to tracking the SolarWinds breach. The new Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) consists of CISA, FBI...
News week beginning 21st December
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Cyber researchers uncover end-to-end cyber-biological attack
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack has been uncovered by cyber researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Using malware, a cybercriminal could use change a short sub-string of DNA on a...
UK police forces using cloud for data storage
47% of UK police forces currently use a hybrid-cloud model to access and store data. The details emerged from a survey of UK police forces carried out by Citrix. Of the...
TechnologyOne targets UK market for expansion after 2020 growth
TechnologyOne has revealed its full-year 2020 results as it continues its transition from a legacy on-premise software vendor to a cloud vendor. Progress is good with SaaS revenue up 32% to...
Ink Aviation and Tento Health launch platform to get people flying
Ink Aviation and Tento Health have launched the Ink Digital Health Platform. It is targeted at airlines and airport operators to get people flying again. The Ink DHP will take advantage...
DoJ takes on Russian military malware team
Six members of a Russian military malware and cybercrime group have been indicted by the US Department of Justice. The indictment stops short of calling them a cyber warfare group but...
US Treasury threatens sanctions for Ransomware payments
The US Treasury has warned that ransomware payments to cybercriminals may violate sanctions. It is one of two warnings that the US issued late last week. The second came from the Financial...
Police Scotland National Centre of Excellence targets cybercrime
Police Scotland has announced plans to establish a National Centre of Excellence to deal with cybercrime. The move comes as part of its Cyber Strategy 2020. The National Centre of Excellence...
Home office under fire for 120% surge in data loss incidents
The UK Home Office recorded a 120% surge in data loss incidents over the two most recent financial years. There were 1,895 individual incidents in 2018-19, rising to 4,204 incidents in...