Lorca accelerator enlists startups in fight against Covid-19 cyber crime
The tech accelerator Lorca is enlisting a new cohort of startups to tackle security challenges linked to the coronavirus, as the global pandemic triggers a surge in cyber crime. Business leaders and...
View ArticleWhy the FBI’s fitness app probably wasn’t made to spy on you
This week, the FBI had a message for Americans cooped-up in quarantine. It decided to jump on the home fitness bandwagon to promote its app, the imaginatively named “FBI’s Physical Fitness Test App”,...
View ArticleUS closer to cutting off Huawei’s global chip supply
Senior officials in the Trump administration agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to Huawei Technologies, according to reporting by Reuters. The proposal, which was reportedly...
View ArticleHow Covid-19 is reshaping the threat landscape
Covid-19 has created shutdowns and major disruptions in employee working styles and supply chains across all sectors. One of the most critical issues is cyber security due to increased cyber attack...
View ArticleNew MI5 director wants to tap UK tech sector for AI expertise
MI5’s newly appointed director general, Ken McCallum, has signalled an interest in working more closely with the private sector in harnessing artificial intelligence to help combat hostile state and...
View ArticleHow Zoom plans to fix its reputation in 90 days
In response to damaging public scrutiny of its privacy and security policies, video collaboration platform vendor Zoom has unveiled a 90-day plan to address these issues. The company has immediately...
View ArticleHow will the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app work and when will it go live?
The NHS is in the process of rolling out an app that will trace who people have been in contact with, and alert them of the need to self-isolate if they have been in proximity to someone infected with...
View ArticleUK government won’t use NSO Group coronavirus tracking technology
Yesterday, a flurry of publications reported that NSO Group – the Israeli company whose spyware was allegedly used by Saudi Arabia to spy on the journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was murdered – was...
View ArticleFormer GCHQ official on state-sponsored cyber attacks – video
In recent years, security experts have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of state-sponsored cyber attacks. Mike Beck, a former government intelligence official who now leads threat analysis at...
View ArticleWhy cities are partnering with AI to fight back against ransomware
New Orleans. Johannesburg. Redcar & Cleveland. Three very different places, all unified by one experience – ransomware. In the past six months, these three municipalities have joined the growing...
View ArticleAs coronavirus patient numbers rise, how vulnerable is the NHS to cyber attacks?
In May 2017, the NHS experienced a “critical incident” not dissimilar to the crisis currently unfolding in hospitals across the country. As doctors and nurses struggled to meet the demand on their...
View ArticleWhatsApp’s spyware lawsuit against NSO Group could change cyber espionage...
Almost six months after it was served with a lawsuit by WhatsApp, the controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group took its first substantive action in relation to the court case last week – it...
View ArticleMPs to grill execs over Chinese “bid to take control” of Imagination...
MPs have summoned Imagination Technologies executives before parliament following reports that the UK government was forced to block efforts by Beijing to take control of the company’s board. Canyon...
View ArticleUS agencies warn North Korea hacking poses threat to global finance
US government officials have today issued an advisory warning about the threat of North Korea’s hacking operations to the global banking and finance industry. For reasons not entirely clear, the...
View ArticleEuropean coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy community
The European Commission has called for a pan-European approach to contact tracing apps that track the spread of coronavirus across borders. But what form such technology could take has stoked fierce...
View ArticlePhishing campaign targets NHSX contact tracing app launch
A phishing campaign that sought to exploit the news of the NHS launching a coronavirus contact tracing app was shut down at the end of last week after targeting 21,000 email users. The email’s subject...
View ArticlePEPP-PT vs DP-3T: The coronavirus contact-tracing privacy debate kicks up...
A stark schism in the approach towards coronavirus contact-tracing apps is continuing to divide Europe. On one side of the divide is a consortium of academics and business stakeholders converging under...
View ArticleNCSC asks public to report coronavirus-related cyber scams
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a campaign in response to the tidal wave of cyber scams and attacks exploiting fears of coronavirus, and is asking the public to report any...
View ArticleSeven in ten global Covid-19 contact tracing apps run on a centralised model
Among the coronavirus contact-tracing apps for which the data model is known, 70 per cent operate on a centralised system globally. This means that the location or proximity tracing data processed by...
View ArticleUK government plans to grant phone-hacking powers to the Pensions Regulator...
UK ministers want to extend the Investigatory Powers Act, better known as the Snooper’s Charter, even further, according to draft legislation that would gift phone-hacking and web-history combing...
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