Only 40 per cent of most vulnerable likely to use NHSX contact tracing app
Amid strategic meltdown over PPE and testing, the UK government has made steady progress on at least one prong of its Covid-19 approach: the NHSX contact tracing app. The BBC reported today that the...
View ArticleWhatsApp ties NSO Group’s hacking operations to America in new court evidence
WhatsApp’s most recent court filing in its lawsuit against cyber surveillance company NSO Group claims to connect IP addresses used by the firm to servers in the US, as part of an attempt to quash NSO...
View ArticleUK infosec experts flag concern over NHSX contact tracing app
A group of UK privacy and security experts have signed an open letter setting out a number of concerns over the NHSX coronavirus contact-tracing app that is due to be released in the UK within the next...
View ArticleHow will the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app work and when will it go live?
This article is regularly updated to reflect emerging developments. The NHS has announced the imminent launch of a coronavirus tracking app that will let users know if they’ve been in close proximity...
View ArticleNSO Group rejects WhatsApp’s claims about US links in hacking case
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group rejects WhatsApp’s explosive claim that it used a California-based server to launch more than 700 attacks on the app’s users, in its latest court filing in an ongoing...
View ArticleBritish public flags more than 160,000 Covid-19 scams to NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre (an arm of GCHQ) has been flooded with more than 160,000 suspicious emails within two weeks, after putting out a call to the UK public to report any...
View ArticleWhy cyber espionage is soaring during the coronavirus crisis
On 2 March, just a week before Covid-19 was officially classified as a pandemic, employees at the World Health Organisation began receiving unusual emails. The series of messages, sent to their...
View ArticleThe NHSX tracing app source code was released but privacy fears remain
In a move designed to create the impression of radical transparency, NHSX finally released the source code for the UK’s Covid-19 tracing app last week. However, among experts, the reception was mixed....
View ArticleUK banks exposing businesses to risk of Covid-19 email fraud, says Proofpoint
Only one in five banks accredited to hand out coronavirus business loans have implemented the strictest protocols preventing cyber criminals from spoofing an organisation’s identity – leaving customers...
View ArticleNHSX tracing app: Data privacy risks are low, according to the people who...
The NHS has updated the data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for its coronavirus contact-tracing app to include a formerly redacted ‘risks’ section. It scores itself a self-congratulatory...
View ArticleThe privacy risks of the NHSX tracing app are both less and more serious than...
The concerns surrounding the UK’s “wobbly”, technologically quirky and legally dubious coronavirus contact-tracing app are manifold. But one that comes up repeatedly is that of privacy, and the...
View ArticleCyber attack knocks UK research supercomputer ARCHER out of action indefinitely
ARCHER, one of the UK’s most powerful research supercomputers, has been knocked offline indefinitely due to a “security exploitation” of its login nodes, in an attack which also affected the wider...
View ArticleVerizon’s DBIR: most cyber attacks launched by organised crime groups for...
The vast majority of cyber attacks are perpetrated by organised crime actors for financial gain, rather than nation states for espionage purposes, according to a Verizon report on data breaches that...
View Article“Highly sophisticated” EasyJet hack compromises personal data of 9 million...
Today EasyJet admitted that the personal data of nine million people had been exposed in a hack it called “highly sophisticated”. Of the nine million people affected, the company said that most had...
View ArticleUK universities each suffering a week’s downtime a year, FoIs reveal
British universities are experiencing an average of nearly a week’s unplanned network downtime a year, as a result of cyber attacks and IT failures, new research has revealed. The findings were...
View ArticleUK government struck Zoom deal just weeks before NCSC warned of risks
The UK government struck a deal with the video conferencing company Zoom just weeks before security officials warned that its platform should not be used for sensitive communications in Whitehall or...
View ArticleFacebook Shops set to face scrutiny over data security
Facebook has unveiled its plans to launch a new shopping service, connecting users with businesses around the world. Users will have the ability to browse products, message businesses to arrange...
View ArticleFrontline care demands innovative defenses
In what was a pivotal moment for healthcare security, the 2017 WannaCry attack affected over a third of NHS hospitals in the UK. The attack led to thousands of cancelled appointments, £92m in damages,...
View ArticleRed Cross calls for global unity against healthcare cyber attacks during...
The Red Cross has published a letter calling on the world’s governments to take more decisive action against cyber attacks on healthcare infrastructure during Covid-19. It urges governments to work...
View ArticleNCSC reviewing impact of US trade sanctions on Huawei amid speculation of UK ban
The government has launched a new security review of Huawei’s involvement in the UK’s telecoms infrastructure, amid reports it is planning to entirely remove the company’s equipment from British...
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