PCI compliance

Overview of PCI compliance PCI compliance is adherence to the set of policies and procedures developed to protect credit, debit and cash card transactions and prevent the misuse of cardholders’ personal information.... Read more »

Huawei slams EU high-risk supplier claims as against principles of free trade

Huawei has made a strong response against comments made by the European Commission (EC) – confirming that the decisions taken by certain EU Member States to restrict or exclude technology from the... Read more »

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)

What is PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)? The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a widely accepted set of policies and procedures intended to optimize the... Read more »

Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit

A series of services disruptions experienced by users of Microsoft Azure, OneDrive and Outlook were the result of a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack conducted by a threat actor tracked... Read more »

Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options

Backup product maker Nakivo has announced new features in the version 10.9 release of its Backup & Replication software. The latest version adds ransomware malware scanning – which adds to existing capabilities... Read more »

UK to contribute up to £25m to Ukraine cyber defences

The UK is to expand the successful Ukraine Cyber Programme (UCP) with up to £25m between now and 2025 to support Ukraine’s cyber security defences, helping Kyiv’s ability to detect, respond to... Read more »

Exploitation of Barracuda ESG appliances linked to Chinese spies

Cyber security researchers at Google Cloud’s Mandiant have linked exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability existing in a limited subset of Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to a previously untracked China-nexus threat... Read more »

NCSC warns over ‘enduring’ LockBit threat

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has once again teamed up with its foreign counterparts, issuing a new joint advisory warning of the “enduring threat” posed by the LockBit ransomware gang,... Read more »

Clop begins naming alleged MOVEit victims

As it had previously threatened, the Clop cyber crime cartel has started publicly naming victims allegedly compromised via a SQL injection flaw in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer product, who have... Read more »

Ransomware-stricken Capita to run Action Fraud successor

Outsourcing giant Capita – currently facing possible regulatory investigations over its cyber security affairs after over 90 of its customers, including pension funds and well-known brands such as drinks giant Diageo and... Read more »