Author: cnhadmin

The latest report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed that last year, 7.1 million suspicious emails were reported to its Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS). This equates to a suspicious email being reported every five seconds in 2022, and 22,000 per day, said the NCSC. GCHQ’s centre for cyber security added that support…

JumpCloud, which offers directory-as-a-service products, has issued mandatory application programming interface (API) security key replacements, following what is believe to be an ongoing security incident. The company offers secure access from any device anywhere and can integrate corporate WiFi and VPN devices using its radius-as-a-service offering. It positions itself as a full cloud replacement for…

At this year’s RSA show, delegates were alarmed to hear of the five-year “quantum window”, that is the time that they are supposed to have to make sure that assets protected by traditional security methods can be upgraded to quantum-based security, which by then could fall into the hands of attackers. Noting this, telco Vodafone…

Social media platform Meta has launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, in the UK and US, with a concerted push to get millions of Instagram users to sign up. However, privacy concerns, potential violations of European Union (EU) law and this week’s ruling on targeted advertising by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)…

The European Court of Justice has heard legal arguments from EU member states whether electronic communications obtained by an international police operation to hack the EncroChat encrypted phone network can be lawfully used as evidence in courts in the European Union. Prosecutors from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Ireland…

HSBC has joined the BT and Toshiba commercial quantum secure metro network, connecting its global HQ in Canary Wharf and a datacentre in Berkshire. The quantum secure transmission test will involve sending data over fibre-optic cables between its global HQ in Canary Wharf and the datacentre. HSBC also hopes to use the trial to improve…

A series of damaging cyber incidents in which data was stolen or leaked from NHS organisations seems to have done little to dent public confidence in the health service’s ability to safeguard their personal healthcare data, with 59% of 2,000 respondents to a VMware study trusting the NHS to do so. However, amid increasingly pressing…