Author: cnhadmin

The open source community has presented a 10-point plan to improve the security and resilience of its software, bringing together more than 90 executives from 37 organisations, alongside US government officials, at a summit in Washington DC. Held a year on from president Biden’s executive order on improving US cyber security, the Open Source Software…

Significant elements of the initially proposed General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme to collect patient data from general practitioners in England to help improve frontline care in the NHS has been branded “wrong” and a “mistake” by one of the UK’s most noted scientists. The GPDPR programme was heavily criticised last year…

The complexity of corporate IT systems has grown significantly in the past 10 years, first with the move from fixed on-premise systems to the cloud, and latterly with the growth of web apps and cloud-based services providing new more efficient ways of doing business. While some smaller organisations may be fully cloud-based, the vast majority…

Two years since the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the novel coronavirus remains a lure too tempting to resist for cyber criminals, who continue to press it into service in their phishing campaigns. One newly discovered malware using Covid-19 lures has been named Nerbian RAT – Nerbia being a fictional location in Miguel…

Almost 12 months after law enforcement supposedly shut down Emotet for good, the banking Trojan-cum-botnet – which reemerged at the end of 2021 – has firmly reestablished itself as the most prevalent malware in the wild, affecting 6% of organisations worldwide in the past month, according to Check Point’s latest Global threat index. While this is down…

The Anglophone Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint advisory, coinciding with the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) annual CyberUK conference, alerting IT managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers to potential supply chain cyber attacks. The joint advisory, which is backed by the national cyber bodies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK…

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has handed the UK’s internet service providers (ISPs) a new weapon in the fight against online scams through a new threat data-sharing partnership, launched on the second day of its flagship CyberUK 2022 conference in Wales. The NCSC said unlocking real-time data will enable broadband providers to instantly block…