Cybercrime

Security flaws in Olympic app may put personal health data at risk of compromise in a man-in-the-middle attack

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252512175/Investigators-find-Beijing-2022-app-riddled-with-security-flaws

Latest monthly data reveals a significant decline in ransomware attacks at the end of 2021, but a new, emergent gang is making waves

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252512245/Ransomware-attacks-dropped-37-in-December-claims-NCC

Which? singles out Metro Bank, Virgin Money and TSB over insecure online banking processes

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252511838/Banks-accused-of-neglecting-customer-security-measures

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre joins US calls to be wary of Russian state interference in critical national infrastructure IT systems

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252511934/NCSC-sounds-alarm-over-Russia-backed-hacks

Whether by error or design is unclear, but a great many IT teams are still exposing themselves by downloading outdated, insecure versions of Apache Log4j

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252511846/Almost-half-of-Log4j-downloads-still-dangerously-exposed

Nominet Cyber managing director David Carroll reflects on the NCSC’s latest annual review amid 2021’s fast-evolving threat landscape

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/A-whole-of-society-approach-to-cyber-may-be-on-the-horizon

The intelligence services and the government have become increasingly vocal in campaigns for access to the contents of the public’s encrypted messages on Facebook, WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging services.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252511110/Top-10-crime-national-security-and-law-stories-of-2021

As the pandemic continues to affect how we work, socialise, shop and conduct business, so it has increased opportunities for digital fraud and cyber crime. Jason Lane-Sellers explores the latest LexisNexis Risk Solutions ‘Cybercrime report’

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Vulnerabilities-to-fraud-are-increasing-across-the-board

The past 12 months have seen no shortage of cyber crime incidents as ransomware gangs ran amok, with security teams seemingly powerless to do much more than watch on in shock.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252510733/Top-10-cyber-crime-stories-of-2021

As head of the National Cyber Security Centre, Lindy Cameron believes company leaders must improve preparedness and resilience by educating staff – and themselves

https://www.raconteur.net/c-suite/ncsc-advice-ransomware-cyber-threats/