Cybercrime

Businesses that operate online should be working to ensure operational resilience, while the financial sector should focus more on collaboration, says professional services firm KPMG

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252439708/No-business-safe-from-cyber-attack-says-KPMG

Britain’s spy agencies cannot offer “absolute protection” against Russian cyber-attacks and are instead focused on preventing assaults that would “most impact on our way of life”, in the wake of the Salisbury poisoning, GCHQ is warning.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/21/gchq-warns-public-absolute-protection-not-possible-arranges/

Government is urging UK organisations to defend against cybercrime, as newly released figures show that large numbers of businesses and charities suffered at least one cyber-attack in the past year

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252439890/Government-urges-UK-businesses-to-beef-up-cyber-crime-defences

Studying how online users react to attacks in of itself is not going to solve the phishing epidemic.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-prevent-phishing-by-studying-the-psychology-behind-digital-fraud/

Cyber-attackers are turning to tools that automate the process of finding and hijacking vulnerable servers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43788337

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are costing enterprises up to £35,000 per attack in lost business and productivity plus mitigation costs, but lost revenue is considered to be only the fourth most damaging consequence of this type of cyber attack

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252439254/DDoS-attacks-cost-up-to-35000

You may have seen or heard about the recent advisory on Russian state-sponsored cyber actors targeting network infrastructure devices.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/malicious-russian-cyber-activity-what-does-it-mean-small-organisations

The security community has welcomed the UK government announcement of funding to help Commonwealth countries strengthen their cyber security capabilities

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252439481/UK-Commonwealth-cyber-security-funding-welcomed

The cyber threat to business has never been greater, so the National Cyber Security Centre is urging UK companies to ensure they have implemented all the basic, best-practice cyber security controls and processes

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252439079/UK-businesses-urged-to-ensure-they-do-cyber-security-basics

The NCSC, FBI and DHS have issued a joint Technical Alert about malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian Government.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/joint-us-uk-statement-malicious-cyber-activity-carried-out-russian-government