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As industrial organisations digitise their environments, this is exposing critical operational technology (OT) to security vulnerabilities, while presenting new windows of opportunity for cybercriminals. Since last year, there has been an 88% increase in OT vulnerabilities, which are used to attack critical infrastructure and expose vital systems to potentially devastating breaches. With OT systems supporting energy, water, transportation, environmental control systems and other essential industrial equipment, attacks on these vital assets can inflict severe economic...

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Bringing Light to the Dark Web

Our browsers only show us a small section of the internet. Beneath the visible sites of the internet lie a series of encrypted sites making up what you know as the Dark Web, a catch-all term for sections of the internet inaccessible without specific software. In the 1990’s, a group of researchers for the Department of Defence wanted a way for spies across the globe to communicate. They imagined an anonymised and encrypted network, an...

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Industry All-Stars Take Stage at International Cyber Expo’s Global Cyber Summit

International Cyber Expo today announced the speaker line-up for its annual Global Cyber Summit sponsored this year by Snyk, and hosted at Olympia London on the 27th and 28th of September 2022. Introduced by former CEO of NCSC, Professor Ciaran Martin CB, the Summit endeavours to be an educational platform for IT professionals, C-Level executives and board members on the issues impacting the industry; both current and emerging.   In a combination of roundtable discussions, fireside...

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MIRACL is One Cybersecurity Company to Watch in 2022

Passwords are traditional. As long as only you and the people you trust know them then, you can operate anonymously and with security on the Internet and various applications. Passwords are safe. Well not really. Not anymore.     Passwords are reused. They are successful for months, years even. Yet, the reliance on a singular method of authentication is foolhardy. If something can go wrong, it will. Eventually, a data breach reveals a password and it...

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A cyberattack, first identified last Thursday, has caused a "major" computer system outage affecting companies within the NHS, including the 111 call line. Reportedly, a number of health and care systems delivered by business software and services provider Advanced are currently experiencing major outages. Advanced has 26 NHS clients, according to Digital Health Intelligence, and they supply services to thousands of healthcare professionals. The company's Adastra software works with 85% of NHS 111 services, where...

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Cybersecurity has never been a low-stress field. The industry attracts dedicated, highly-skilled perfectionists who are all too willing to shoulder the burden of a company’s cybersecurity without complaint. Yet, increased threats of ransomware and cyberattacks are creating an anxiety filled workplace. The current technological skills gap means there is frequently too much work for too few people. Stress, working overtime, missing holidays and birthdays, it’s all too often considered ‘part of the job.’ 9 in...

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CREST, the international not-for-profit, membership body representing the global cyber security industry, in consultation with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), has launched the OWASP Verification Standard (OVS), a new quality assurance standard for the global application security industry. CREST OVS provides mobile and web app developers with greater security assurance and accredited organisations with enhanced access to the growing app development industry. CREST OVS measures an organisation’s ability to execute and deliver assessments...

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APIs attacked in 94% of companies in past year

Salt Security, the API security company, today released the Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q3 2022. In its latest edition, the bi-annual report found that 94% of survey respondents experienced security problems in production APIs in the past year, with 20% stating their organisations suffered a data breach as a result of security gaps in APIs. In addition, the report found that API attack traffic has doubled in the past 12 months. Together,...

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UK Finance

Armis, the unified asset intelligence platform, has joined the premier industry body for financial services in the UK, UK Finance, to help members tackle cybersecurity challenges stemming from managed or unmanaged connected assets in their environments. As an associate member, Armis says it will use the partnership to drive awareness of financial institutions’ risk exposures and the need for real-time visibility of every connected asset. The company hopes the partnership will help organisations prioritise immediate...

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Searchlight Security, the dark web intelligence company, has announced a new automated reporting function for their dark web monitoring solution DarkIQ. The new reporting function will help security teams and MSSPs communicate pre-attack intelligence to executives, quickly and efficiently. The DarkIQ platform is a powerful dark web monitoring solution that utilises the most comprehensive dark web dataset on the market. It is the only dark web monitoring tool that keeps track of web traffic to and...

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