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Outpost24, the vulnerability, security assessment and cybersecurity exposure company, has recently revealed the appointment of Matilda Tidlund as a new board member. Tidlund brings a wealth of cybersecurity knowledge and experience from her tenure as Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Telia Company, one of the biggest multinational telecommunications and mobile network operator in the Nordics and Baltics. Mrs. Tidlund will join the existing directors, including chairman of the board from leading software investment firm Monterro,...

This week, Google has added a wave of new cybersecurity vendors to its BeyondCorp Alliance to add Zero Trust to its security model for mobile devices. With digital transformation and cloud being swiftly adopted by organisations, smartphones, tables and laptops have become integral for the everyday working individual. For mobile devices, this is extremely critical given that they have replaced more traditional devices as our main productivity tool which has meant there is now a...

Zoom has recently announced it will be making it's end-to-end encryption capabilities available to all users, which will enhance the security of both voice and video calls immensely. Zoom's head of security engineering, Max Krohn, revealed that the first of the four-phase security roll-out will start next week. Zoom has previously been criticised for only making end-to-end encryption available to paying customers. The latest capabilities will be available to free and paying users and can...

One of the biggest BBQ chain restaurants in America, Dickey's has suffered a huge breach, leaking the card details of more than 3 million customers. This information was posted on Joker's Stash, a carding and fraud forum. A cybersecurity firm called Gemini Advisory, who track financial fraud made the initial discovery of the breach. The company was made aware of this breach earlier in the week when cybercriminals began advertising the mass collection of customer...

Twitter experienced a major outage on Thursday caused by an 'inadvertent change' made to their internal systems. The outage affected users worldwide as they were unable to use the platform for over an hour, while many also received error messages. Reports of the issues began at around 21:30 GMT on Thursday night. The website's service was restored later on Thursday night, with Twitter announcing that the website should be running as normal for all users....

The fifth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards winners were revealed last night during a socially distanced virtual awards ceremony. The awards celebrate the people, not products, of the cybersecurity industry. From the best ethical hackers and cybersecurity’s rising stars to the best security awareness campaign and the coveted Godparent of Security, the categories recognise individuals and teams working hard to protect Britain from cybercrime while raising awareness of security issues.        The free event was a chance for the UK cybersecurity industry to come together, catch up with familiar faces and...

An Iranian hacking group have resurfaced just in time for the start of the new term, unleashing phishing scams on academic institutions. These attacks are aimed at both staff and students as the activity within university portals picks up again. The attacks are sent to the victim's email and contain a link to a website that is made to look official. Some links are also redirecting victims to associated apps like library portals. Once the...

A Telso survey has recently found that organizations are finding it difficult to meet current IT security and compliance regulations. The survey of 300 IT security professionals taking place between July and August 2020 discovered that organizations are having to comply to 13 different IT security and privacy regulations which results in them having to spend $3.5 million on compliance activities per year. They also found that in order to try to meet these regulations...

Popular US book store Barnes and Nobles is the latest establishment to suffer from a cyber attack. Although no financial information was stolen during the breach, the hackers could have gotten away with customer emails, addresses and phone numbers if they were provided. This incident follows on from a system failure the company reported on Monday. However, they have not said the two incidents are linked. https://www.slashgear.com/barnes-noble-hack-exposes-customers-email-purchase-history-14642679/  

New research has revealed that COVID-19 related phishing emails are still a serious threat as found by KnowBe4, a dedicated security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. The results from the Q3 2020 top-clicked phishing report, exactly half of the most clicked phishing emails contained a coronavirus reference – and this was the most popular out of all the ones tested in the KnowBe4 phishing simulator. This was closely followed by social media messages (47%)...