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A report published by Mimecast has discovered a new type of phishing email scam targeting people's political opinions, particularly as the US election closes in. Cybercriminals have begun impersonating political organisations, mimicking their domains, slogans, and even getting people to donate to fake organisations. Mimecast researchers have discovered new website registrations under the name 'Donald Trump' but changing one letter. For example, one website was found using this name but the 'n' was changed to...

People come into cyber security from a wide range of backgrounds, but the usual image is of a core cadre of techies depicted as having progressed from being boys in bedrooms hacking into games –  but that’s not true, rather, it was only ever part of the picture, with women also involved in every step of the nascent cyber security industry. Joan D Pepin, Chief Security Officer at AuthO is a great example. She explains...

A global report by Bitdefender recently found that seven out of ten CISOs (71%) fear that cyberwarfare is an impending threat to their organisation, while more than a fifth (22%) of these CISOs confess to not having a plan in place to defend against such risks. These findings are incredibly alarming, especially after the recent global disruptions. Half of the infosecurity professionals involved in the study agreed that an increase in cyberwarfare will have a...

Facebook has removed three networks of fake accounts, suspected to be linked to Russian intelligence organisation leaking documents in the effort to meddle in the US election. Facebook has said the accounts were suspended for using fake identities as well as beaching other inauthentic behaviours. These accounts have been linked to Russian intelligence organisation in St. Petersburg that has previously been accused of interfering in the 2016 US election. According to Facebook's head of cybersecurity...

On Tuesday the UAE Head of NCSC Muhammad Al-Kuwaiti reported that the intel that Israel are sharing has helped to deter and amend any hacking attempts. For the first time the Israeli and UAE cyber chiefs, al-Kuwaiti and Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) Chief Yigal Unna, appeared at a virtual conference at Tel Aviv University. In response to a question about the effect of the Israeli-UAE cyber cooperation as a result of the normalization deals,...

Facebook has removed several accounts linked to the Philippines military and police for breaching the social media platform's government interference guidelines. A full investigation of these accounts was brought to Facebook's attention after information was brought to them by Rappler, an independent news sources in the Philipines. The operation has been linked back to those both in the Philippines and China, who aimed to mislead people about who they were and what they wanted. In...

A report by Webroot has found that more than one in five UK employees (22%) have received a COVID-19 related phishing email. The Webroot survey gathered data from 7,000 office workers worldwide and found that employees are receiving 34% more emails than they were last year. The survey also showed that business needs to remain alert in regards to security risks as governments ask employees to work from home in the wake of Covid-19. The...

Netwrix has released its 2020 Cyber Threats Report aiming to understand the different threats industry professionals experience and how they respond to them, particularly in the time of COVID-19 with more employees working from home. The report outlines how 1 in 4 organisations feel they were exposed to more threats during the pandemic than they were before. What's more, 63% reported an increase in cyber attacks and 60% saw an increase in security gaps as...

Today, (ISC)² has released the findings of their 2020 Cybersecurity Perception Study, which gives the opinions of 2,500 men and women working in cybersecurity from the UK and US. Overall, the research outlines a positive change in attitude towards working in the industry. This report comes at an important time as we close in on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, particularly with its shift to viewing cybersecurity in a more positive light. 71% of...

If you haven’t seen this video on attention, please do so, it’s just over a minute long.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/vJG698U2Mvo The video is by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, both authors of the book, ”The Invisible Gorilla,” in which they reveal the numerous ways our intuitions can deceive us.  In essence, much like we react to the video above, we realise that our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the...