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The US has warned that its intelligence sharing with other countries would have to be re-evaluated if those countries use Huawei to build their 5G networks. Senior US official Rob Strayer said any such role for the firm posed an "unacceptable risk" to security. It has been reported that the UK might allow the Chinese telecoms firm into the non-core parts of its 5G network. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48098362 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48098362

The Weather Channel confirmed that it fell victim to a malicious ransomware attack. On Thursday, April 18, 2019, The Weather Channel live broadcast went offline for about an hour according to The Wall Street Journal, which the company later confirmed in a Twitter statement was due to a ‘malicious software attack.’ The FBI is now investigating the ransomware attack that shut down the Weather Channel’s live program, which forced the cable channel to resort to a...

Demand for cybersecurity roles jumped over 7% in the last year, leading to increasing salaries, according to Indeed. In the wake of a number of high-profile breaches that leaked the personal information of millions, demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to grow, jumping up 7% from 2017 to 2018, according to a Wednesday report from job search site Indeed. But job seeker interest in these roles is diminishing, meaning companies often need to offer top dollar to attract and...

Widespread abuses of privacy, biometric information and artificial intelligence mean the internet is in poor health, but growing popular awareness of its problems gives some cause for hope, says the Mozillla Foundation. Increasing levels of government censorship, more widespread abuses of biometric information and unethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) to amplify systemic injustices are all making the internet a more dangerous and unhealthy place to spend time, but there are encouraging signs of growing movements seeking to...

Storing passwords in plain text and harvesting email contacts have landed the firm in hot water - again. Facebook's damage control teams must be busy these days with data scandal after scandal appearing out of the woodwork on what seems to be a monthly basis -- all of which are gaining the interest of regulators worldwide. Source: ZDNet

Dr Henry Pearson will help UK companies bid for contracts with foreign governments and central banks, Sky News understands. A former executive at BAE Systems' cybersecurity division is being drafted in by Liam Fox to aid British companies' efforts to defend foreign governments and central banks against cyberattacks. Source: Sky News

A surge in ransomware and trojans in the first three months of the year led to a massive 235% year-on-year increase in detected cyber-threats to businesses in Q1 2019, according to Malwarebytes. The security vendor’s Cybercrime tactics and techniques report for the first quarter revealed a definite shift from consumers to businesses, which is apparently hitting SMBs with fewer IT resources particularly hard. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

The U.K.’s cybersecurity agency said it won’t automatically share information about data breaches with the country’s data privacy regulator. The decision, which the National Cyber Security Centre and the Information Commissioner’s Office jointly announced Thursday, is designed to prevent new data privacy laws from having a chilling effect on businesses’ willingness to share information about cyber-attacks with the government. Source: Bloomberg

The cyber security skills shortage is hampering Internet of Things development, according to new research from Experis. Cyber security and IoT — the two should go hand in hand. But, UK businesses are struggling to find the right blend of security skills to harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). This is according to the latest Experis Industry Insiders report, which examines how the growth of IoT is impacting the cyber security jobs market. Source: Information...

Two weeks and no sign of a proper solution, Avast and McAfee affected, too. Updated Unlucky Sophos antivirus users face a dilemma: either uninstall the software, or install April's Windows security fixes. That's because having both in place at the same time will bork their machines. Source: The Register