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By Marcus Harvey, Sales Director EMEA at Targus We’ve all heard of travelling light but what about travelling secure? Business not doing so well? Sales down? Margins are tight? No company would want their competitors or members of the public to know any of this information, but many of us would talk about it or write confidential emails about it in public, without giving it a second thought. The fact is that ‘shoulder-surfing' or ‘visual...

The hacking group behind the DNSpionage campaign have become more choosy in their targets and have released a new form of malware to further their goals. DNSpionage, first discovered in late 2018 by Cisco Talos, utilizes fake websites and specializes in DNS tampering to redirect traffic from legitimate domains to malicious ones. The threat actors also make use of free Let's Encrypt security certificates for redirected domains. Source: ZDNet

UK employees have a worryingly casual attitude to workplace communications, underling the need for employers to take steps to counter related cyber-attack vulnerabilities. One-third of nearly 800 UK employees polled admit sending customer information using collaboration tools, a survey investigating the growth of collaboration tools in the workplace has revealed. Source: Computer Weekly

Aebi Schmidt, a European manufacturing giant with operations in the U.S., has been hit by a ransomware attack, TechCrunch has learned. The Switzerland-based maker of airport maintenance and road cleaning vehicles had operations disrupted Tuesday following the malware infection, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. Source: TechCrunch

The government has given Chinese telecoms giant Huawei the go-ahead to supply equipment for the UK 5G data network despite senior ministers warning it poses a security risk. The Daily Telegraph reports the company will help build some "non-core" parts. The plan was said to have worried the home, defence and foreign secretaries. The US also wants its allies in the "Five Eyes" intelligence grouping - the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to exclude Huawei....

Government, security firms and technology companies should be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to protecting against hacking and cyberattacks, says the UK's intelligence service. The UK could one day create a national cyber-defence system built on sharing real-time cybersecurity information between intelligence agencies and business, the head of GCHQ has said.  Source: ZDNet

Company blames February 2019 security breach on phishing email received in July 2018. Bodybuilding.com, the internet's biggest online store and online forum for fitness and bodybuilding enthusiasts, has disclosed last week a security breach that impacted its IT systems.Source: ZDNet

Briton hailed as WannaCry hero finally pleads guilty to charges of writing and distributing malware but urges security researchers to stay away from the “dark side”. British security researcher Marcus Hutchins is urging security researchers to stay on the right side of the law after pleading guilty to two charges relating to developing and distributing password-stealing malware Kronos between July 2014 and July 2015. Source: Computer Weekly

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) expects 42% of Britain online users to lose money due to fraud, according to its first UK Cyber Survey. Released over the Easter weekend (April 21, 2019), the report also found that the most-used password from global cyber breaches was "123456," with "ashley" the most-used name as a password. The global password-risk list was published to disclose passwords already known to hackers.Source: Infosecurity Magazine

April’s Microsoft Windows update has apparently been causing headaches for users who had previously installed anti-virus software from vendors such as Avast, Avira, ArcaBit, McAfee and Sophos. Users with these AV products who installed the 9 April Windows update may find that their machines become slow or unresponsive following restart, according to the "Known Issues" section of Microsoft’s Monthly Rollup update web page. Source: SC Magazine UK