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Hospitals responsible for treating patients from major incidents including terrorist attacks will receive £21m to beef up their cybersecurity in the wake of the WannaCry assault on NHS IT systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

Apple on Wednesday announced the establishment of its first China-based data center in an effort to improve its services in the region and comply with recently implemented regulations, but the tech giant has promised not to build any backdoors into its systems. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Week

Historically, the UK has struggled to found cybersecurity companies but that has recently started to turn change. What defines a pure startup is contentious but here we’ve decided to limit our horizon to the last five years (roughly since 2011) in an effort to sift the fresh from the established and to capture startups that truly count as ‘cyber’ and not only security.  In he past, celever engineers went to work for GCHQ - will...

The security researchers have identified a malware named SpyDealer, which affects Android smartphones running Android versions between 4.4 KitKat and 2.2 Froyo. SpyDealer abuses a popular rooting app to gain root permissions. After that, the malware gets the power to exfiltrate private data from more than 40 apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fossbytes

Drone hackers in the UK are busy at work exploiting the application security shortcomings of a major manufacturer to circumvent restrictions, including flight elevation limits. DJI says it has pushed out a firmware update to nip the problem in the bud, but one expert The Register spoke to maintains that hacking is still possible. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

In the past two weeks, two further healthcare organizations have announced that they have experienced ransomware attacks that potentially resulted in the protected health information of patients being accessed by cybercriminals. A combined 11,843 patient records were exposed in the two attacks. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hippa Journal

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it is setting up its first data centre in China, in partnership with a local internet services company, to comply with tougher cyber-security laws introduced last month. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

Guests at 14 Trump properties, including hotels in Washington, New York and Vancouver, have had their credit card information exposed, marking the third time in as many years that a months-long security breach has affected customers of the chain of luxury hotels. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Washington Post

With the number of data breaches increasing and nearly 1.4 billion data records lost or stolen last year, it’s never been more important that businesses have confidence in their cyber security solutions, and understand which technologies best protect them. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

Data breaches stain the reputations of modern-day companies both big and small. They instill doubt and reduce trust in consumers, and sometimes the consequences can affect customers for years to come. A data breach can harm both public sentiment and a company’s competitive edge in the market. Staff get fired, executives are replaced, and entire systems are overhauled to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. We analyzed the closing share prices of 24 companies, most...