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The FBI is warning the healthcare sector to step up security of its file transfer protocol servers as cybercriminals step up attacks targeting FTP servers running in anonymous mode. "The FBI is aware of criminal actors who are actively targeting FTP servers operating in 'anonymous' mode and associated with medical and dental facilities to access protected health information and personally identifiable information in order to intimidate, harass and blackmail business owners," the March 22 FBI alert says....

Apple today released iOS 10.3, watchOS 3.2 and tvOS 10.2 (14W265), the first two of all of which bring some pleasing extra functionality to iThings, But the main attraction in the new release is Apple File System, because it adds comprehensive encryption to the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple's been very shy about the Apple file system (APFS), which it revealed with little fanfare at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and doesn't even mention it in...

For most of us, Saturday morning is a time for a lie in, a leisurely brunch, or maybe taking the kids to the park. But for some it's bug-hunting time. Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google's crack Project Zero security team, was in the shower and thinking about LastPass – after finding a number of flaws in the password manager over the past week. Then he had an epiphany and "realized how to get codeexec...

Nato has announced plans to spend €3bn (£2.6bn) on upgrading its satellite and computer technology over the next three years, a senior official has said. As the alliance adapts to new types of warfare it hoped the technology will deter hackers, as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) acknowledges conflicts are increasingly fought out online rather than in the air, on land or at sea. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Independent

Even though satellite signals are vulnerable to spoofing attacks from hackers, the world's newest global navigation system, Europe's Galileo, has been operating with no way to protect civilian users from hacking attempts since its launch in December. But it is Galileo's newness that has led researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium to equip Galileo with what is believed to be the first digital security measure for a global navigation system for non-military use. View...

It is estimated North Korea has a hacker army numbered in the thousands.  The regime is becoming increasingly bold in its quest for foreign currency and is using this hacker army to attack banks around the world and steal money, lots of money.According to the New York Times, targets have included the World Bank, the European Central Bank, and big U.S. companies, including Bank of America, State Street Bank and Trust, and the Bank of...

Famous for its cuckoo clocks, Switzerland is about to get a machine so sophisticated that it will outthink the cyber-attackers targeting its equally famous banking industry. Being developed by IBM and SIX, the Financial Technology Company of Switzerland, this will be the country's first cognitive security operations centre (SOC) and will help protect the Swiss financial services industry. This will probably fly under the radar for most consumers, but a recent survey indicates that the public is...

Cybercrooks are using a bot to automate the process of breaking into and draining online gift card accounts. The software nasty, named GiftGhostBot, attempts to steal cash from money-loaded gift cards provided by a variety of retailers around the globe, according to Distil Networks. Any website – from luxury retailers to supermarkets to major coffee distributors – with gift card processing capabilities could be a target. Distil has seen this attack on almost 1,000 websites...

Royal Navy chiefs have warned of the threat from a cyber attack on warships and submarines as they begin a ten-day exercise with defence technology company Qinetiq. In an effort to boost digital warfare capabilities, the Information Warrior exercise will help the Navy prepare for attacks that it claims are as real as from traditional weapons. As well as defending from cyber-attacks, it is hoped the technology will help the Navy gather more information to...

Britain’s businesses are increasingly aware of the threat of cyber attacks, but often do not know how to combat digital crimes or how to report attacks. A total of 94pc of firms believe IT security is important, but only 56pc have a strategy in place to deal with it, according to a study from the Institute of Directors and Barclays. Although attacks are increasingly common, 40pc of the nearly 1,000 companies surveyed said that if...