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News is breaking that Preston's city council has had to defend its systems every single day against a barrage of cyber attacks. After WannaCry and NotPetya, organisations are having to increase their defences to avoid their systems being crippled. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Lancashire Post

The number of people who reported ransomware infections to US authorities has gone down last year, according to a yearly FBI Internet crime report. During 2017, the FBI says it received only 1,783 complaints regarding ransomware infections, a number far smaller than the 2,673 complaints it received in 2016, and the 2,453 complaints received in 2015. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Thousands of members of Sheffield's Credit Union have had their personal details accessed in a cyber attack. The Credit Union, which offers savings schemes and loans, has contacted its 15,000 members to inform them of the cyber attack, which happened in February but has only recently come to light. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Star

Thousands of members of Sheffield's Credit Union have had their personal details accessed in a cyber attack. The Credit Union, which offers savings schemes and loans, has contacted its 15,000 members to inform them of the cyber attack, which happened in February but has only recently come to light. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Star

Officials in Knox County, Tennessee, are trying to gather more information about a cyberattack that crashed a government website that displayed election results to the public during its primary election for local offices on Tuesday. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Huffington Post

German DDoS mitigation service Link11 claims that the number of attacks has fallen by almost two-thirds since the WebStresser 'service' was taken offline in coordinated raids last week.  That's according to figures released by the company to Bleeping Computer, which suggest that DDoS attacks have fallen by 60 per cent in just one week after the website was closed down. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computing

Tech giants Google and Microsoft have joined a chorus or cybersecurity experts urging Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to veto a bill that makes unauthorized computer access a crime punishable by up to a year in prison. The 11/2-page proposal, passed in March in the final chaotic hours of Georgia’s legislative session, would make it illegal to intentionally access a computer or network without authorization. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Insurance Journal

Former England international footballer Sol Campbell has hosted a defensive masterclass for small businesses to help them protect themselves against cybercrime. Research by Barclays has found, on average, London businesses have lost over £50,000 each as a result of cybercrime. It also found more than half of London businesses have been targeted by a scam or fraudulent activity, and 24% have had to make staff redundant in order to recoup the money lost. View full...

In the past couple of years, while we have seen a rise in businesses adopting new cyber-security policies, such measures have not been able to curb the rise of malicious malware and cyber-weapons used against healthcare. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Researchers have unearthed a fresh new set of ways attackers could potentially exploit data-leaking Spectre CPU vulnerabilities in Intel chips. German publication Heise reported that eggheads are preparing to disclose at least eight new CVE-listed vulnerability reports describing side-channel attack flaws in Chipzilla's processors. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register