Category: Network security

December 7, 2023

As the year comes to an end, it’s time to look into the crystal ball. Here is my list of the top four cyber security issues for 2024. Generative AI For cyber defenders, AI will increasingly be used to identify […]

December 6, 2023

Cisco’s executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle. Speaking […]

December 5, 2023

The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years. The report, appearing in The Guardian, claimed that the controversial complex was hacked […]

December 4, 2023

Sophos DNS Protection is an exciting new web protection service now available for early access that will be provided at no extra charge to all Xstream Protection Sophos Firewall customers when it launches early next year. We need your help […]

December 4, 2023

A cybersecurity budget is an allocation of resources, both financial and otherwise, dedicated to protecting an organization’s digital assets from cyber threats. This includes funds for security software, hardware, training, and personnel. A well-structured cybersecurity budget ensures that an organization […]

November 30, 2023

A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may therefore be worthy of the same bans that prevent stateside adoption of other tech. […]

November 27, 2023

AWS Kill Switch is an open-source incident response tool for quickly locking down AWS accounts and IAM roles during a security incident. The solution includes a Lambda function and proof of concept client. You can either adopt this client or […]

November 27, 2023

Trellix announced its generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities, built on Amazon Bedrock and supported by Trellix Advanced Research Center. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service from AWS making foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies accessible via an API […]

November 22, 2023

Microsoft’s bug bounty program celebrated its tenth birthday this year, and has paid out $63 million to security researchers in that first decade – with $60 million awarded to bug hunters in the past five years alone, according to Redmond. […]

November 14, 2023

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has once again sounded its concern over the rising threat level to the nation’s critical national infrastructure (CNI). In its annual review published at midnight Monday, it admitted that the level of cybersecurity […]

November 7, 2023

America’s immigration cops have pushed back against an official probe that concluded their lax mobile device security potentially put sensitive government information at risk of being stolen by foreign snoops. Between April 27 and August 17, the US Department of […]

November 7, 2023

The UK government has set in train plans to introduce legislation requiring tech companies to let it know when they plan to introduce new security technologies and could potentially force them to disable when required. The measures were announced just […]

November 6, 2023

Organisations in multiple industries often face risks which can severely impact their operational resilience. Cyber criminals like to use ransomware and vulnerable third-party connections to hijack operational technology (OT) systems which can stop production in manufacturing environments, for example. These […]

November 3, 2023

Microsoft has made fresh commitments to harden the security of its software and cloud services after a year in which numerous members of the global infosec community criticized the company’s tech defenses. Brad Smith, Microsoft president, pointed to significant technological […]

November 1, 2023

Cyberattacks on industrial control systems are becoming more common, and there isn’t likely to be a let up any time soon. The fallout from those attacks can be severe given the potential physical impact – outages and shutdowns in manufacturing […]

October 27, 2023

Consumers are ready for the next wave of payment technology, including deployment of AI-driven biometrics to verify identity in digital-first account opening processes, according to Entrust. The key to future payment solutions 63% of respondents indicated that they are comfortable […]

October 25, 2023

The global cybersecurity landscape is a minefield, with new threats emerging all the time. This makes it increasingly difficult for businesses to protect themselves and their supply chains from cyberattacks. One way to mitigate supply chain risk is to implement […]

October 23, 2023

Microsoft is opening up the early access program for its flagship cybersecurity AI product, which marks the inevitable folding in of Copilot into its infosec suite. First teased in March, Security Copilot is embedded within the Microsoft 365 Defender XDR […]

October 20, 2023

The financial constraints many smaller organizations face often cast shadows on their ability to fortify defenses. In this Help Net Security interview, Brent Deterding, CISO at Afni, delves into the realities and myths surrounding the cybersecurity poverty line, exploring the […]

October 19, 2023

Organisations that fail to adequately address the potential vulnerabilities that internal employees sometimes encounter when developing an IT security strategy are exposing themselves to potentially catastrophic dangers, infosec experts have warned. Users are inevitably the first line of defense in […]