Eighty-five new jobs will be created as part of the move and the Department for the Economy is providing £800,000 in funding for pre-employment training places at Belfast Met. Microsoft…
Year: 2020
Cyber Security Alliance Launches Trend Spotting Project
A new international cybersecurity alliance announced plans to put the Continents best heads together to try to envision future cybersecurity trends. The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA), a British organization…
Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft's code
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate. Microsoft has…
CAA debuts aviation cyber security assurance scheme.
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has launched a scheme, developed in partnership with security certification body Crest, that it hopes will play a key role in its strategy to enable the…
Internet of Things presents the next frontier of cyberattacks.
Today’s rapidly growing global network of the internet of things (IoT) devices brings with it new levels of convenience to the lives of everyday consumers. In late 2019, one survey…
Business disruption is now a bigger cyber-threat than theft.
A third of all reported incidents against businesses were caused by ransomware, destructive malware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to cloud-delivered endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike. The company’s…