A skills shortage and “chaotic” handling of personal data breaches are undermining confidence in the government’s ability to protect the UK from cyber attacks, MPs have warned. The Commons Public…
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Kaspersky security researcher arrested in Russia
A cybersecurity researcher working for anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab in Russia has been arrested. Ruslan Stoyanov, a member of Kasperksy’s investigations team, was arrested in December but news of his…
A Quarter of Firms Don’t Know if They’ve Been Breached
Majority of organizations detected an attack the same day it occurred… By Phil Muncaster More than a quarter of firms have been breached in the past 12 months, but 23%…
Survey reveals annual fraud and cybercrime figures for first time
There were an estimated 3.6 million cases of fraud and two million computer misuse offences in a year, according to an official survey. The Crime Survey for England and Wales…
French privacy row over mass ID database
A French state watchdog has called for the suspension of a database that could end up holding the biometric details of 60 million people. The aim of a single “mega-database”…
DDoS attack on Dyn could have been prevented
The Online Trust Association says the recent DDoS attack that took down portions of the internet for several hours could have been “easily” avoided by improving the security of IoT…