Government departments have autonomy in how they comply with the new rules Tom Allen The UK government has published its first attempt at setting a minimum cyber security standard for…
Tag: phishing
Scammers abuse multilingual domain names
Cyber-criminals are abusing multilingual character sets to trick people into visiting phishing websites. The non-English characters allow scammers to create “lookalike” sites with domain names almost indistinguishable from legitimate ones.…
EU Set for New Cyber-Response Force
Phil Muncaster EU member states have agreed to develop a cyber-response force designed to combat future attacks, according to the Lithuanian government. A Declaration of Intent proposed by the Baltic…
Shipping needs cyber reporting scheme now
by Martyn Wingrove Shipping needs an anonymous reporting scheme for cyber threats and attacks to prevent the same mistakes happening time and again. All shipping companies face cyber threats, regardless of…
The biggest cybersecurity risk to US businesses is employee negligence, study says
Carmen Reinicke Hackers are no match for human error. Employee negligence is the main cause of data breaches, according to a state of the industry report by Shred-it, an information…
Oregon.Gov Email Domain Remains Blacklisted
Kacy Zurkus The state of Oregon continues efforts to resolve an email issue with the oregon.gov domain that is still preventing communication from state employees. On 19 June, Oregon Live…