Britain's failure to contain COVID-19 - despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson promising a "world-beating" effort - now includes a failed digital contact-tracing app. A new version, built to work with Apple and Google APIs, may be released by winter. Really, what's the rush?
The Web application attack landscape is evolving quickly in conjunction with the ongoing changes around application development, hosting and maintenance. Trends such as DevOps and cloud migration are forcing application security teams to investigate new ways to keep up with new vulnerabilities and to manage policies...
Apple and Google have released new APIs designed to support contact-tracing apps being developed by governments to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Already at least three U.S. states and 22 countries have expressed interest in using the APIs to build their apps.
As organizations around the world have shifted to remote working, security teams are struggling with an unprecedented amount of novel threats originating in the inbox. From stealthy impersonation attempts to domain spoofing attacks targeting concerned teleworkers, traditional security controls are proving ill-equipped...
European budget airline EasyJet says it suffered a data breach that exposed 9 million customers' personal details. While no passport details were exposed, the company's ongoing investigation has also found that attackers "accessed" a small number - just 2,208 - of customers' payment card details.
Many governments are pursuing contact-tracing apps to combat COVID-19, but such projects risk subjecting populations to invasive, long-term surveillance - as well as insufficient adoption - unless they take an open, transparent and as decentralized approach, says cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward.
As COVID-19 spread in the spring of 2020, organizations around the world have scrambled to enable a remote workforce, acting in "firefighting" mode and laser-focused on business continuity. But as the new normal settles in, digital transformation is rising as a critical - if altered - priority, and security teams need...
The stuck-at-home chronicles have fast become surreal, as remote workers face down a killer virus on the one hand and the flattening of their work and personal lives on the other. To help, many have rushed to adopt Zoom. And for many use cases - hint: not national security - it is a perfectly fine option.
Supermarket giant Morrisons is not liable for a data breach caused by a rogue employee, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled, bringing to a close the long-running case - the first in the country to have been filed by data breach victims.
The UK Public Sector DNS Service is one of the NCSC's most widely deployed Active Cyber Defence capabilities across the public sector to date. The NCSC has partnered with Government Digital Services (GDS) and Nominet to provide the Protective DNS service.
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With U.S. stock markets suffering their worst day since 1987 on Monday, most technology firms took a hit as Wall Street continues to be rattled by the COVID-19 crisis. Experts predict this will drive fresh waves of consolidation and M&A in the cybersecurity market, as well as growth in hot areas.
You already have some sort of third party security program in place - perhaps you've built a security questionnaire based on internal policies or an industry standard such as ISO or NIST. You may have even "right-sized" your questionnaire specifically for different types of supplier relationships and developed a few...
Your vendors often handle your most sensitive data. This presents new challenges as third-party risk, security, privacy, legal and IT teams struggle to vet and manage the vendors they rely on most. We'll discuss emerging vendor management trends and breakdown how risk exchanges are key to more efficient business...
If your organization does software development in-house, there are a myriad of development workflows and processes to choose from. Some organizations still implement old-school waterfall development workflows; some are agile shops. In terms of process, some have adopted DevOps, and some integrate security testing into...
The British government continues to delay deciding whether it will ban Chinese networking gear from its national 5G rollout, as the Trump administration demands. But with future trade deals on the line as the U.K. navigates its "Brexit" from the EU, Britain cannot afford to anger either Beijing or Washington.
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