#cybersecurity

#cybersecurity

Speaking on 3 December at the Financial Times Cyber Resilience Summit 2025, security minister Dan Jarvis said: "We've heard the criticisms about the Computer Misuse Act, and how it can leave many cyber security experts feeling constrained in the activity that they can undertake. These researchers play an important role in increasing the resilience of UK systems, and securing them from unknown vulnerabilities."

Quietly launched earlier this year, Share and Defend collates data gleaned from public reports made to the NCSC, industry threat intelligence experts, protective domain name service (PDNS) providers and takedown actions. These datasets are then shared with internet service provider (ISP) partners, which in turn filter them through their own DNS platforms to stop their customers from accessing malicious websites.

Public Wi-Fi has become an essential part of daily business life in London. From cafés and co-working spaces to hotels and trains, employees and entrepreneurs rely on wireless networks to stay connected on the move. Yet as Wi-Fi usage grows, so does the risk. Over the past five years, cybersecurity reports have consistently shown that public hotspots remain one of the easiest entry points for attackers. Business travellers, remote workers, and small companies-especially those without dedicated IT teams-are often the most exposed.

The fallout from this incident is likely to continue for months, and probably years. With car production halted for over a month and over 5,000 businesses affected, the Cyber Monitoring Centre has estimated a financial impact of £1.9bn, and likely "the most economically damaging cyber event to hit the UK". The shutdown meant that the number of cars manufactured in September 2025 was the lowest in the UK since 1952.

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who chairs NATO's Military Committee told the Financial Times that they are reassessing how they are confronting Russia 's hybrid threats which have escalated across Europe. Russia is also behind explosions and fires which includes a fire at an East London Ukrainian warehouse. In recent years hybrid attacked have intensified which includes cyber-attacks, underwater infrastructure was damaged in the Baltic Sea that all points to Russia.

In the ever-evolving cryptocurrency landscape, both investors and miners face a growing challenge-how to mine profitably while maintaining security, transparency, and sustainability. In an industry often affected by cyberattacks, energy concerns, and unreliable platforms, FutureWave Mining emerges as a forward-thinking solution. By integrating cutting-edge technology, renewable energy, and accessible cloud mining, FutureWave Mining sets a new standard for safe, sustainable, and intelligent crypto mining.

A third of UK organizations are failing to back up all of their sensitive data, hindering their ability to restore operations and ensure service continuity in the event of a breach. Almost half of those surveyed by security firm Cohesity reported not backing up all their workloads, including virtual machines, applications, and unstructured data, while 38% aren't applying consistent data categorization, backup controls, and policies globally.

The individual was believed to have been paid around $25,000 for this, which all things considered, I think, is quite low when you're risking being fired and, you know, a potential jail sentence in the aftermath of this. So these were leaked on Telegram. CrowdStrike, obviously, was made aware of this and they reacted pretty swiftly like we mentioned. That person has since been dismissed, I don't think it was too much of an issue for HR in that situation.

"The holiday season is filled with gifts, including the ones we unknowingly hand over to threat actors in the form of sharing personal information and other security mishaps that result in cyberattacks," says Nathan Wenzler, Field CISO at Optiv. "This year, consumers across the U.S. plan to spend nearly $80 billion online and in-store during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, an increase of about $20 billion compared to last year, according to a new survey conducted by Omnisend."

"It's truly astonishing that such a market-sensitive document could find its way online via official channels in advance of the Chancellor's speech," he said. "Basic compliance requirements should be in place to prevent this from happening. A complete review is required to understand how and why such a major breach occurred."

The scope, nature and extent of such impact remains under investigation by the Company and its third-party advisors, the company wrote in the statement. The incident is now contained and our services are fully operational. No encrypting malware was involved. SitusAMC said it launched an internal investigation upon becoming aware of the incident and notified federal law enforcement authorities. The company provides services across the mortgage lifecycle, including loan fulfillment, warehouse administration and securities valuations.

On 10 November, hackers gained access to a Princeton University database containing the personal information of those in the institution's community, including alumni, donors and students. In October, similar data breaches occurred at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These incidents are part of a broader trend. Over the past few years, cyberattacks have been on the rise at academic institutions around the globe.

Nobody embarks on a career in cyber security expecting an easy ride. It's widely recognised that protecting critical digital infrastructure is high-pressure and high-stakes work. For many of us, that's part of the buzz. Every day, we tackle complex challenges, address high-stakes problems, and (hopefully) make a real difference - but who will protect cyber professionals from the risk of burnout?

VPN ads are everywhere now. It feels like you can't even open YouTube or listen to a podcast without hearing that "hackers" are waiting to steal your data and that a VPN will solve everything. While VPNs can be useful, they're privacy tools, not security apps. A virtual private network can hide your traffic, but it probably won't stop you from getting hacked.

Aging digital infrastructure equipment like routers, network switches, and network-attached storage-has long posed a silent risk to organizations. In the short term, it's cheaper and easier to just leave those boxes running in a forgotten closet. But this infrastructure may have old, insecure configurations, and legacy tech is often no longer supported by vendors for software patches and other protections.

A pair of U.S. Senators say there are specific serious threats to the nation's phone networks, but the Trump administration has yet to release a relevant report about the threats. In a letter last week, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia - who is vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - asked for the report to be released, claiming it identifies serious telecommunications industry vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity company Guardio is taking aim at a fresh market born amid this flux: finding malicious code written using AI tools. The company says it has found that with AI tools, malicious actors now find it easier than ever to build scam and phishing sites as well as the infrastructure needed to run them. Now, Guardio is leveraging its experience building browser extensions and apps that scan for malicious and phishing sites.

I tried to fool my brother, sort of. Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch, without context or introduction, I played an audio clip of me-deepfake audio of my voice that I'd asked cybersecurity startup Doppel to make. Fake Me's voice sounded distressed, stilted, and just persuasive enough that he narrowed his eyes, scrunched his nose, and asked: "That's AI, right?" My extremely online brother was far from fooled, but he was unsettled.

Speaking to CBS News, Amodei said a lack of transparency about the impact of powerful AI would replay the errors of cigarette and opioid firms that failed to raise a red flag over the potential health damage of their own products. You could end up in the world of, like, the cigarette companies, or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers, and they didn't talk about them, and certainly did not prevent them, he said.

"I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

The Zero Trust security market is expected to be worth $88.8bn by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of just over 16%. And this investment is urgent: according to research, 98% of CISOs expect cyber attacks to increase over the next three years. These attacks can have huge consequences: US financial services firm Equifax incurred $1.4bn in settlements after a single vulnerability in a web application was exploited by hackers.

For a concept designed to keep teams and any organization secure, compliance training can sometimes be intimidating for leadership. Where do you start? How can you be absolutely sure you've covered every critical aspect in your compliance training courses? The last thing you want is to overlook a detail and end up facing steep fines, penalties, or even legal consequences that could cost you your job or damage your company's reputation.

Thanks to the shutdown, there have not been too many innovative government programs operating over the past few months. NASA was able to continue its latest crowdfunding challenge, which asks people to help design new tires for future moon missions, largely because that is hosted by its partner site, HeroX. But beyond that, most everything was either shuttered or running with skeleton crews.

The Government has confirmed that Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will be scrapped, with ministers claiming the move will save at least £100 million that can instead be channelled into frontline policing, artificial intelligence and cybercrime capability. The announcement forms part of a wide-reaching overhaul of policing in England and Wales aimed at raising national standards, improving performance monitoring and ending what ministers have described as a "postcode lottery" in crime outcomes.

"That text message you got about a 'stuck package' from USPS or an 'unpaid road toll'? It's not just spam. It's the calling card of a sophisticated, global scam that has swindled victims out of millions of dollars,"

The superfast evolution of technology can create a digital divide between parents and their teens. Gen X and millennials may have had their childhoods transformed by tech, but they're now parenting generations Z, Alpha and Beta who are traversing entirely different online landscapes, particularly in the world of online gaming. At the same time, cyber-attacks are increasingly in the news, with major players in an array of industries falling victim.