Cyber warfare and digital defence will be the recipients of a £1bn-plus investment over the coming years to create a Digital Targeting Web (DTW) for frontline troops and a Cyber and Electromagnetic Command that will oversee cyber operations for defence, the government announced as it released its long-awaited strategic defence review (SDR). Much of the…
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The European Union’s landmark cyber security bill NIS2 is just months away from coming into force. With a compliance deadline of 17 October, the law aims to improve the bloc’s ability to fight rising levels of cyber crime by ensuring all member states follow the same cyber security rules and procedures. Under this directive, each EU member…
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Over the first seven-and-a-half months of 2024, the number of newly-disclosed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) soared 30% year-on-year from 17,114 to 22,254, according to data published by Qualys researchers. However, out of this huge number of flaws, barely a hundredth – 204 or 0.9% – were weaponised by threat actors, said Qualys, the majority…
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Foreign diplomatic missions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Ukraine are failing to adequately safeguard staffers from basic phishing attacks, putting government personnel and national security at extreme risk, according to research looking into a repeating campaign that uses virtually identical lures, unchanged from previous years. Last year, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research team reported…
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