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A number of hospitals have been hit by a large scale cyber attack, NHS England has confirmed. We’re aware of at least eleven Trusts that have been affected.

Introduction An internet edge router is the device which provides your network with its ‘window…

World Password Day arrives again on May 4th – an auspicious date, in so many…

Our CyberUK in Practice conference in Liverpool saw those public sector organisations who…

A trove of consumer auto loan data—some 1 million records—has been locked down after a researcher found an exposed and accessible database online. Source: Cloud Security Auto Lender Exposes Loan Data For Up To 1 Million Applicants

The malware is a dropper discovered by Kaspersky Lab as Reconyc. The dropper is a cybercrime tool used to install other malware on infected computers. IBM said the drives that were infected have a part number 01AC585; Storwize systems with serial numbers beginning with 78D2 aren’t compromised.

In its research, Flashpoint said the United States, Germany, and Ukraine appear to be the most frequently targeted countries. The most exploited sectors are education, followed by healthcare, legal, aviation, and government. Least vulnerable to these types of attacks are the financial and telecom sectors. Microsoft Windows is the most popular of the platforms targeted […]

Researchers say fileless in-memory malware attacks have become a major nuisance to businesses and have become even harder to detect and defend. Source: Malware Hard Target: Fileless Malware