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Key cybersecurity news, insight and features on the latest data breaches, threat actors, cyberattacks and beyond from around the world. Cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing the world of technology today, and is only set to worsen in the coming years. Keep on top of the latest developments and cybersecurity news with Verdict, with articles that include insight from some of the biggest names in the field.
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25 Oct
UN phishing attack: “Few organisations on the planet with more to lose”
Several high profile international organisations, including the UN, have fallen victim to an extensive spear-phishing campaign.
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25 Oct
New API management providers focus on security
A new breed of application program interface (API) management providers are looking to fill the security gaps where traditional vendors fall short. These API security startups showed up in full force at this month’s API World in California.
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25 Oct
Dug Song of Duo Security on Cisco, cybersecurity and skateboarding
A former member of elite hacker group w00w00, Dug Song co-founded Duo Security in 2010 with Jon Oberheide, specialising in multi-factor authentication.
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24 Oct
Account takeover attacks: The digital scam taking phishing’s crown
By now phishing attacks, in which an attacker impersonates trusted organisation to obtain sensitive information, are familiar to many internet users. However, what if the attack came from a trusted boss, colleague or friend?
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24 Oct
Morrisons targeted by bogus ‘William Wilke’ email
Who is William Wilke?
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24 Oct
Have the hackers won? Businesses freeze over cybersecurity action
When it comes to taking action on cybersecurity, many businesses are freezing over concerns that they cannot match the capabilities of hackers.
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22 Oct
Home Group data breach hits 4,000 housing association customers
Home Group, one of the UK’s biggest housing associations, has suffered a data breach in which thousands of personal details are believed to have been stolen.
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22 Oct
Autoclerk leak exposing US military, government data “should never have been possible”
A vast leak of a database belonging to reservations management system Autoclerk exposing 179GB of personal data, including those belonging to US military, government and Department of Homeland Security personnel, has been condemned by the cybersecurity industry.
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18 Oct
Arm joins forces with UK government in “significant milestone” in designing out cyber threats
A partnership between the UK government and chipmaker Arm to develop new chip technologies that are more resistant to cyberattacks has been welcomed by the cybersecurity industry.
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17 Oct
Understanding cybersecurity in the world of risk society
Renowned sociologist Ulrich Beck explained how modern society was becoming a “Risk Society” in that “it is increasingly occupied with debating, preventing and managing risks that it itself has produced”.
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16 Oct
Germany will not preemptively ban Huawei from 5G networks
Germany has announced that it will not preemptively exclude Huawei’s 5G technology from being used in its mobile networks.
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14 Oct
Robots are trusted – and that makes them a powerful tool for heists
Social robots are on the rise, and with the ability to easily gain our trust, they could easily be used to perform cybercriminal activity, such as heists that involve gaining access to secure buildings, according to research published today.
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11 Oct
Smile and wave: The global race to biometric adoption
Despite the prediction that the global biometrics market will grow to over $24 billion by 2023, only 30% of that growth market will come from North America.
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10 Oct
Sex industry forum suffers data breach (and professionals could get caught with their pants down)
A Dutch website where users share reviews, experiences and tips on the sex industry has been compromised by hackers, exposing the details of its 250,000 users that had signed up to use the forum and leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.
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9 Oct
Ecuador is in serious need of proper data protection laws following massive breach
In an era when some of the largest corporations in the world have failed to properly secure the personal data of billions of people, lawmakers have become keen to push legislation aimed at giving consumers greater control over their personal data.
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8 Oct
Could a record-breaking Facebook GDPR fine do “more harm than good”?
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has concluded its investigation into Facebook’s WhatsApp, with the tech giants accused of breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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7 Oct
Deliveroo and Domino’s among most-hacked food delivery companies
Deliveroo, Dominos and Papa Johns are among food delivery companies most often targeted by cybercriminals.
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7 Oct
BA data breach class-action lawsuit “reinforces the power of GDPR”
The United Kingdom’s High Court has granted a group litigation order, allowing customers affected by British Airway’s (BA) 2018 data breach to launch mass legal action against the airline.
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7 Oct
Mikko Hyppönen: Smart devices are “IT asbestos”
The proliferation of “stupid” internet-connected smart devices will be the “IT asbestos of the future”, cybersecurity expert Mikko Hyppönen has warned.
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7 Oct
FIFA 20 data leak compromises 1,600 players’ data – has EA breached GDPR?
A FIFA 20 data leak has compromised the personal data of more than 1,600 players of the Electronic Arts (EA) video game franchise.
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4 Oct
Why managing access is essential for GDPR compliance
The threat of potentially huge fines was one of the biggest talking points in the run up to the EU GDPR.
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4 Oct
5G the biggest future cybersecurity threat, warns Trend Micro researcher
5G will create the biggest future cybersecurity threat according to Rik Ferguson, vice president of security research at Trend Micro.
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4 Oct
Box launches content security tool Shield to combat data leaks
Cloud content management company Box has launched a new content security product to assist in preventing accidental data leakages and “help enterprises secure their most important information”.
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3 Oct
Casbaneiro wants to steal your cryptocurrency… And it has an unusual way of doing it
Casbaneiro wants to steal your cryptocurrency… but not by installing a crypto miner to leach off of your computer power, or demanding a Bitcoin ransom to regain access to your files.
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3 Oct
Tom Van de Wiele Q&A: Reflections of a red teamer
Tom Van de Wiele gets paid to break into a company and steal their secrets.
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2 Oct
Appetite for risk reduction – the growing challenge of third-party risk and compliance
As digital connections between businesses, suppliers and customers have grown deeper and more frequent, the risk of data breaches and cyberattacks spreading via those connections has escalated.
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30 Sep
218 million Words With Friends app users hit by data breach
Users of popular word game app Words With Friends are being advised to change their passwords as game developer Zynga suffers large-scale data breach.
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27 Sep
Facebook data breach: What we’ve learned, one year on
In September 2018, almost 50 million Facebook users were left exposed by a security breach.
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27 Sep
DoorDash data breach shows “lessons haven’t been learned”
Food delivery company DoorDash has announced that it has been the victim of a data breach impacting 4.9 million accounts, the second major cybersecurity incident to hit the company.
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26 Sep
Remote Desktop Protocol a cyber-risk in 90% of organisations
Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a popular tool among IT system administrators, is an increasingly attractive method of attack that allows cybercriminals to remain undetected, according to cybersecurity firm Vectra.
