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Dutch businesses lag behind in cyber resilience as threats escalate

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The Netherlands is facing a growing cyber security crisis, with a staggering 66% of Dutch businesses lacking adequate cyber resilience, according to academic research.   As geopolitical tensions rise and digital threats escalate, Rick van der Kleij, a psychologist and professor in Cyber Resilient Organisations at Avans University of Applied Sciences, who also conducts research at…

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Beyond the hook: How phishing is evolving in the world of AI

7 minutes of reading / AI, digital transformation, firewalls, internet of things, machine learning, Tech, threat intelligence / By

One almost feels a little nostalgic for the days of old-school phishing attacks, those poorly worded, spray-and-pray emails that most people could spot a mile off. While they were still a danger, it was fairly simple to create countermeasures. But things have changed. Today’s phishing campaigns harness artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes and adversarial techniques to…

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Cyber security dovetails with AI to lead 2025 corporate IT investment

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, data analytics, firewalls, machine learning, microservices, network security, Tech / By

Cyber security, whether singly or in tandem with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), dominates enterprise IT investment plans in 2025, according to Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group’s annual spending intentions research. The research, based on responses from 1,351 IT and business professionals worldwide, found that cyber security outpaces all other categories of initiative, with a dramatic…

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US bank FNBO uses Pindrop to tackle voice fraud, deepfakes

9 minutes of reading / ChatGPT, Computer, firewalls, Tech / By

With cyber criminality and fraud against banks running rampant in recent years and showing no signs of slacking off, banking organisations around the world are coming to understand that they need to be doing much more effective due diligence when managing inbound customer contacts via voice calls or web chats. First National Bank of Omaha…

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NCSC exposes Chinese company running malicious Mirai botnet

3 minutes of reading / firewalls, Git, internet of things, network security, Tech, Technology / By

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart Five Eyes agencies have accused a China-based company acting as a front for the state of running a massive botnet comprising over 250,000 internet-connected devices, about 8,500 of them located in the UK. The compromised devices include enterprise network and security tools such as routers…

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Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks

4 minutes of reading / AI, firewalls, IDS, Microsoft, patch management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

The China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as APT40 has been busy evolving its playbook and has recently been observed actively targeting new victims by exploiting vulnerabilities in small office and home office (SoHo) networking devices as a staging post for command and control (C2) activity during their attacks This is according to an…

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How to ensure public cloud services are used safely and securely

4 minutes of reading / Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital transformation, firewalls, Intel, penetration testing, Tech / By

By Published: 12 Jun 2024 The public cloud is a cloud computing model that enables resources such as applications, data storage, and virtual machines to be accessed remotely and on demand. While largely a benefit, it also leaves organisations open to public cloud security risks, particularly when they allow users to access on-demand services from…

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Sellafield local authority slammed over response to North Korean ransomware attack

6 minutes of reading / compliance, Computer, disaster recovery, firewalls, IT governance, Tech, VPN / By

Former bosses at Copeland Borough Council blame a 2017 ransomware attack for the authority’s failure to submit audited accounts for its final four years of business. As part of local government reform, Copeland was incorporated into the joint Cumberland authority on 1 April 2023.Auditors from Grant Thornton have now also lambasted Copeland for its response…

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NCSC updates warning over hacktivist threat to CNI

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and US partner the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a warning about the evolving threat from Russia-backed hacktivist threat actors targeting critical national infrastructure (CNI), after a number of American utilities were attacked. The NCSC has previously warned over the growth in mercenary activity by…

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Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler vulns reaching dangerous levels

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Time may be running short for users of Citrix’s NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway products who have not yet patched against two recently disclosed vulnerabilities to do so, after cyber researchers started to see elevated levels of activity targeting them. Disclosed on 10 October, and possibly exploited as long ago as August,…

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