Cyber criminal gangs are telling their targets to stop authenticating with Okta services in what the company’s threat management team is describing as a ringing endorsement of its technology and a lesson in why phishing-resistant authentication methods are now not merely a nice-to-have, but a must-have. Due to its position as a first line of…
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IT services provider Cognizant is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of its customers, which claims lax security procedures enabled the Scattered Spider hacking collective – blamed for the attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group – to access its systems by convincing a Cognizant helpdesk employee to reset a password. The August 2023…
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Businesses are under attack from all corners of the globe and while many organisations may think that nation-state threat actors would never target or be interested in them, the reality is that no-one is exempt from security threats. Security leaders need to ensure they are staying up to speed on the latest threat intelligence, this…
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After the last Parallels Desktop update brought Writing Tools support to Windows virtual machines, the software has been updated to provide greater support for Apple Intelligence features, and more. Here’s what’s new in Parallels Desktop 20.2.With enhanced Writing Tools capabilities for Windows apps, this Apple Intelligence feature is now integrated into the context menu in…
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The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to dominate the headlines. This year, we steer away from AI fear, uncertainty and doubt to focus on some of the other big…
The United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) yesterday unsealed criminal charges against five individuals, including a 22 year-old British national named as Tyler Robert Buchanan, over their alleged involvement in the Scattered Spider cyber attacks. During their criminal rampage, the gang used social engineering techniques to game their victims into giving up vital credentials, often…
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Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber attack on its systems, but has waited over a week to tell customers that they have been affected. The incident first manifested as a network outage on 20 September, before being confirmed as a cyber…
The dreaded realisation that something has happened, data has been accessed and now you need to tell customers and the world. Years of hard work to build trust and reputation now hang in the balance of how you deal with and communicate the incident. When and if this happens, there are key steps that need…
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Cyber security companies have made global headlines recently with a series of significant incidents which caused widespread disruption. The CrowdStrike incident is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies as much as $5.4bn, according to Parametrix analysis. The Okta data breach and Ivanti Virtual Private Network (VPN) vulnerabilities raise similar concerns about the impact cyber…
Cyber companies need a best practice approach to major incidents. Read More »
The number of girls choosing to take computing at GCSE level is rising steadily, with 2024 seeing the third consecutive year of growth. This year, 21,020 female students across the UK took the GCSE computing exam, a rise from 19,061 in 2023. However, with 74,821 male students also sitting the exam, girls are still heavily…
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