Cybercrime

A report examining how nefarious cyber activity over the past 12 months has impacted UK businesses.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberthreat

The cyber threat to UK business is “bigger than ever” and the best way to defend against it is collaboration between government, law enforcement and business, a NCSC report shows

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438612/Cyber-threat-to-UK-business-greater-than-ever-report-reveals

The UK home secretary has emphasised that cyber security is a shared responsibility and committed to promote EU cyber cooperation post-Brexit at the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Manchester

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438851/Cyber-security-a-shared-responsibility-says-Amber-Rudd

Cybersecurity expert Dr. Jessica Barker, any one of us can move into a Homer Simpson-like state given the right type of social engineering. It is in this state that we are then susceptible to scams like phishing, spear phishing, vishing and business email compromise.

http://www.fraudconferencenews.com/home/2018/4/10/cybersecurity-expert-speaks-on-social-engineering-techniques-and-gdpr-vulnerabilities

Government funding has been allocated to help streamline cyber-attack reporting, according to the National Cyber Security Centre

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438915/UK-cyber-attack-reporting-set-to-be-more-streamlined

A shocking report this month revealed that 99% of all cybercriminals escaped justice in the UK. This is a staggering figure and paints a gloomy picture for those victims falling foul of online scams.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-do-99-cybercrime-fraudsters-escape-justice-uk-1665631

As Facebook scrambles to contain the damage from the Cambridge Analytica data exploitation scandal, a survey reveals that a majority of IT decision-makers have lost trust in the social networking firm

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438146/IT-decision-makers-trust-Facebook-less-and-are-changing-policies

Cyber attackers switched focus to ransomware attacks in 2017 putting pressure on incident response, while human error was responsible for two-thirds of compromised records

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438171/Ransomware-puts-pressure-on-incident-response

Facebook was warned by security researchers that attackers could abuse its phone number and email search facility to harvest people's data.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43656746

The time taken by firms to detect breaches increased by 40% from 2016 to 175 days on average in 2017, according to the latest M-Trends report by security firm FireEye.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252438158/Average-attacker-dwell-time-nearly-six-months-for-EMEA-study-shows