Research by Coveware has shown a significant drop in ransomware payments by victims. New Ransomware Reporting Requirements Kick in as Victims Increasingly Avoid Paying (coveware.com) The reasons for the drop are varied but one of the highlighted reasons is that more organisations have ransomware strategies in place and are prepared …
Updates and Patches
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of our go-to information sources for cyber security information. Whilst I have been away my team have been keeping up with the news there, but I have not! Here is a round-up of their latest alerts: VMware Releases Security …
Towards Secure AI
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has joined with other international government agencies, with responsibility for cyber security, from around the world to create guidelines for the secure developement of AI systems. These guideline cover, data poisoning, input manipulation, privacy and IP threats, re-identification of anonomised data, model stealing and …
The AI cyber-crime arms race
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report discussing the cyber security threat and the benefits for cyber security defence artificial intelligence (AI) poses over the next two years: Global ransomware threat expected to rise with AI, NCSC warns – NCSC.GOV.UK The near-term impact of AI on the …
Secure AI
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been working with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other partners to produce some guidelines for developing secure AI technologies. Guidelines for secure AI system development – NCSC.GOV.UK Even if you are not in AI the document has …
Cyber Attacks at an all-time high in the UK
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released its annual report on the state of the nation’s cyber security. NCSC warns of enduring and significant threat to UK’s… – NCSC.GOV.UK The main theme of the report is to highlight the unpredictability of the ever-changing threat landscape, emphasising that UK organisations …
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Apple’s report into how it stops App Store crimes
I choose not to call them scams but crimes. The Apple App Store is well curated, that is one of Apple’s selling points for its products – the added security this curation brings. But of course, the threat actors are always looking for ways to squeeze past this curation. Apple …
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