The European Union (EU) has issued a warning about the measurably increase in the volume of Russian cyber-attacks associated with the Russia Ukraine conflict and how these attacks can easily spread to other regions. Nations that actively support Ukraine, with whatever resources, are likely to be “at risk” of this …
Who decides who the good guys are? Don’t worry though NSO only sells it’s spyware to approved governments and law enforcement agencies
Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …
The Online Safety Bill is delayed until the Conservatives can make their minds ups!
The passing of the Online Safety Bill is going to be delayed (along with other legislation) until the Conservatives choose a new Prime Minister for the country. Online Safety Bill put on hold until new prime minister in place – BBC News
More and more phishing attacks – each with their own special touch to exploit the trust of your people!
A UK Government’s report looking at cybersecurity breaches across the country, (UK Government. 2022), prepared by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (and sport!) showed clearly email phishing is a real threat: “Of the 39% of UK businesses who identified an attack, the most common threat vector was phishing …
What is the UK’s official response to Chinese cyber aggression?
Well according to report by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee it is “incoherent and muted”: Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart of UK foreign policy – Foreign Affairs Committee (parliament.uk) Then there was this from last week: UK response to Chinas tech push ‘incoherent and muted’ • …
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The Online Safety Bill is still going through parliament and we are back to the question of end-to-end encryption
I quite like the the government’s Online Safety Bill is that it will compel the Big Tech companies to action about child sex abuse material (CSAM), and delivery huge fines if they fail to do so. However a requirement to monitor communications apps with end-to-end encryption (E2EE), for CSAM causes …
MI5 and the FBI warn about the cyber threat posed by China
Ken McCallum, the MI5 director general and Christopher Wray, the FBI director have delivered a joint statement at the MI5 building in London, warning that China is carrying out economic espionage and hacking operations to steal technology for competitive gain. “We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses …
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