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UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 31 March 2025
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup - 31 March 2025 Welcome to this week's edition of our cybersecurity news roundup, bringing you the latest developments and insights from the UK and beyond. UK ...
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 23 March 2025
Welcome to this week's edition of our cybersecurity news roundup, bringing you the latest developments and insights from the UK and beyond. NHS Scotland Confirms Cyberattack Disruption On 20 March 2025, NHS ...
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 16 March 2025
Welcome to this week's edition of our cybersecurity news roundup, bringing you the latest developments and insights from the UK and beyond. UK Government's Stance on Encryption Raises Global Concerns The UK ...
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 9 March 2025
Welcome to this week's edition of our cybersecurity news roundup, bringing you the latest developments and insights from the UK and beyond.Microsoft Engineer's Transition to Cybersecurity Ankit Masrani, a 36-year-old software engineer, ...
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 2 March 2025
UK Government's Encryption Demands Lead to Apple's Data Protection Withdrawal The UK government has mandated that Apple provide access to encrypted iCloud backups under the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. In response, ...
UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 24 February 2025
Welcome to this week's edition of our cybersecurity news roundup, bringing you the latest developments and insights from the UK and beyond. Home Office Contractor's Data Collection Sparks Privacy Concerns The Home ...

Best of 2021 – The Linux Flaw you can’t afford to Ignore (CVE-2021-3156)
SecurityExpert | | Apple, CVE-2021-3156, Hacking, iot, Linux, patching, Qualys, sudo, Unix, Vulnerability Management
Linux and Unix operating systems require regular patching like any IT system, but as security professionals, ethical hackers, and criminal hackers will tell you, regular Linux and Unix patching is often neglected.CVE-2021-3156 ...

Prevention is Better Than Cure: The Ransomware Evolution
Ransomware tactics have continued to evolve over the years, and remain a prominent threat to both SMBs and larger organisations. Particularly during the peak of COVID-19, research by IBM found that ransomware incidents ‘exploded’ ...

How Businesses Can Utilise Penetration Testing
SecurityExpert | | Application Security, Hacking, penetration test, Physical Security, Vulnerability Management, WiFi security
Understand your security vulnerabilitiesArticle by Beau PetersThe basic approaches like phishing simulations are good, but they tend to have limited reach. This is why more agile methods, penetration testing among them, have been getting ...

Payment Security: Understanding the Four Corner Model
Introduction Online shopping digital payment transactions may seem quite simple, but in reality, just one single transaction sets off multiple, long-chain reactions. The Payment Card Industry comprises debit cards, credit cards, prepaid, ...