National Cyber Security Centre
Hostile States Behind Most Attacks on UK Critical Infrastructure
What happened Britain’s cyber chief warned that hostile states are responsible for roughly three-quarters of cyberattacks affecting the country’s critical national infrastructure. Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, ...
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed ...
Brits Ban Bad Passwords — and Other IoT Stupid Stuff
Nice Cup of IoTea? The UK’s Product Security and TeleÂcommÂuniÂcations InfraÂstrucÂture Act aims to improve the security of net-connected consumer gear ...
AI Will Fuel Rise in Ransomware, UK Cyber Agency Says
The accelerating innovation of generative AI will increase the risks of ransomware and other cyberthreats over the next two years as bad actors integrate the technologies into their nefarious operations, according to ...
Russia’s Offer to Extradite Attackers – and a Grain of Salt
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would be willing to hand over cyber criminals to the United States if Washington agreed to reciprocate. According to Reuters, Putin disclosed his country’s willingness to ...
New UK NCSC Guidelines Urge Use of Multi-Factor Authentication and Single Sign-On Solutions
A couple of weeks ago, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, a part of the British intelligence and security organization GCHQ, published guidelines for enterprise information security leaders on how they can ...
