Life Team Ireland gets ready to capture title at European Cyber Security Challenge Turin calls for hopeful all-island team 3 Oct
Pro IBM report finds phishing remains intrusion tactic of choice for threat groups Report says multi-factor authentication does not guarantee protection but is better than nothing 2 Oct
Blogs Admitting passwords are broken is a step forward A major tech security agency dropping rules for complex passwords is an admission of defeat. It’s about time, says Jason Walsh 27 Sep
Pro Cyber security industry contributed €1.2bn to economy last year – report National cyber industry conference CINC 24 outlines sector growth target of doubling workforce by 2030 26 Sep
Trade Enterprise Ireland, National Cyber Security Centre offer security grants to SMEs Up to €3,000 available to review online security 25 Sep
Pro US authorities take down a Mirai-variant botnet tied to DDoS threat FBI-led operation to disrupt a China-linked botnet comes months after a similar operation in January linked to Volt Typhoon 19 Sep
Pro Microsoft, working with security partners, pledges better deployment, testing collaboration Review of CrowdStike incident forces rethink at Redmond 16 Sep
Pro Cyber attack on Iran’s banking system exposes sensitive data Experts dispute claims motivation was political over commercial 6 Sep
Radio A tough message for Telegram Anonymous messaging platform in the dock and the rest of the week's news 30 Aug
Pro Third of Irish business have paid a ransom in past year, says Expleo More than half of businesses have fallen victim to social engineering cyberattacks in the past year 23 Aug
Life Data protection complaint filed against European Parliament Brussels deals with own GDPR violation 22 Aug
Pro Manual techniques are fuelling ransomware attacks – report Organisations paid $460m in extortion demands to ransomware groups in first half of 2024 21 Aug
Pro Three lessons for maximising cyber security investments CIOs should learn to speak C-suite to secure better resources 21 Aug
Pro Microsoft mandates MFA for all Azure users Customers will have flexibility as to type of measures 20 Aug
Pro Personal e-mail accounts of US election campaign workers targeted in cyber attack APT42 targeted the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in May and June 16 Aug
Pro NCSC publishes cyber emergency plan Plan sets out national strategy for incidents affecting nationally important systems and networks 6 Aug
Pro Microsoft confirms Azure, 365 outage linked to DDoS attack Error in Redmond's security response may have compounded impact of cloud service outage 1 Aug
Pro Global data breach costs reach all-time high of $4.9m, IBM says Compromised credentials top attack vector and root cause of data breaches this year 31 Jul
Pro CrowdStrike blames global outage on buggy update Company vows to do better with improvements to testing and deployment 24 Jul
Pro Microsoft says less than 1% of its systems affected by CrowdStrike failure Faltering updates plagued security firm before Friday's crash 22 Jul
Life Security agent ‘bluescreens’ crucial systems worldwide An update by a security software provider has caused a cascade of failures taken out airlines, banks and other businesses 22 Jul
Blogs AT&T attack is the latest event in a devastating rolling cloud hack A breach at third party cloud provider has exposed data from millions of users, writes Jason Walsh 16 Jul
Pro Snowflake allows admins to enforce MFA as breach investigations conclude Report finds corporate and production assets were not compromised 11 Jul
Pro Nearly 10bn passwords found online in largest ever leak Leak could involve data from more than 4,000 databases 11 Jul
Pro HubSpot reports nearly 50 customer accounts compromised Company stays tightlipped on details of breach 5 Jul
Pro Cisco Nexus devices zero day raises alarms despite CVSS score Threat actor had been operating on one victim’s computer network for three years 4 Jul
Pro 700,000 OpenSSH servers vulnerable to remote code execution CVE Researchers haven’t confirmed exploitability on macOS, Windows 2 Jul
Pro Memory-unsafe code runs rampant in critical open source projects Software industry called on to phase out languages including C, C++ 28 Jun
Pro Why the cyber security industry isn’t ready for AI Most organisations unprepared for AI attacks, RSA Conference 2024 hears 25 Jun
Pro Nearly 150,000 Asus routers potentially exposed to critical vulnerability Affected devices could be recruited into botnets or serve as entry points to corporate networks 24 Jun
Pro Ransomware victims are becoming less likely to pay up Risk and resillience management making ransomware less effective, profitable 24 Jun
Life Ireland wins gold at WorldSkills Global Skills Challenge Duo march on to WorldSkills International Cybersecurity Competition in September 13 Jun
Pro Pure Storage comes forward as early victim of Snowflake-linked attacks Company tightlipped over when breach occured 13 Jun
Pro Critical PHP CVE is under attack – research shows it’s easy to exploit Catastrophic vulnerability the result of errors in character encoding conversions 12 Jun
Pro IT leaders in the UK and Ireland agree stress impacts their staff retention Search for quick wins only deepens the skills gap in security 11 Jun
Pro More Snowflake customers attacked, data stolen for extortion Some stolen credentials used in attack date back to November 2020 11 Jun
Pro Pressure mounts on Snowflake and its customers as attacks spread At least four major companies are now reportedly exposed by cyber attacks 7 Jun
Blogs Ticketmaster attack does more than rub salt in wounds The latest rash of security breaches raises worries of a pattern of stolen credentials being used for data theft from the cloud, says Jason Walsh 7 Jun
Blogs Forget the shop floor, AI is coming for the C-Suite Overpaid execs may find themselves hostages to nostalgia when management by AI becomes the norm, says Billy MacInnes 6 Jun
Pro How to identify and implement security automation use cases Implementing custom solutions doesn't have to be complicated with the right playbook, says Kevin Schmidt 5 Jun
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