Cybercrime

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released a free cyber security training package for teachers and other school staff, setting out steps to take to help mitigate cyber attacks and drawing on real-life case studies to demonstrate the impact of such incidents.

NCSC offers teachers free cyber security training (computerweekly.com)

The research shows that 68% of cyber crimes happened after the victim responded to fraudulent emails, texts and phone calls, resulting in them transferring money to the fraudster.

Cyber crime up 6%: Watch out for emails, texts, phone calls (electronicsweekly.com)

Technology companies continue to be frequently spoofed by cyber criminals in their phishing attempts

Microsoft is most impersonated brand in phishing attempts (computerweekly.com)

Multiple systems are offline at the University of Hertfordshire following a cyber attack

University of Hertfordshire is latest academic cyber attack victim (computerweekly.com)

US president imposes new sanctions on Russia following malicious cyber attacks against the US and allies

Biden sanctions Russia over SolarWinds cyber attacks (computerweekly.com)

Microsoft patches more critical vulnerabilities in Exchange Server a month after the ProxyLogon incident, after being warned by the US National Security Agency

NSA unearths more MS Exchange vulnerabilities (computerweekly.com)

A long-disclosed vulnerability in Fortinet’s Fortigate VPN servers is being exploited to distribute Cring ransomware

Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug (computerweekly.com)

If your email password is still Rex, Rover or Mr Fluffles, it’s probably best to change it, the NCSC has said

NCSC: Using your pet’s name as a password is very stupid (computerweekly.com)

Research shows that many people have been seeking cyber crime-related work on the dark web, but why?

Why some jobseekers have turned to cyber crime during the pandemic (computerweekly.com)

With lockdown restrictions easing in the UK, cyber criminals are tailoring their phishing lures to new areas of interest

Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts (computerweekly.com)