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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning of large-scale COVID-19-related ‘password spraying’ campaigns against healthcare bodies and medical research organisations, by commercial and state data thieves – known as ‘advanced persistent threat’ (APT) groups  – seeking bulk personal information, intellectual property and intelligence that aligns with national priorities. Password spraying is the attempt to access a large number of ...

Crypto Quantique, the London IoT cyber security startup, has raised an $8 million seed round led by ADV with Entrepreneur First and others. The company claims its technology can deliver a single chip which can generate multiple, unique, unforgeable cryptographic keys on-demand – these cryptographic keys are never stored, are resistant to most side-channel attacks, and can be used independently by multiple applications ...

UK manufacturing and technology sectors are vying for first and second place as the most cyber-attacked industry sectors, according to the 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from US firm NTT Security – the report is compiled from trillions of logs and millions of attacks, said NTT, whose data is analysed across 18 industry sectors. “While manufacturing took top billing in ...

Rolling stock maker Bombardier Transportation has appointed Ricardo and Roke Manor Research to study the digital security risk profile of Aventra, its latest train type, soon to go into service with Crossrail, Transport for London and on various UK over-land services. Ricardo brings knowledge of rail operations, rolling stock design, systems engineering and passenger interaction, while Roke has for many years ...

Queen’s University Belfast is investing £500k in a cyber security research lab at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). An aim of the facility is to work with global companies, start-ups and SMEs to form a strong response to cyber security attacks. The CSIT Test lab includes a high-speed network interconnected via a multi-gigabit optical fibre to the public ...

Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity has partnered with Saint Security, a network protection specialist, to offer technology that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data-based profiling methodologies to fight advanced persistent threats (APTs). AI will be used to identify and block various types of difficult-to-find malware. Machine learning and AI are critical to network security as cybercriminals around the world ...

Hardware security and the threat of cyber attacks is the focus of a £5m multi-university research initiative in the UK. Its hub will be the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which was launched at Queen’s University Belfast this week. The Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) aims to tackle the problem of cyber threats through four ...

A cyber security awareness initiative is taking place across the UK this week. Called Cyber Resilience Week, it is intended to raise awareness of how organisations can be more resilient to cyber threats. Minister for Digital Matt Hancock writes: “We have world-leading businesses, but recent cyber attacks have shown the serious effects of not getting cyber security right.” Organised by the ...

Darktrace, the Cambridge-based cyber-security firm, has raised a $75m Series D financing. The firm, which was created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, is commercially successful with total contracts valued at $200m, an increase of 140% from last year. Much of this growth was driven by outstanding performance in the US, where bookings increased threefold. Financial backers include Insight ...

The UK Government’s Cyber Essentials programme is now mandatory for suppliers of Government contracts,