The Cyber News Roundup

A look back at news, views and more over the past couple of weeks, taken from our last Cyber Security Insights newsletter and other sources.

Catch up on the latest threats, research, advice and events – in fact, all things cyber – at your convenience.

What's New?

SolarWinds breach ‘inevitable’

Highly evasive attacker leverages SolarWinds supply chain.

Trump bans apps

Executive order signed banning the use of apps that ‘threaten national security, foreign policy and economy of United States’.

Hospital attacks on the rise

Digital attacks against care organisations spike further during a time of increased vulnerability.

What's next

$145m funds raised

iBoss raises an eye watering $145m to fund rapid expansion plans.

Your own worst enemy

Your best chance to stop yourself getting hacked in 2021.

Closing the gap

Survey finds women earn 35% less than men in the cyber field. Time for change.

Reliance acsn gains NCSC approval

We are proud to announce our acceptance to NCSC’s CHECK Scheme.

What You Might Have Missed

Cyber security giant FireEye hacked

Cyber security giant FireEye has confessed its most secure servers have been compromised.

Microsoft Teams critical patch required

Organisations urged to prioritise patching the zero-click remote code execution vulnerability.

Gone phishing

Mysterious phishing campaign seeking to collect credentials from organisations developing COVID-19 shipping containers.

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NHS Digital Part 3: Great Work, Great Challenges And Great People

1st July 2020 | Cyber security, News and Events

Written by John Noble CBE, Advisory Board member In the final instalment of this blog (read part two here or part one here), Reliance acsn Advisory Board Director John Noble CBE shares his experience of working with NHS Digital and government bodies to secure the NHS against cyber attack – and how the COVID-19 pandemic has made [...]

Cyber analyst: New tool protects remote workers from Covid-19 scams

14th April 2020 | Cyber security, News and Events

COVID-19 phishing scams have skyrocketed over the past weeks, as hackers exploit anxiety and faltering vigilance in this strange new working world. But our analyst Diego Valero Marco is fighting back with his DROPi tool, enabling CISOs to give remote teams the power to detect and avoid malicious COVID-19 domains. New tool to protect against [...]

WEBINAR: National Policing Cyber Security Webinar Series

6th May 2020 | Cyber security, News and Events, Webinar

How have you been managing to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic? Could you make this time easier? Join the City of London Police's Cyber Griffin team and guests, including Reliance acsn's Vice Chairman Tarquin Foliss OBE, as they look at how people have adapted to working from home, and the effect it [...]

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DELT appoint Reliance acsn for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services

21st January 2019 | Cyber security

Shared services specialist Delt (www.deltservices.com) delivers a wide range of key services, including IT, Payroll, HR and Print Services, to a rapidly growing portfolio of public sector customers in the South West, including NHS England, the regional Clinical Commissioning Group, Plymouth and Torbay Councils, Plym Academy Trust, and many other vital healthcare, education and community [...]