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?
KashmirBlack: websites at risk!
The botnet has infected hundreds of thousands of websites by attacking vulnerabilities in their content management system (CMS) platforms.
EU cyber agency calls out AI threat
New ENISA report warns of potential increase in highly personalised cyber attacks thanks to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Patch Tuesday fixes 87 flaws (11 critical)
Have you applied the patches to prevent exploitation of the flaws found, as reported in SC Magazine?
What's next
Healthcare will remain a target
Some ransomware groups announced earlier in 2020 that they would not target the healthcare sector. Many seem to have gone back on their word.
Forrester: data privacy will dominate in 2021
Predictions foresee increased appetite for sensitive data, and growing complexity in data privacy regulation and compliance.
Black Hat Europe 2020, December 7 – 10
This iconic event for cyber security professionals is fully virtual this year and includes speakers from the European Space Agency, GitHub, and VMWare.
What You Might Have Missed
ICO fines BA £20 million for breach
British Airways has paid a hefty price for exposing 400,000 people’s credit card details to attackers.
Barnes & Noble: poor network segmentation?
The recent attack on the US bookseller raises critical issues around lateral threat movement and privilege escalation.
A decade of cyber attacks – on film
New movie The Perfect Weapon reveals the international cyber cold war waged on businesses, institutions and Governments for the last ten years.
