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Nearly half of small businesses in US hit by cyber attack in past 12 months

Homeland June 22, 2018

A new survey has revealed that nearly half of small businesses suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year. According to the 2018 Hiscox Small Business Cyber Risk Report, which surveyed 4,103 professionals responsible for their organisation’s cyber security strategy, 47% of the small businesses s had at least one cyber ...

US identifies malware cyber threat from North Korea

Homeland June 20, 2018

A new report from the US Department of Homeland Security has revealed that is has identified malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government. The Malware Analysis Report (MAR) follows President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s historic meeting in Singapore last week. The Department of Homeland Security’s MAR ...

Banks warned of increasing cyber threat by Bank of England

Homeland June 19, 2018

The Bank of England has warned banks they need to be better prepared for the increasing threat of cyber attacks and technology failure. In his speech at the 20th Annual Operational Risk Europe conference in London, Lyndon Nelson, deputy CEO & Executive Director of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority ...

MEPs call for stronger cyber defence as threats increase

Homeland June 18, 2018

The European Parliament has voted on a resolution to establish a more robust defence in the face of increasing malicious cyber attacks. The cyber defence resolution, passed by 476 votes to 151, with 36 abstentions, recognised that Russia, China and North Korea, in addition to non-state actors, had conducted malicious cyber attacks ...