Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defences for BYOVD Attacks Summary Over the past year threat actors — notably ransomware groups — have stepped up use of bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD) attacks to…
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Summary Staff at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have been instructed to remove the terms “biodefence”…
MPs brand NS&I’s £3B IT overhaul a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ Summary Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has delivered a blistering assessment of National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) long-running digital modernisation —…
Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace Summary Anthropic has announced a US$30 billion Series G round that values the company at US$380 billion post-money. The business —…
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown Summary Analyst firm Gartner warns that misconfigured AI embedded in cyber-physical systems could shut down critical national infrastructure in a G20…
CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds, Apple, Microsoft bugs within weeks Summary The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added ten new vulnerabilities to its Known…
Europe must adapt to ‘permanent’ cyber and hybrid threats, Sweden warns Summary At the Munich Cyber Security Conference, Lisa Gustafsson, director of foreign intelligence and cyber at the Swedish Ministry…
China may be rehearsing a digital siege, Taiwan warns Summary At the Munich Cyber Security Conference, Yuh-Jye Lee, a senior adviser at Taiwan’s National Security Council, warned that China appears…
Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate Summary A high-profile trial in California is asking a jury to decide whether heavy social-media use in adolescence…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper Summary Dutch mobile network operator Odido has confirmed a breach of a customer contact system that may have…
