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National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov

National Cyber Strategy

Move fast, break security: Why CISOs must push back against Agile IT

The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome them.

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

British police have made a series of arrests over the past few months after people with apparent access to NHS databases allegedly sold fake vaccination status entries on the NHS vaccine passport app.…

Why ransomware attacks happen out of hours or during the holidays

Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

Facebook successor Meta on Thursday said it canceled 1,500 social media accounts used by seven surveillance-for-hire firms to conduct online attacks against government critics and members of civil society.…

Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to patch

Log4j bug

RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria

The RAF has scored its first air-to-air "kill" – where an aircraft downs an enemy aircraft – for almost 40 years after shooting down a drone over Syria.…

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday escalated its call to fix the Apache Log4j vulnerability with an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to take corrective action by 5 pm EST on December 23, 2021.…

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals <i>another</i> Log4J bug

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has revealed a third bug in its Log4 Java-based open-source logging library Log4j.…