Italy’s plan to set up a national cybersecurity agency comes hot on the heels of several major cyberattacks on national level-infrastructure, which have served as an important wake-up call for all those who have a role to play in securing critical embedded systems.
The success of this new scheme will depend on whether the Italian government can achieve several key goals. First comes safety standardisation. Establishing security standards and safe software development principles,
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Like(The news of the attack on the Harris Federation comes on the heels of last week’s warning from the NCSC of the growing threat to the education sector posed by cybercrime and ransomware in particular. During this pandemic, we have seen a nearly 600% rise in malicious attacks worldwide targeting schools and universities, offices, government departments, and hospitals. This reflects the growing number and sophistication of cyberattacks and ransomware over the last year, as shown in our latest
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The latest warning from the NCSC is yet another signal of the growing threat to the education sector posed by cybercrime and ransomware in particular. During this pandemic, we have seen a nearly 600% rise in malicious attacks worldwide targeting schools and universities, offices, government departments and hospitals. This reflects the growing number and sophistication of cyberattacks and ransomware over the last year, as shown in our latest 2021 Threat Report.
To ensure the continuity of
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Cybercriminals exploit confusion and uncertainty. The pandemic has been a case in point with a huge rise in scams and new approaches to exploiting the general public. ‘Silent stealing’ tactics, including unauthorised access to accounts and low level anomalous activity in paystreams are on the rise. But the success of these scams needn’t be inevitable.
We know the scams and hacks are coming, so we must all understand what is at stake. Personal data is worth more than ever – bank details,
Cybercriminals exploit confusion and uncertainty. The pandemic has been a case in point with a huge rise in scams, and during this new lockdown we can expect to see more cyber-attacks like this. While these cyber-attacks are inevitable, their success needn’t be.
We know the scams and hacks are coming. Institutions, their employees, and other stakeholders must understand what is at stake: personal data is worth more than ever on the dark web – bank details, passwords, and much more. A lack
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