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New Zealand activates security services as DDoS outage enters fourth day
The New Zealand government has called in its national cyber security services to investigate as the New Zealand Stock Exchange ...DDoS downs New Zealand stock exchange for third day
New Zealand’s stock exchange has been offline for days after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack affected its network ...Double extortion ransomware attacks and how to stop them
Ransomware is one of the most common types of cyber threat, targeting a business every 14 seconds and costing $11.5bn ...Ministers urge local councils to lead on broadband and mobile
The government is calling on local councils to help ensure that everybody can access the high-quality broadband and mobile connectivity ...Avaddon ransomware operators having a go at double extortion
The operators of the Avaddon ransomware appear to be tooling up to conduct so-called double extortion cyber attacks, a relatively ...Microsoft wins on public cloud trust
IT budgets are set to increase in 2021, a new survey from CCS Insight has reported. Two-thirds of the 730 ...North Korea’s Lazarus targets cryptocurrency vertical
The Lazarus Group, the advanced persistent threat (APT) group aligned to the interests of the North Korean government, is orchestrating ...Dementia patients co-develop Dutch Alzheimer’s app for enhanced interaction
The Alzheimer’s Society in the Netherlands has created an app that promotes social interaction between people with dementia and their ...Getting physical with datacentre security
Hackers can wreak all sorts of havoc by breaching datacentres, from gaining access to masses of sensitive data to knocking ...UKAS rejects ISO certification concerns
The UK’s National Accreditation Service (UKAS) has responded to concerns that thousands of ISO data protection and compliance certifications are ...
