International wildlife charity, The Born Free Foundation, has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to instigate a ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses across Scotland. The charity is now encouraging the Westminster Government to stick to its previous pledge of a ban in England by 2020, and for the Welsh and Northern Irish Governments to follow suit.
MELKSHAM, UK, 24 May, 2018 – Six-times Isle of Man TT Sidecar race-winners Ben and Tom Birchall are aiming to take their seventh sidecar victory at this year’s Isle of Man TT.
It has been reported today that the police are warning that the new European Union rules on data protection have prompted a wave of phishing scams with cybercriminals tricking Brits into handing over their payment details.
In response to the news that the police are warning that the EU GDPR has prompted a wave of scam messages as fraudsters masquerade as banks to trick Brits into handing over their payment details, I have the following comments from Mark James, security specialist at internet security firm, ESET:
It has been reported that there are 14 vulnerabilities in BMW’s vehicles that allow remote hacks that could affect drivers’ control of the vehicles, according to a new report from Keen Security Lab. The vulnerabilities were found in the location tracking systems; infotainment systems, including voice recognition services; and, in some cases, malicious hacks could be launched using “serious vulnerabilities” in the USB interfaces.
Cisco Systems warned yesterday that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with highly sophisticated malicious software, possibly in preparation for another massive cyber attack on Ukraine in a bid to disrupt the Champions League final in Ukraine’s capital. The malware, which has been called VPNFilter by Cisco, could be used for espionage as well as to destroy the devices that it has infected.
Tenable quantifies decisive security metric in determining overall Cyber Exposure
COLUMBIA, Md., LONDON (May 24, 2018) — Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, released a new research report today that quantifies the window of opportunity cybercriminals have to weaponize vulnerabilities. The research found that cybercriminals have a median seven-day window of opportunity during which they can exploit a vulnerability to attack their victims, potentially siphoning sensitive data, launching ransomware attacks and causing extensive financial damage before organizations even take the first step to determine their Cyber Exposure and whether they are at risk.
With the European General Data Protection Regulation coming into force tomorrow, security experts from ESET, Tenable, Imperva, CyberProof and Outpost24 have provided advice on the final checks organisations should consider before the deadline:
Earlier today, Cisco Talos identified an advanced state-sponsored network of at least 500,000 infected home office/small office routers and storage devices preparing for a destructive global attack. According to reports, this is one of the largest networks of coordinated infected devices ever seen, it shares commonalities with attacks that the US Government has attributed to Russian entities and the Ukraine is one of the most heavily infected countries.
Today Cisco warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with highly sophisticated malicious software, possibly in preparation for another massive cyber-attack on Ukraine. Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit is saying that the Russian government is behind a campaign, dubbed VPNFilter, where the hacking software shares code with malware used in previous cyber-attacks that the U.S. government has attributed to Moscow.