by Cyber Security Unity | Aug 6, 2025 | Cyber Insights, Cyber News, Threat Reports
Insights from the August 2025 edition of #InfosecLunchHour which took place on Wednesday 6 August 2025 at 12.30pm BST on Zoom. It’s been just over a year since that fateful Friday in July 2024 when a single software update from CrowdStrike brought much of the...
by Cyber Security Unity | Oct 2, 2022 | Threat Reports
Launch of DCMS 2023 cyber security survey of UK organisations The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has now started the research for its latest survey of UK businesses, academia and charities to understand the cyber security issues they face. Organisations...
by Cyber Security Unity | Aug 21, 2022 | Threat Reports
Patches released for Apple and Google Chrome vulnerabilities Users should be aware that Google and Apple have released security updates to fix vulnerabilities affecting their respective products. Apple’s two vulnerabilities include a remote code execution...
by Cyber Security Unity | Aug 7, 2022 | Threat Reports
Ransomware is the biggest online threat to UK organisations and, worryingly, we’ve seen evidence of a rise in payments to criminals behind these attacks. That’s why the NCSC and the Information Commissioner’s Office have called for help from the Law...
by csa | Jul 2, 2021 | Threat Reports
A recent FOI request has revealed that HMRC phishing scams have grown 87% during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reports of phishing scams impersonating the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) also surged during this...
by csa | Jun 26, 2021 | Threat Reports
New Analysis by Zscaler of 1500 corporate networks found exposed servers, ports and cloud services in the hundreds of thousands. The research also found over 200,000 unpatched common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), of which almost half were classed as “Critical”...
