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One Year On: What Have We Really Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage?
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 digital...
NCSC Threat Report – 30 September 2022
Launch of DCMS 2023 cyber security survey of UK organisationsThe 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...
NCSC Threat Report – 19 August 2022
Patches released for Apple and Google Chrome vulnerabilitiesUsers 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 vulnerability...
NCSC and ICO call on Legal Profession to Support Position on Ransomware Payments
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 Society, after...
HMRC phishing scams have grown 87% during COVID-19
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...
Unsecured Servers and Cloud Services Leave Networks Exposed to Cyber Attacks
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”...