The Cyber News Roundup

A look back at news, views and more over the past couple of weeks, taken from our last Cyber Security Insights newsletter and other sources.

Catch up on the latest threats, research, advice and events – in fact, all things cyber – at your convenience.

What's New?

Microsoft hack morphing into global crisis

60,000 known victims including banks, electricity providers and care homes affected.

The lure of travel and tourism

Newly discovered threat group targeting International Air Transport Association, airlines and refugees to Canada.

University challenged

Queen’s university take precautions after attack attempt.

What's next

Browsing with confidence

Google engineers working hard to promote secure web browsing for business owners and users through HTTP upgrades.

Proceed with caution

Security researcher recommends against LastPass password manager after noting seven embedded trackers.

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What You Might Have Missed

SolarWinds saga continues

More than 1,000 developers involved in the ‘largest and most sophisticated attack’.

Rip and replace

Let’s Encrypt completes massive upgrade after bug is found in its automated certificate management environment.

Health hacks (not the good kind)

North Korea accused of hacking Pfizer for COVID-19 data.

After Apprenticeship Week, a cybersec apprentice speaks out

30th April 2019 | General interest

In early March 2019, the UK Government officially celebrated the benefits of apprenticeships to individuals, employers and the economy, in National Apprenticeship Week. Reliance acsn is proud to support this important route into professional education, training and employment for young people, and our apprentices are proud to be here, too. We interviewed one of our [...]

From Stuxnet to Colonial: Why hackers will always target control systems

27th May 2021 | Cyber security, News and Events

Stuxnet was about geopolitics. Colonial was about money (and perhaps geopolitics too). What links the two attacks – which occurred more than a decade apart – is that Industrial Control Systems (ICS) were affected by the attacks. One directly, the other indirectly.

Cybercrime’s oldest profession

6th July 2021 | Cyber security, Headlines, Latest threat, News and Events

In the summer of 2015, a hacker group called Impact Team decided to take down Ashley Madison (owned at the time by Toronto based company, Avid Life Media) and expose their lax security. Ashley Madison’s high-profile CIO had been proclaiming that the site had amazing security because, as he put it, “It’s not lipstick on our collars anymore getting us caught, it’s digital lipstick; voicemails, text messages [etc.]”.

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An Industry ‘First’: Reliance ACSN Achieves Prestigious Investor in Sales Award from the Association of Professional Sales (APS)

19th October 2020 | Cyber security, News and Events

We’re delighted to announce that Reliance acsn has become the first company in the cyber security sector to be awarded the APS Investor in Sales award. The award measures the ethical sales standards of each individual, and the Reliance acsn team achieved a remarkable 100% pass rate in the assessment examination. The Association of Professional [...]