Cyber Essentials: are there any alternative standards? – NCSC Blog
Can an equivalent cyber security standard deliver the same outcomes as the NCSC’s Cyber Essentials scheme? – Read More
October 2024
Kevin Harris appointed as CIO of Ashurst – Legal IT Insider
Kevin Harris has been appointed as chief information officer at Ashurst. He was previously CIO for EMEA at Norton Rose Fulbright. Ashurst said today (29th October) that Harris’s extensive background…
5 cybersecurity issues at stake in next week’s US election – CSO Online
As the US heads into a historic election, with a deadlocked electorate facing a choice between two radically different presidential candidates, several cybersecurity matters could be determined by who wins…
Statement on ICO’s work to protect children online – ICO News
Children see sharing their personal information online as necessary to avoid social exclusion, our new research has found. – Read More
SRA “should have done more” to prevent Axiom Ince, says LSB report – Legal Futures
The SRA “did not take all the steps it could or should have taken” ahead of the collapse of Axiom Ince, the review commissioned by Legal Services Board declared today.…
Autumn budget: Further cuts to justice ‘untenable’, Law Society warns – Legal Cheek
Chancery Lane body says MoJ needs essential funding to address courts backlog The Law Society has warned that further cuts to the Ministry of Justice’s budget are “untenable” and would…
U.S. Government Issues New TLP Guidance for Cross-Sector Threat Intelligence Sharing – The Hacker News
The U.S. government (USG) has issued new guidance governing the use of the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) to handle the threat intelligence information shared between the private sector, individual researchers,…
Security outsourcing on the rise as CISOs seek cyber relief – CSO Online
Security software and services spending is growing faster than staffing budgets, recasting security leaders in the role of quantity surveyors rather than builders of enterprise security. Gartner predicts that security…
New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors – The Hacker News
More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible…
Anti-Mitarbeiterbindung: Was toxische CISOs anrichten – CSO Online
Toxische Führung kennt viele Ausformungen und kann drastische Konsequenzen nach sich ziehen – speziell im IT-Security-Umfeld. Foto: CNGPICTURES | shutterstock.com Für Keith, einen erfahrenen Cybersecurity-Profi aus New York City in…
New private equity player enters market by buying Midlands law firm – Legal Futures
Another private equity business has entered the legal market with a £30m pot to create a new group and has made Midlands firm FBC Manby Bowdler its first acquisition. The…
Leader of Essex coroner kidnap plot jailed for seven years – Legal Futures
The leader of a plot based on pseudo-legal ideas to kidnap the Senior Coroner for Essex has been jailed for seven years, and the three people who helped him for…
Conveyancers spend nearly half their time chasing people – Legal Futures
Conveyancers spend approaching half of their working day chasing other stakeholders or being chased by them, a report has found. The post Conveyancers spend nearly half their time chasing people…
Sophos-SecureWorks Deal Focuses on Building Advanced MDR, XDR Platform – Dark Reading
Sophos CEO Joe Levy says $859 million deal to acquire SecureWorks from majority owner Dell Technologies will put the Taegis platform — with network detection and response, vulnerability detection and…
Windows ‘Downdate’ Attack Reverts Patched PCs to a Vulnerable State – Dark Reading
Windows 11 machines remain open to downgrade attacks, where attackers can abuse the Windows Update process to revive a patched driver signature enforcement (DSE) bypass. – Read More