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The current state of the UK’s cyber threat landscape was outlined by Marsha Quallo-Wright, deputy director for critical national infrastructure at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), during a keynote address on the final day of Infosecurity Europe 2022. Quallo-Wright began by describing the cyber threats posed by nation-states, particularly Russia and China. She said that Russia remains “one of the world’s most prolific cyber actors and dedicates significant resources to conducting cyber operations across the globe.” However,…

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has warned the public about a spate of fake messages, sent out as SMS text messages, fraudulently telling recipients that they have been exposed to the Omicron variant of COVID-19. In a tweet, the NHS said that it had seen reports of text messages that claimed to come from the NHS, telling recipients that they had been in close contact with someone who had a confirmed COVID-19 infection, and…

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake. In a rush to own this term, many vendors have lost sight of the fact that the openness of a…

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB. Microsoft In fact, the total amount of data is expected to nearly triple by 2025. The cause is hybrid data…

The Avos ransomware threat actor has recently updated its tooling, not only using malicious software but also commercial products. Image: Yingyaipumi/Adobe Stock A new report from Cisco Talos Intelligence Group exposes new tools used in Avos ransomware attacks. Who is Avos? Avos is a ransomware group active since July 2021. The group follows the Ransomware as a Service business model, which means they provide ransomware services to different affiliates (Figure A). Figure A Image: Avos…

Heard of the sandwich generation? Well, if you’ve got a tribe of kids and parents who are aging then you are a fully-fledged member! And as members of this special club, not only do we need to manage and keep our offspring in check, but we also have to reserve some energy to help our parents navigate life’s challenges which of course includes the online world.  In the broadest sense, the sandwich generation is the…

Social engineering will drive a new generation of threats, as cyber and physical security converge. Criminal hackers will use keystroke loggers and USB sticks alongside IT-based attacks to gain access and information. And bad actors will always be on the lookout for human weaknesses. This was the message Jenny Radcliffe, The People Hacker, delivered to Infosecurity Europe 2022, as she was inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame. With over 30 years as a social…

Cybersecurity is at an inflection point. The move to remote working and the endpoint vulnerabilities that go with it are a permanent part of the new normal. There are multiple factors causing organizations to rethink their security strategies. For example, ransomware is now a successful business model for a new breed of smart, deep-pocketed bad actors. Also, it is difficult and costly to find and retain cybersecurity professionals with the expertise to protect enterprise data…