The government has issued a call-to-arms to the UK’s burgeoning cybersecurity startups to help it defend the country from malicious online activity. GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) used the Cheltenham Science Festival on Friday to launch NCSC for Startups. The new program will invite applications from UK startups to develop products designed to defend critical areas of the economy and society. It’s the successor to the NCSC Cyber Accelerator, a program that reportedly helped…

G7 leaders confirmed their commitment to urgently tackling ransomware on Sunday, as a senior British security chief will warn today that cyber-criminals represent a more significant threat than state-sponsored espionage. The Carbis Bay communique, published after a three-day summit of world leaders in Cornwall, singled Russia out by name — urging Vladimir Putin to “identify, disrupt and hold to account” cyber-criminals operating from the country. “We commit to work together to urgently address the escalating…

A global policing operation has led to the closure of over 110,000 websites and online marketplaces selling fake pharmaceuticals, according to the international organization Interpol. The organization said that Operation Pangea XIV involved law enforcement, customs and regulatory officers from 92 countries. As well as the removal of 113,020 fake sites — the largest number since the long-running operation began in 2008 — counterfeit medicines and COVID-19 testing kits were seized after raids and checks on…

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the concept that the most vulnerable people on the internet are our senior population. According to the FBI, elder fraud impacts millions of American seniors every year. Figures from the United Kingdom show similar levels of criminal activity targeting seniors. Most of the elder fraud schemes are financially driven, targeting those who most likely have a secure and readily available source of income such as retirement accounts, pensions, and…

If you are new to the security world, it is fair to ask yourself, “Isn’t access to data and systems always conditional? Isn’t it always granted to someone who has access to the credentials (ID and password)?” True enough, but in totality, the approach to managing access encompasses a broader spectrum of privacy policies. These policies include a mix of different strategies that can be applied based on an organization’s security vulnerabilities. Conditional access is…

As organisations start to consider life after COVID-19, they’ll realise that it’s not as simple as putting everything back the way it was in the Before Times. That ship has sailed. There have simply been too many benefits to remote working for organisations to demand a return to office life on a full-time basis. Indeed, a Gartner survey found that 47% of organisations will give employees the choice of working remotely full-time once the pandemic…

Special Meeting of Stockholders to Vote on Pending Acquisition by Thoma Bravo to be Scheduled for Later Date Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced its Board of Directors has cancelled the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for June 15, 2021. This follows the previously announced definitive agreement, pursuant to which Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, will acquire…