The UK authorities took down over 700,000 malicious and phishing sites last year, a huge increase from 2019, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The GCHQ body revealed the figures in its annual Active Cyber Defence (ACD) report. ACD is the NCSC’s four-year-old strategy to protect the public sector and, where possible, a broader audience. It does so via a toolkit of around 14 initiatives, headed by the Takedown Service, which involves finding and…

The US and UK governments have released new information on the current tactics of Russian cyber-spies, including 11 vulnerabilities dating back to 2018 that are being used for initial access. The new report, Further TTPs associated with SVR cyber actors, was released by the UK’s National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency and FBI. It updates readers on the activities of the Russian Foreign Intelligence…

The US government has been forced to issue emergency legislation after a ransomware attack knocked offline the country’s largest fuel pipeline. Colonial Pipeline confirmed over the weekend that it had suffered a serious cyber-attack. “Quickly after learning of the attack, Colonial proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat. These actions temporarily halted all pipeline operations and affected some of our IT systems, which we are actively in the process of restoring,” it said in…

News Detail Partners Honored for Delivering Top Performance and Noteworthy Impact During Unprecedented Year PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced the winners of the VMware 2021 Partner Achievement Awards to honor select partners for extraordinary achievements aligned to key business priorities. The annual VMware Partner … Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 Partners Honored for Delivering Top Performance and Noteworthy Impact During Unprecedented Year PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS…

Unique partnership and integration foster ongoing innovation for communication monitoring Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, and Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading security and compliance company, today announced a partnership to integrate Proofpoint’s next-generation Enterprise Archiving and Compliance with Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform Relativity Trace. The Relativity Trace and Proofpoint partnership helps ensure customers can manage surveillance data within one single source of truth with a secure, best-in-class archiving and compliance…