Blogs Admitting passwords are broken is a step forward A major tech security agency dropping rules for complex passwords is an admission of defeat. It’s about time, says Jason Walsh 27 Sep
Pro Cyber security industry contributed €1.2bn to economy last year – report National cyber industry conference CINC 24 outlines sector growth target of doubling workforce by 2030 26 Sep
Trade Enterprise Ireland, National Cyber Security Centre offer security grants to SMEs Up to €3,000 available to review online security 25 Sep
Pro US authorities take down a Mirai-variant botnet tied to DDoS threat FBI-led operation to disrupt a China-linked botnet comes months after a similar operation in January linked to Volt Typhoon 19 Sep
Pro Microsoft, working with security partners, pledges better deployment, testing collaboration Review of CrowdStike incident forces rethink at Redmond 16 Sep
Pro Cyber attack on Iran’s banking system exposes sensitive data Experts dispute claims motivation was political over commercial 6 Sep
Radio A tough message for Telegram Anonymous messaging platform in the dock and the rest of the week's news 30 Aug
Pro Third of Irish business have paid a ransom in past year, says Expleo More than half of businesses have fallen victim to social engineering cyberattacks in the past year 23 Aug
Life Data protection complaint filed against European Parliament Brussels deals with own GDPR violation 22 Aug
Pro Manual techniques are fuelling ransomware attacks – report Organisations paid $460m in extortion demands to ransomware groups in first half of 2024 21 Aug
Pro Three lessons for maximising cyber security investments CIOs should learn to speak C-suite to secure better resources 21 Aug
Pro Microsoft mandates MFA for all Azure users Customers will have flexibility as to type of measures 20 Aug
Pro Personal e-mail accounts of US election campaign workers targeted in cyber attack APT42 targeted the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in May and June 16 Aug
Pro NCSC publishes cyber emergency plan Plan sets out national strategy for incidents affecting nationally important systems and networks 6 Aug
Pro Microsoft confirms Azure, 365 outage linked to DDoS attack Error in Redmond's security response may have compounded impact of cloud service outage 1 Aug
Pro Global data breach costs reach all-time high of $4.9m, IBM says Compromised credentials top attack vector and root cause of data breaches this year 31 Jul
Pro CrowdStrike blames global outage on buggy update Company vows to do better with improvements to testing and deployment 24 Jul
Pro Microsoft says less than 1% of its systems affected by CrowdStrike failure Faltering updates plagued security firm before Friday's crash 22 Jul
Blogs AT&T attack is the latest event in a devastating rolling cloud hack A breach at third party cloud provider has exposed data from millions of users, writes Jason Walsh 16 Jul
Pro Snowflake allows admins to enforce MFA as breach investigations conclude Report finds corporate and production assets were not compromised 11 Jul
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