Blogs Security: the state of being free from danger or threat As cybersecurity budgets rise, is absolute security realistically achievable, asks Billy MacInnes 21 Dec
Blogs Security starts on the inside When we talk about cyber security we tend to concentrate on hacking over similarly effective inside jobs, says Jason Walsh 10 Nov
Pro Electric Ireland contacts thousands of customers amid data breach fears Account holders told contact company and banks separately 9 Nov
Life Microsoft marks end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with event for secondary school students More than 400 secondary school students from post primary schools visit CyberSchools Quest in Leopardstown 1 Nov
Blogs Banking on trouble A banking systems foul up is embarrassing, says Billy MacInnes. Two in a week is pushing it. 24 Aug
Blogs Safety at a premium as security market goes big Billy MacInnes asks why rising cyber security spending is something to celebrate 9 Aug
Blogs Government’s mass surveillance plan unlikely to hold up to EU scrutiny Ireland’s metadata retention regime is a curious move in light of the fact that the country is already angering its EU peers on the right to... 30 Jun
Blogs CEOs’ AI fixation an example of ‘shiny object syndrome’ Execs are bullish on AI but aren't too concerned about the consequences of using it, says Billy MacInnes 30 Jun
Radio Breaking the law The government swoops in for your data, and some good news from the Midlands ICT Cluster 30 Jun
Insights Half of Irish companies unprepared for ransomware attacks TechBeat survey results discussed at Zero Trust Summit 20 Jun
Trade E-mail security solutions provider Mesh raises €1.55m Forty new jobs to be created over four years on back of funding round 19 Jun
Pro AMTCE develops new national cyber security training programme to support industry 4.0 The suite of programmes aim to increase cyber security skills, public awareness, support job creation 16 Jun
Blogs Bad actors and the challenge of reinvention Security experts are constantly changing methods to defeat cybercriminals. Billy MacInnes wonders if it's actually the other way around 8 Jun
Pro Warning issued over ‘widespread’ exploitation of Zyxel NAS devices Zyxel has been forced to issue patches for several vulnerabilities affecting NAS devices 2 Jun
Pro Rubrik announces industry’s first advanced user intelligence on Rubrik security cloud New solution leverages Rubrik's Time Series Data and Metadata architecture 17 May
Pro Vyta targets additional €1.5m in revenues after new security accreditation ADISA ICT Asset Recovery Standard 8.0 enables Vyta to offer services to companies with critically sensitive data 20 Apr
Blogs Cybersecurity is not a game A new EU research report has called for a common approach to cybersecurity. Sadly, it suggests remedying this with ‘gamification’, laments Jason... 20 Apr
Blogs Getting to grips with post-breach stress disorder Data is not the only thing compromised during a security event, Billy MacInnes finds your wellbeing is also at risk 19 Apr
Insights IT leaders suffering from trust issues over cyber security Results to be discussed at Zero Trust Summit on 11 May 17 Apr
Pro IBM report finds ransomware persisted in 2022 despite improved detection Rate of monthly thread jacking attempts up 100% year-on-year 22 Feb
Life Microsoft’s ‘unusually large’ Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited zero day, 11 critical vulnerabilities The company has issued fixes for 98 total vulnerabilities - a total nearly double that of December 11 Jan
Life Apple steps up user security with end-to-end encryption for iCloud Apple’s new data protection feature comes as users contend with an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape 9 Dec
Pro Lenovo patches ThinkPad, Yoga, IdeaPad UEFI secure boot vulnerability Mistakenly used drivers could allow hackers to modify the secure boot process 11 Nov
Pro Half of Irish SMEs have had data lost or stolen because of employees with privileged access 82% of SME owners believe that overprivileged users are a threat to their business 8 Nov
Pro Thousands of Microsoft customer records found on a public server The tech giant claims security researchers have greatly exaggerated the scope of the issue 21 Oct
Pro Ransomware activity down 11% worldwide in Q3, but rise expected LockBit increased its share of the landscape even as attacks declined, while new groups have capitalised on the fall of Conti 21 Oct
Pro Software Delivery Shield is Google Cloud’s answer to the software supply chain security crisis The new suite offers developers a range of new security insights, driven in part by recently acquired tech 11 Oct
Pro Toyota discovers five-year-old e-mail leak, customers at risk of phishing attacks Security experts have said the company has no way of knowing whether the e-mails were accessed 11 Oct
Life Meta notifies around 1m Facebook users of potential compromise through malicious apps The vast majority of apps targeting iOS users appeared to be genuine apps for managing business functions such as advertising and analytics 10 Oct
Pro Hacker steals $566m from Binance Bridge using proof-forgery exploit An exploit discovered in the exchange platform's proof verifier let the hacker take 2m BNB without raising alarm bells 7 Oct
Pro China cracks down on citizens’ anti-censorship tools with Great Firewall upgrades This new discovery comes a week before a predicted major reshuffle of leadership in the Chinese Communist Party 7 Oct
Pro Canadian Netwalker ransomware affiliate faces 20 years in prison and $21.5m fine Hacker arrested in Quebec after a search revealed 719 Bitcoin and hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars believed to be stolen funds 6 Oct
Pro Microsoft to end Client Access Rules support in Exchange Online by 2023 The deprecation process will begin as early as October 2022, according to reports 30 Sep
Trade One-quarter of Irish SMEs have paid multiple ransoms to cybercriminals Average cost of each ransom paid is €22,773 26 Sep
Pro Fifteen-year-old vulnerability found in Python module Hundreds of thousands of repositories have been found to be exposed to the vulnerability 22 Sep
Pro Uber hacked via basic smishing attack The self-taught hacker impersonated an IT worker to gain an Uber employee's password, obtaining broad access to internal systems and posting taunting... 16 Sep
Pro Three critical vulnerabilities and one zero-day feature in Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday Several issues in the monthly update require 'urgent' attention but September's Patch Tuesday only brings around half the fixes that came in August 14 Sep
Pro Patreon confirms it ‘parted ways’ with its ‘entire’ cyber security team The membership platform for online content creators said it will now outsource its security needs 12 Sep
Pro Portugal government cyber attack allegedly leaks “hundreds” of classified NATO documents Reports suggest classified files were lifted by specially designed bots and have now been found for sale online 8 Sep
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