NCSC Cyber Action Plan emphasises SME security
NCSC self-assessment tool launched to help sole traders and micro-businesses tackle their cyber security challenges
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has today launched a digital cyber security self-assessment service for sole traders and micro-businesses to help the UK’s smallest businesses securely navigate the digital world.
The Cyber Action Plan forms part of the government’s wider Cyber Aware campaign, and in light of government statistics that show 46% of such organisations fell victim to security breaches or cyber attacks in the past 12 months, up from 31% in the prior year, it is much needed.
Cyber extortionist threatened to bomb NHS targets
A German court has convicted a 33-year-old Italian man for making extortion and bomb threats against NHS hospitals at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic’s first wave last year
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A German court has convicted a 33-year-old Italian man for making cyber extortion and bomb threats against the NHS at the height of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, following an international investigation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
Emil Apreda was sentenced to three years following his conviction at Berlin’s District Criminal Court. He has been released on bail until the court’s decision has been ratified.
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Here s why the internet crashes thousands of times a year
Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020
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In 2017 alone, there were about 14,000 incidents which caused millions of websites worldwide to go offline
Analysis: the internet is currently a cyber Wild West, but its outlaw days may be slowly coming to an end
How could a small internet service provider (ISP) in Pennsylvania cause millions of websites worldwide to go offline? That’s what happened on June 24th 2019 when users across the world were left unable to access a large fraction of the web. The root cause was an outage suffered by Cloudflare, one of the internet’s leading content hosts on which the affected websites relied.