Cyber Espionage

Economic and industrial espionage are significant issues for many organisations, with episodes causing billions of pounds of economic damage to countries around the world. Figures on the costs vary significantly, but it’s clear the losses are staggering and, in the US alone, have ranged from $2…

PwC’s cyber security practice has worked closely with BAE Systems and other members of the security community – including the UK’s newly-established National Cyber Security Centre – to uncover and disrupt what’s thought to be one of the largest-ever sustained global cyber espionage campaigns. Since late 2016, when…

Esoteric, the global counterespionage and electronic bug sweeping company, has just announced that, in the wake of a thorough and audited review of its information systems and processes, the business has been awarded Cyber Essentials certification by IASME. Accreditation demonstrates the company’s commitment to information…

CSARN (City Security and Resilience Networks) reports that Iranian cyber espionage groups have been linked to a large-scale and sophisticated campaign targeting members of the nation’s diaspora and at least one Western-based activist, with the tactics used reflecting the threat to UK businesses posed by…

Scanning the latest Information Security Breaches Survey1, it would seem that 90% of large-scale organisations and 74% of smaller businesses have suffered some form of cyber security breach. On that basis, becoming a cyber security victim seems a near certainty for many. Paul Heffernan offers some…

The “world’s first intensive cyber boot camp” has been launched to quickly deliver a new band of highly-trained online defenders who can take up the growing number of cyber security roles organisations are struggling to fill. The SANS Cyber Academy has been created in response…

Verizon’s 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that cyber attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. However, many cyber criminals are still relying on decades-old techniques such as phishing and hacking. According to this year’s report, the bulk of cyber attacks (70% of them, in fact) use a combination…

GFI Software has released the findings of an independent study examining the business and social impacts of cyber security issues. The results reveal stark public concerns over the increasing personal and business risks posed by cyber crime, and the growing likelihood that acts of cyber criminality…