UK IoT job openings grow by 14% especially in data security

Earlier this year, Wired magazine proclaimed 2017 to be the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) would die. The security risks, hacking scandals and lack of useful technology meant that the connectivity hype would come to an end, they said. To test this view, job meta-search engine To test this view, job meta-search engine […]

U.N. survey finds cybersecurity gaps many countries except Singapore

Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defenses and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done, a U.N. survey showed on Wednesday. Wealth breeds cybercrime, but it does not automatically generate cybersecurity, so governments need to make sure they are prepared, the […]

Germany big target of cyber espionage and attacks: government report

Germany is a big target of spying and cyber attacks by foreign governments such as Turkey, Russia and China, a government report said on Tuesday, warning of “ticking time bombs” that could sabotage critical infrastructure. Industrial espionage costs German industry billions of euros each year, with small- and medium-sized businesses often the biggest losers, the […]

Maersk brings all major IT systems back online after cyber attack

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk said it has restored its major applications, as it brings its IT systems back online after being hit by a major cyber attack last week. “Today we can finally reopen our key applications,” Maersk said in a statement on Monday. The company, which handles one in seven containers shipped globally, […]

Tech giants join forces against terror content

US tech giants, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have on Monday, launch an anti-terror partnership aimed at thwarting the spread of extremist content online. The “Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism” intends to share engineering, research and knowledge to help “continue to make our hosted consumer services hostile to terrorists and violent extremists,” the companies […]

Nigeria, Zambia top countries prone to cyber attacks in the world – Global threat report  

Five African countries including Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi and South Africa have been identified as having the highest risk profile globally in terms of cyber attacks, according to a global threat index report released Monday by Check Point Software Technologies. The report indicated that Africa features significantly in the latest Global Threat Impact Index released […]

Facebook launches initiative in the UK to counter online extremism

Facebook Inc is launching a UK programme to train and fund local organizations to combat extremist material online, as internet companies attempt to clamp down on hate speech and violent content on their services, Reuters reports. Facebook, which outlined new efforts to remove extremist and terrorism content from its social media platform last week, will […]

Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets

Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. Russian authorities are asking Western tech companies to allow them […]