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The growth of the internet has impacted profoundly on everyday life and the global economy. It has evolved into a global, interconnected network of systems and information – cyberspace – that we know today, transforming the conduct of business and opening new markets.
Threats to cyber security are persistent and constantly evolving. With an ever-growing number of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, online commerce and the private sector worldwide, security experts are finding that their work has become a race against the attackers.
The Cyber Security Review is designed to draw on the combined knowledge, skills and expertise of the cyber security community to identify the emerging threats and facilitate the development of coherent policies and robust capabilities.
Our mission is to promote dialogue and provide a platform for information exchange and cooperation between stakeholders, industry, academia and security experts worldwide.
Latest news
- Cathay Pacific hack: Airline admits techies fought off cyber-siege for months
November 12, 2018
Fresh from belatedly admitting that 9.4 million passengers’ personal data was stolen by hackers, Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has now admitted that it was ...
- Cisco Accidentally Released Dirty Cow Exploit Code in Software
November 8, 2018
Cisco revealed that it had “inadvertently” shipped an in-house exploit code that was used in test scripts as part of its TelePresence Video Communication Server ...
- US Cyber Command starts uploading foreign APT malware to VirusTotal
November 8, 2018
On Monday, the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), a subordinate unit of US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), set in motion a new initiative through which the DOD would ...
- IoT security: Why it will get worse before it gets better
November 7, 2018
There are billions of connected devices in use around the world, in our homes, our offices, even inside our bodies as medical devices are connected ...
- Rapidly Growing Router Botnet Takes Advantage of 5-Year-Old Flaw
November 7, 2018
A sophisticated proxy code has infected hundreds of thousands of devices already. A fresh botnet is spreading across the landscape, targeting router equipment. So far, hundreds ...
- Healthcare Targeted by 37 Percent of All Ransomware Attacks in Q3 2018
November 7, 2018
During the third quarter of 2018 ransomware attacks were at an all-time high and the ransoms asked from organizations to decrypt the locked files were ...
- VirtualBox zero-day published by disgruntled researcher
November 7, 2018
A Russian security researcher has published details about a zero-day vulnerability affecting VirtualBox, an Oracle software application for running virtual machines. According to a text file ...
- Cloud, cars and IoT could change grid cybersecurity
November 6, 2018
The proliferation of connected devices including electric cars could provide grid operators with an operational view of cybersecurity threats and change the way the grid ...
- ‘Almost all’ Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head
November 6, 2018
In a shocking revelation, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing has said data from “almost all” Pakistani banks was stolen in ...
- HSBC discloses security incident
November 6, 2018
Banking giant HSBC disclosed on Monday a security incident that impacted an undisclosed number of the institution’s customers. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed ...
- Apache Struts Warns Users of Two-Year-Old Vulnerability
November 6, 2018
Users must update their vulnerable libraries manually. The Apache Software Foundation warned in an advisory that the latest version of the Commons FileUpload library is susceptible ...
- Hack the Air Force 3.0 Bug Bounty Announced by USAF
November 6, 2018
The Hack the Air Force 3.0 bug bounty program organized in collaboration with HackerOne has been announced by the U.S. Air Force to take place ...
- States activate National Guard cyber units for US midterm elections
November 5, 2018
At least three US states have activated and put National Guard cyber-security units on standby for midterm elections. The three states are Washington, Illinois, and, ...
- Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data
November 5, 2018
We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this ...
- Inception Group Uses POWERSHOWER Backdoor in Two-Stage Spear Phishing Attacks
November 5, 2018
The Inception threat group has been observed exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office memory corruption vulnerability and a PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed POWERSHOWER in their most recent ...
- New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
November 3, 2018
A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, ...
