Category: Cybersecurity

January 11, 2021

ASP.NET Core MVC 5 is a lightweight, open source, highly testable framework built on top of the ASP.NET Core 5 runtime and based on the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. Part of the new .NET 5, the ASP.NET Core MVC 5 framework […]

December 23, 2020

The internet, as life-changing as it can be for digitising businesses, connecting communities and informing individuals, doesn’t come with a user guide to help us navigate it. And as people become more aware of the dark side of the web, […]

December 21, 2020

Last week, news broke that IT management company SolarWinds had been hacked, possibly by the Russian government, and the US Treasury, Commerce, State, Energy, and Homeland Security departments have been affected — two of which may have had emails stolen […]

December 9, 2020

Microsoft has dropped an almost trivially sized update for the final Patch Tuesday of 2020 – in comparison to some of the behemoths seen this year – with fixes for a mere 58 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), but with […]

November 18, 2020

Chris Krebs, the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – America’s equivalent of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – has been dismissed by outgoing president Donald Trump, after his agency’s analysis of the 3 […]

September 28, 2020

The first weeks and months of the Covid-19 pandemic saw widespread global fear over the virus exploited by cyber criminals for malicious ends. Now, six months on, the relationship between the coronavirus and cyber security is transitioning as IT culture […]

September 17, 2020

The centralised datacentre or computer room has been slowly going out of fashion with the move to cloud computing and the buying in of different services from a variety of cloud-based suppliers – for example, email services from supplier A […]

July 20, 2020

A study from Forrester recently warned that IT security professionals are becoming increasingly concerned about the rise in cyber crime powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The study, commissioned by Darktrace, reported that close to 80% of cyber security decision-makers anticipate […]

July 14, 2020

The importance of automation is not being overestimated, but the capacity of machine learning (ML) and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) applications to achieve trustworthiness in automation is. To succeed with AI for automated cyber security, we need to […]

July 8, 2020

There was a time when security analysts trawled through packet capture and log files trying to identify and diagnose potential intrusions. Looking for a cyber attack within these log files was often likened to trying to find a needle in […]