Introducing the Mitigating Malware and Preventing Lateral Movement Guidance
Last year, following the global WannaCry incident in May 2017, the NCSC published…
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Apple Downplays Impact of iBoot Source Code Leak
Apple said the leak of its iBoot source code will have little…
Insurance Customers’ Personal Data Exposed Due to Misconfigured NAS Server
The vulnerability also exposed login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database,…
Gojdue Variant Eludes Microsoft, Google Cloud Protection, Researchers Say
Researchers have identified a new ransomware strain that went undetected by built-in malware…
Introducing new guidance on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
To help you decide on your approach to using a VPN for remote access, we have just released our new VPN guidance. We know many of you struggle with the multitude of configuration options and products available when making decisions on VPN use, and we’ve received questions on Twitter too. So we’ve taken the opportunity to add to […]
Hotspot Shield Vulnerability Could Reveal ‘Juicy’ Info About Users, Researcher Claims
Hotspot Shield has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to its…
Cisco Issues New Patches for Critical Firewall Software Vulnerability
The vulnerability has a CVSS base score of 10.0, the highest possible, and…
Announcing the NCSC’s new Phishing Guidance
I’m delighted to announce the publication today of our new guidance, Phishing Attacks: Defending…
Research into dealing with weak domain passwords
Update We are no longer looking for participants for this study, but we…
Active Cyber Defence – one year on
In November 2016, just after the NCSC formally came into existence, and as…