The UK has been at the forefront of the global gambling industry for nearly two decades, passing laws to regulate remote gaming as early as 2005.
It also has the largest regulated online gambling marketing in the world, generating a total gross gambling yield (GGY) of £15.1 billion in the period between April 2022 and March 2023.
The UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) consists of the most important systems in the country – responsible for keeping the economy functioning and supplying services to homes and businesses.
Recent changes in the geopolitical environment, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, the rise of state-aligned groups around the globe and an increase in aggressive cyber activity, means the threat status for the UK’s CNI has heightened.
Phishing affects everyone but the Legal Sector is more attractive for cyber criminals due to the nature of the business, indeed the 32nd annual PwC Annual Law Firms’ Survey 2023 revealed that 85 per cent of the UK’s Top 100 firms are extremely, or somewhat, concerned about cyber threats.
Reputation is critical to the business of law, which makes legal practices attractive targets for extortion. The Legal Sector is additionally more vulnerable because of the amount of highly sensitive information businesses carry, as well as the large volumes of money they can be dealing with. This makes organisations in the sector especially targeted by phishing attacks.
The UK reached its highest level of ransomware attacks in 2022 according to figures available from the Information Commission’s Office – at 34% of all reported cybercrime.
Criminals compromised data on potentially more than 5.3 million people from over 700 organisations according to the Data security incident trends report released by the ICO, covering the period up to Q3 2023.
The UK reached its highest level of ransomware attacks in 2022 according to figures available from the Information Commission’s Office – at 34% of all reported cybercrime.
Criminals compromised data on potentially more than 5.3 million people from over 700 organisations according to the Data security incident trends report released by the ICO, covering the period up to Q3 2023.
One of the biggest takeaways from the UK AI Summit was the signing of a declaration establishing a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier AI.
Almost 30 countries, including the UK, the US, Australia and China, along with the European Union, signed the Bletchley Declaration, which recognises the need for governments to work together to meet the most significant AI challenges.
One of the easiest ways attackers can access your system is through the use of phishing scams and it’s something you need to monitor.
Essentially, phishing is when attackers attempt to trick users into “doing the wrong thing”.
This can take the form of encouraging them to click a “bad link” that downloads malware to their device, or by directing them to a dodgy website, or through trying to gain information for later scams or fraudulent attacks.
Veracity Trust Network’s CEO is heading to Europe for two cyber related events later this month.
Nigel Bridges will be representing VTN at the CEE Cyber Security Forum being held at The British Embassy in Vienna on November 21 and 22nd, hosted by the Department for Business and Trade and the British Ambassador in Vienna.
Nigel will then travel to Helsinki to visit Slush 23 on November 30th and December 1st as part of the Plexal Cyber Runway Scale programme funded by DSIT.
Veracity Trust Network’s CTO Stewart Boutcher has been in Singapore and Malaysia as part of a UK Trade Delegation attending GovWare.
GovWare, the Asian region’s premier cybersecurity information and connectivity platform, offers multi-channel touchpoints to drive community intel sharing, training and strategic collaborations and takes place alongside Singapore International Cyber Week.
Cyber security protection needn’t be a daunting challenge for any business but it’s certainly one all should be getting to grips with.
The recent exposure of vulnerabilities at the BBC, British Airways, Aer Lingus, Boots the Chemist, and others demonstrated that even the largest organisations can still become victims of cyber crime.
The rise in cyber attacks could make them uninsurable according to the head of one of Europe’s biggest insurance companies Zurich.
Mario Greco, CEO at the Swiss-based company, told the Financial Times that cyber attacks, rather than natural disasters, would become uninsurable if the disruption from hacks continues to rise.
Bots can cause multiple types of damage to your brand’s website and – by extension – your company reputation.
Misinformation is one of the many ways bots cause issues worldwide and, while you may think your brand is safe from that type of attack, the technology used to create bots which spread false data can also be used to cripple legitimate businesses.
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