Category: Cyber

An Edinburgh event next month will seek to help Scottish organisations navigate the emerging risks of AI to their cybersecurity defences. The September 1st ‘Sword and the Shield: AI and...

Around 300 staff at Scotland’s prosecution service have had their personal work details exposed online in a third party data breach. The breach occurred after Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal...

The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland has launched a new security testing service designed to help organisations spot the ‘hidden’ risks of AI chatbots. The AI and Web Application...

The UK Government’s Department for Education and a police national legal database have been targeted in an online hack by a new cyber gang. ExfilSquad has claimed responsibility for a...

The UK Government’s national online security agency is to harness agentic AI to defend against autonomously generated cyber attacks targeting national infrastructure. Experts at the National Cyber Security Centre are...

Cybercrime remained broadly flat in Scotland last year – up by 80 reported crimes, or 1 per cent – but incidents are still ‘significantly above’ pre-pandemic levels, according to a...

The UK Government today announced a series of new technical measures targeting Russia-linked cryptocurrency exchanges – in a bid to prevent sanctions evasion. Ministers said they would go after the...

A new ‘virtual CISO’ – chief information security officer – service has been launched to help Scottish businesses protect themselves online. Social enterprise Cyber & Fraud Centre Scotland launched the...

Britain’s top cyber agency is urging members of the public to replace password logins with a more secure ‘passkey’ system to access online services. Security chiefs at the National Cyber...