Category: Cyber

A new cyber organisation set up to ‘streamline the flow information’ available to businesses to protect themselves from online harms has appointed its first chair. Jude McCorry, chief executive of…

A Scottish social care organisation that provides services to the homeless has fallen victim to a “sickening” cyber attack that has seen thousands of its files – including the personal…

SBRC updates Exercise in a Box workshops with a new ‘phishing attack’ scenario

A platform for sharing cyber threat intelligence between industry and government in the UK – run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – is undergoing a revamp. The Cyber Security…

A penetration testing toolkit used by industry was adapted for use in the recent ransomware attack on a Scottish university, cyber security professionals have confirmed. Cobalt Strike, used commonly by…

Police and national cyber experts are investigating after a Scottish university – which had thousands of leaked email addresses, passwords and ‘compromised accounts’ posted on the dark web – fell…

CyberScotland Week, which ran virtually from 22 to 28 February 2021, brought together over 90 organisations and 140 unique events, to educate, inform and support cyber resilience in Scotland. The…