Category: Cyber

The security of NHS Highland’s website is “compromised” and redevelopment of the platform “cannot be deferred any longer” – raising fears of a cyberattack, it has emerged. The details came…

What can we do about cybercrime? It cannot be left to either individual organisations or national governments, says Admiral Michael S. Rogers, former head of the US National Security Agency…

Scotland’s environment agency has been warned that £42m in contracts income for its regulatory work cannot be “substantiated” following a devastating cyberattack. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has been…

The National Cyber Security Centre has issued urgent guidance to organisations to bolster their cyber defences in response to the geopolitical instability in and around Ukraine. The monitoring agency –…

The chief executive of an organisation hit last year by cybercrime has said they are too fearful of speaking openly about the attack – in case legal firms hound them…

A new dataset developed by Edinburgh researchers is to help in the fight against the global scourge of ransomware. Cybersecurity experts at Edinburgh Napier university have built the NapierOne platform…

A new national cyber plan is calling on ‘all parts of society’ to boost the UK’s global economic and security strengths in cyberspace. The cross-departmental National Cyber Strategy is an…

Scotland’s new online resilience partnership has identified six cyber threats that businesses may face in 2022. The CyberScotland Partnership, chaired by Jude McCorry, chief executive of the Scottish Business Resilience…