Philip Hammond added that hostile “foreign actors” were developing techniques that threaten the country’s electrical grid and airports. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37821867

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and what better way to demonstrate awareness than by announcing that over 140 million records were leaked in October (and that’s just the ones we know about)? Read more: http://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/list-of-data-breaches-and-cyber-attacks-in-october-2016-142160000-records-leaked/

Here are this month’s data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breach Florida Bar Association hacked, members’ data leaked 6.6 million plaintext passwords exposed as site gets hacked to the bone Russian hackers leak Simone Biles and Serena Williams files Russian internet giant Rambler.ru hacked, leaking 98 million accounts Login details for 800,000 Brazzers users leaked […]

HACKERS struggling to ­infiltrate bigger, tech-savvy and cashed-up businesses are looking to breach the security of the small end of town, a data protection company has warned. IT security company ­Tesserent says it has noticed “a strong trend towards ­attacks on smaller companies, particularly over the past year or two”. Tesserent spokesman Kurt Hansen said it […]