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Announcing the NCSC’s new Phishing Guidance

I’m delighted to announce the publication today of our new guidance, Phishing Attacks: Defending…

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Research into dealing with weak domain passwords

Update We are no longer looking for participants for this study, but we…

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Active Cyber Defence – one year on

In November 2016, just after the NCSC formally came into existence, and as…

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JenX Botnet Has Grand Theft Auto Hook

A GTA hosting site is offering powerful DDoS attacks for $20 a pop,…

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Crypto Miners May Be the ‘New Payload of Choice’ for Attackers

Crypto mining botnets provide a stealthy way to generate big bucks, without the…

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Massive Smominru Cryptocurrency Botnet Rakes In Millions

Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and…

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Updating our Factory Reset Guidance

We’ve just published new End User Devices Factory Reset Guidance on our website. We hope…

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Cisco Patches Critical VPN Vulnerability

Cisco Systems released a patch Monday to fix a critical security vulnerability, with…

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NCSC IT: How the NCSC built its own IT system

“When are you going to share the design of the NCSC IT system?”…

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