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Marine services giant Swire Pacific Offshore has suffered a Clop ransomware attack that allowed threat actors to steal company data. Swire Pacific Offshore discovered an unauthorized network infiltration onto its IT systems, resulting in the compromise of some employee data.

Interpol has coordinated the arrest of 1,003 individuals linked to various cyber-crimes such as romance scams, investment frauds, online money laundering, and illegal online gambling. On the financial aspect of the operation, the authorities have also intercepted nearly $27,000,000 and froze 2,350 banking accounts linked to various online crimes.

Following California’s lead, a new UK law would ban default passwords in IoT devices.

The CMA's claims come in the wake of yesterday's call by the UK's data watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, for Google and co to sort out the privacy risks posed by ads. In June the CMA consulted on initial commitments offered by Google and the feedback from third parties was... they needed a bit of work.

A company repeatedly endorsed by ministers backing the UK's Online Safety Bill was warned by its lawyers that its technology could breach the Investigatory Powers Act's ban on unlawful interception of communications, The Register can reveal. SafeToNet, a content-scanning startup whose product is aimed at parents and uses AI to monitor messages sent to and from children's online accounts, had to change its product after being warned that a feature developed for the government-approved app would break the law.

You'll be much better prepared to face them down if you have an in-depth understanding of how things have played out this year and what the finest minds in the sector expect the next 12 months to bring. With barely six weeks of this year left, how can you achieve this? By joining the Sophos Cybersecurity Summit 2021, on December 1, from 1000 GMT. This compact virtual conference will serve up seven in-depth sessions in just four hours from practitioners, analysts, and of course Sophos' own highly experienced staffers, all of whom have deep front-line experience against cyber-threats.

Boxcryptor protects business data in Microsoft Teams with end-to-end encryption features. Via the personal app, there is the possibility to access encrypted data in the personal OneDrive.

Threats to the supply chain can take many forms, including malware attacks, piracy, unauthorized access to enterprise resources and data, and unintentional or maliciously injected backdoors in software source code. This means putting security at the center of the supply chain and making it a foundational element.

AdvisorSmith released a study ranking 181 cities in the United States based on their attractiveness for cybersecurity professionals. Average salaries for IT security analysts in each of the cities.

An advanced persistent threat has been linked to cyberattacks on two biomanufacturing companies that occurred this year with the help of a custom malware loader called "Tardigrade." That's according to an advisory published by Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center this week, which noted that the malware is actively spreading across the sector with the likely goal of perpetrating intellectual property theft, maintaining persistence for extended periods of time, and infecting the systems with ransomware.