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    UK’s Cybersecurity Sector Now Worth £8.3 Billion, But Is a Skills Gap Looming?

    2020-01-30

    CBR: The UK’s cybersecurity sector is now estimated to be worth more than £8.3 billion, a significant rise of 46 percent from £5.7 billion in 2017, but a skills gap could be a major disrupter in the coming years.

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    NFL Twitter Accounts Hacked, Including Those of Super Bowl-bound Chiefs and 49ers

    2020-01-27

    NBC News: OurMine, a Saudi hacking account that promotes its own cybersecurity services, said it hacked a number of the league's accounts on its Twitter page. The first team to be exposed appeared to be the Chicago Bears.

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    Hackers Acting in Turkey's Interests Believed to Be Behind Recent Cyberattacks

    2020-01-27

    Reuters: Sweeping cyberattacks targeting governments and other organizations in Europe and the Middle East are believed to be the work of hackers acting in the interests of the Turkish government, three senior Western security officials said.

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    Greek Top Court Approves Extradition of Cybercrime Suspect

    2020-01-23

    Reuters: Greece’s top administrative court has ruled in favor of extraditing to France a Russian man suspected of laundering billions of dollars in digital currency, a judicial official said.

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    Cybercrime Laws Need Urgent Reform to Protect UK

    2020-01-22

    The Guardian: Britain’s cyber-defences are being endangered by the outdated Computer Misuse Act, which prevents investigators from dealing effectively with online threats while over-punishing immature defendants, according to a legal report.

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    Dubai Financial Services Authority Supports National Cybersecurity Strategy by Launching a Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

    2020-01-22

    Mondovisione: The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) launched the first financial regulator-led Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform (Platform) in the region in collaboration with the Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC), the National Computer Emergency Response Team for the UAE (aeCERT), the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) and the Open Source Threat Intelligence and Sharing Platform Project (MISP). 

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    Cybersecurity Startup Exits Total $11.3 Billion in 2013-2019

    2020-01-13

    The Times of Israel: There are 436 cybersecurity companies operating in Israel at various stages of development a new report by IVC Research Center, which tracks Israel’s tech industry, shows.

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    Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and HSBC All Hit by Travelex Cyber Attack

    2020-01-08

    Mirror: Some of the UK's biggest high street banks have been hit by a cyber attack on Travelex - with Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays among those left with no online travel money services.

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    London Stock Exchange Denies Cyber Attack as UK Probes Trading Outage

    2020-01-06

    City A.M.: A British intelligence agency contacted the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in the past two months to request additional information about the outage on 16 August, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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    UK Cyber Security Boss Ciaran Martin to Step Down

    2020-01-06

    Computer Weekly: Ciaran Martin, CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is to step down later in 2020 after nearly seven years in charge of the government’s cyber security efforts.

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