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China accuses US of trying to block industrial development using "political means"
•Huawei said that “cybersecurity is an issue which needs to be addressed across the whole industry.”
Coordinated cyber attack could cause up to $193 billion worth of damage: report
•Insurance claims after such an attack may range from cyber extortion to incident response costs.
Apple tells Congress that it found no signs of tampering with its microchips
•Stathakopoulos repeated Apple’s press statements that it never found malicious chips in any server.
Britain accuses Russia of allegedly directing a host of cyber attacks globally
•Russian military intelligence (GRU) was cast as a pernicious cyber aggressor using a network of hackers.
UK accuses Russia of directing a host of cyber attacks against the west
•GRU, Britain said, was almost certainly behind the BadRabbit and World Anti-Doping Agency attacks of 2017
US and Britain blame Russia for launching cyber attacks on government agencies and businesses globally
•Moscow has denied previous accusations that it carried out cyber attacks on the United States and other countries.
British cybersecurity centre has discovered a severe flaw that may affect Windows systems
Ians •The security flaw is described as a remote code execution bug that would allow an attack to take full control of an unpatched system
Intelligent assessment suggests Iran was behind June cyber attack on British lawmakers
•The Times said that the attack was Iran’s first significant cyber attack on a British target after the hack was initially blamed on Russia.
Britain's spy agency affirms protection from cyber crime is as important as defense against terrorism
•The National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, dealt with almost 600 significant incidents which required a nationwide, coordinated response.
Executives of the biggest businesses in Britain are not trained to deal with cyber attacks: Report
Ians •Two thirds of bosses in Britain's biggest businesses are not trained to deal with cyber attack, a government report revealed on Monday.