UK: NHS TO LAUNCH £20M CYBER SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER

In the recent years, most developed countries are investing significantly in cyber defence & attack capabilities. The NHS is now spending £20m to set up a security operations centre that will oversee the health service's digital defences.

Among others, NHS will employ "ethical hackers" to look for weaknesses in health computer networks, not just react to breaches – Such hackers use the same tactics seen in cyber-attacks to help organisations spot weak points.

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UPDATES: The UK's Information Commissioner's Office states that organisations must take "appropriate" security measures to protect personal data and consider notifying the individuals concerned if there is a breach.

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In May, one-third of UK health trusts were hit by the WannaCry worm, which demanded cash to unlock infected PCs.

In a statement, Dan Taylor, head of the data security centre at NHS Digital, said the centre would create and run a "near-real-time monitoring and alerting service that covers the whole health and care system".

UKUAJI WA MATUMIZI YA TEHAMA WAONGEZA UHALIFU MTANDAO

Mataifa mengi yameendelea kuwekeza katika sekta ya TEHAMA ili kurahisisha huduma mbali mbali kwa jamii za mataifa husika – Ikiwa ni pamoja na mawasiliano, huduma za Afya, kifedha na hata usafirishaji ambapo TEHAMA imekua ikitumika kwa kiwango cha juu zaidi tofauti na miaka iliyopita.

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UPDATE: Apple has addressed a glitch that caused some iPhones to unexpectedly start auto-correcting the letter "i" to a capital "A" and a question mark.

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Kuwepo na Kinacho tambulika kama “Internet of things (IoT)” ambapo kimsingi ni kila kitu kitakua kimeunganishwa kwenye mtandao kunapelekea kuendelea kukua kwa uhalifu mtandao ambapo madhara yake yanategemewa kua makubwa zaidi ya ilivyo zoeleka.

Katika kipindi cha mwaka 2016/2017 Tumeshuhudia matukio kadhaa ya kihalifu mtandao ambapo mataifa mengi yamejikuta katika hasara kubwa kutokana na mashambulizi mtandao.

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NEWS UPDATE: A group of researchers and private industry experts, along with DHS officials, remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane owned by the DHS that was parked at the airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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ESTONIA: CYBER THREAT FORCES ONLINE GOVERNMENT SERVICES LOCK-DOWN

Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas.

Estonian Government plans to block citizens from accessing online government services from Saturday (04 – Nov – 2017) while it works to fix a security flaw.

A problem with the country's national identity cards was identified earlier this year, affecting 760,000 people.

The flaw could let attackers decrypt private data or impersonate citizens.

Those who have not had their cards updated with new security certificates will no longer be able to use them to access some services from midnight.

Estonia's digital ID system lets citizens access government and some private services such as medical records, voting and banking.

But security researchers found the encryption used in the ID cards was easily cracked which could, if exploited, let attackers impersonate people.