Van de grote Nederlandse bedrijven was 39 procent in 2016 slachtoffer van een cyberaanval van buitenaf.

Het gaat in deze categorie om bedrijven met meer dan 250 medewerkers, maakt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) vrijdag bekend op basis van de Cybersecuritymonitor 2018.

Onder een cyberaanval valt onder meer een DDoS-aanval, waarbij een server wordt bestookt met enorme hoeveelheden dataverkeer. Ook gijzelsoftware (malafide software die bestanden versleutelt en losgeld eist) en phishing (pogingen om via e-mail inloggegevens of andere informatie te verkrijgen) worden tot dit soort incidenten gerekend.

Het Europese Hof van Justitie heeft bepaald dat downloaders die zich schuldig maken aan piraterij niet de aansprakelijkheid voor auteursrechtinbreuk kunnen ontlopen door te stellen dat ook andere gezinsleden of huisgenoten toegang hebben tot dezelfde internetverbinding.

Het Hof neemt naar aanleiding van vragen van een rechter in een Duitse zaak, waarbij een uitgeverij een man aansprakelijk stelde voor het illegaal delen van een audioboek. De Duitse rechter bepaalde dat de man niet aansprakelijk was, omdat hij beweerde dat ook zijn ouders toegang hadden tot dezelfde internetverbinding waarmee het audioboek online kwam.

Dit argument was volgens de Duitse rechter voldoende om aansprakelijkheid te ontlopen, vanwege het recht op privacy. Het Europese Hof gaat hier echter niet in mee.

Facebook Inc has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The people behind the attack were a group of Facebook and Instagram spammers that present themselves as a digital marketing company, and whose activities were previously known to Facebook’s security team, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the company's internal investigation.

Last week, Facebook said that cyber attackers had stolen data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, adding that the data theft had hit fewer than the 50 million profiles it initially reported.

The Q3 Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report is designed to uncover the full picture of what is going on in the cybercrime landscape, delivering a report that provides insights and statistics from July through September 2018.

The report found that cryptomining increased in both Australia and New Zealand in Q3, each reaching the highest rate of detection for the year. Australian cases of cryptomining increased by 36.37% to 194,282 cases, while New Zealand cases increased by 644.50% on Q2 results to reach 79,851 cases in Q3.

The Malwarebytes report found that Australian and New Zealand markets differ significantly in relation to Backdoor, Adware and Anomalous malware detections.

Researchers at Black Hat Europe will detail denial-of-service and other flaws in MQTT, CoAP machine-to-machine communications protocols that imperil industrial and other IoT networks online.

Security researcher Federico Maggi had been collecting data – some of it sensitive in nature – from hundreds of thousands of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) servers he found sitting wide open on the public Internet via Shodan. "I would probe them and listen for 10 seconds or so, and just collect data from them," he says.

He found data on sensors and other devices sitting in manufacturing and automotive networks, for instance, as well as typical consumer Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets.

Given the track record of project failures in NHS IT, some might say that Matt Hancock - former Minister for Fun who now runs the Department of Health - is marching with ill-founded confidence towards what he describes as a “tech revolution”.

A little bit of knowledge - Hancock once coded an app criticised for flouting data privacy regs he used to tout in his day job - in the wrong hands can be a dangerous thing.

“The tech revolution is coming to the NHS,” he boldly claimed yesterday, as he outlined his “vision” to erect a modern tech architecture that will provide the basis for a new generation of digital services.

Gartner analysts explore the IAM trends for which IT leaders should be prepared.

The growing scope and complexity of modern identity environments is becoming too difficult to manage in the usual ways, requiring IT leaders to evolve their identity and access management (IAM) environments.

Ahead of Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit 2018, Smarter With Gartner reached out to experts presenting at the event to ask them what the upcoming IAM trends are and how IT leaders should prepare.

The growth of global internet access has slowed dramatically over the past decade, meaning opportunities afforded by the digital revolution will remain out of reach for billions of the world’s poorest and most isolated people.

Analysis of UN data to be published in a report next month but shared with The Guardian, shows the rate at which the world is getting online has fall sharply since 2015.

Looking further back over the past ten years, the Web Foundation, established by world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, found growth in global internet access has dropped from 19% in 2007 to less than 6% last year.