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Zscaler partner content: UK public sector cyber resilience becomes a board-level priority amid DSIT scrapping and policy change

This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…

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UK school reader anecdote: weak six-character passwords and shared 'letmein' credential persisted after ransomware attack

A Register "On Call" column recounts a reader's account (pseudonym Daniel) of joining a UK school in 2020, after the school's network had been taken offline for three months by ransomware. Recovery relied on external contractors and a months-old backup. His audit found a password policy of six letters with no complexity or expiry, and use…

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Historic US Air Force practice of using locally bought USB drives across classified systems exposed military to Agent.BTZ-style malware

In a PWNED column, SolarWinds CISO Justin Henkel, a former US Air Force IT security specialist, recounts that in the early 2000s pilots and mission planners moved mission data between unclassified and classified systems using CDs and later USB thumb drives. Personnel often bought the drives from local vendors, for example in Kabul, rather…