A failure to react
A key part of producing this digest involves reading thousands of articles and tweets about cybersecurity every week, so we're confident in saying there is a seemingly unstoppable rise in cyber-related crime. Unfortunately, this rise isn't matched by an increase in people's awareness of online risks. This week, Europol’s 6th annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) warned that "cybercrime is maturing and becoming bolder" with ransomware remaining the top threat. Europol says combatting this trend can only be done holistically, "by combining prevention and awareness, and increasing cyber education and resilience." This will be an uphill struggle given various reports published this week which paint a depressing picture of cybersecurity ignorance and carelessness. According to them, most Americans don't recognise basic security concepts; most IT departments are failing to take basic security precautions; and internal user mistakes are responsible for 80% of security incidents. Something really does have to change.