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GUEST OPINION: Companies are adopting cloud native technologies faster than ever before. With new technology comes new threats and challenges, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing an increasing number of cyber threats targeting cloud native environments.

GUEST OPINION: Migrating to the cloud is no longer a forward looking trend: it's the industry mainstream, with about 70% of production applications running in the cloud. Clearly, cloud security is becoming synonymous with cybersecurity.

This has been something of a beat-up.

The EternalBlue exploit for Windows, crafted by the NSA and leaked online by a group known as the Shadow Brokers, is being increasingly used in exploits two years after it was used to create the WannaCry ransomware, malware that took the world literally by storm.

A senior security researcher at the Slovakian security outfit ESET has highlighted the dangers from what is dubbed siegeware – software that is used to secure building automation systems and that can, once hacked, result in horrendous outcomes.

More than a million files belonging to the Department of Securities in the US state of Oklahoma were exposed to public view for an unknown period, the security firm UpGuard says, before they were secured after the department was notified by the company on 8 December 2018.

A Kaspersky Lab tech expert has found ways to hack into medical devices in an attempt to explore security weaknesses and how to address them - the findings will make you ill!