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Top 10 Cyber Security Stories Of 2023 - ComputerWeekly

ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, December 19,2023

The past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides, but it was the chaotic state of global geopolitics that really made an impact

The past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides. It was also a year in which governments around the world, but especially in the UK and US, started to flex their muscles in terms of active engagement in cyber security.

And in the end, it was probably geopolitical concerns that dominated the security news agenda. 2023 saw the emergence of a new class of threat actor determined on causing indiscriminate chaos, continuing Russian attempts to manipulate the political process, and massive exploitation of vulnerabilities by Chinese threat actors in the service of industrial espionage.

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cyber security stories of 2023.

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