Security
$5 million bounty placed on Russian hackers responsible for Dridex banking malware
The FBI and US Department of State have placed a record-breaking bounty on Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev
Parents in the US fight to get records of their kids' online activities deleted
School district now conducts an annual 'Data Deletion Week' to purge unnecessary student information from the Google platform and other online applications
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro is tracking users who disable location services
The behaviour is against Apple's own privacy policy
StrandHogg vulnerability enables malicious software to masquerade as trusted Android apps
The vulnerability stems from a multitasking feature in Android
FBI seeks warrant to obtain detailed personal information from Sony
The Bureau has asked for messaging history and even game progress in trying to track down a suspect
China makes facial recognition mandatory for new SIM card purchases
The move will help crack down on scams, according to the government
Around 7,000 people across the UK expected to be victims of credit card frauds on Cyber Monday
Roughly £6 million of transactions are likely to be vulnerable to fraud today
Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords
TfL acts for a second time following August security breach - again blaming the risk of credential stuffing
Magento Marketplace suffers data breach exposing confidential details of users
Magento's platform has been targeted in the past by Magecart scammers, but it claims its core products and services were not exposed in this latest incident
Tracking the threat actors: NCSC's Eleanor Fairford on the evolving threats to the UK's critical infrastructure
'We're seeing ransomware increasingly deployed against utility providers, law enforcement and emergency response units'
"Security campaigns do not work," says infosec professor Adam Joinson
The psychologist and IT expert insists that employees are not the weak link in security that everyone assumes them to be
Warning over Fullz House Magecart threat group using phishing and web skimming to compromise web payments
Fullz House Magecart threat group has branched out from selling 'Fullz' - full packages of information - on underground trading sites
HPE advises users to patch SSDs to prevent crashes after precisely 32,768 hours of operation
The issue impacts 20 SSD models in total
Google's Threat Analysis Group sent 12,000 warnings about state-backed attacks in just three months
In 90 per cent of the cases, attackers used "credential phishing emails" to steal account credentials
Warning over spike in attacks on exposed Docker platforms
Attackers have already scanned nearly 59,000 IP networks, claim researchers
Forget zero-days, the most dangerous vulnerabilities are decades old, says ethical hacker
Ethical hacker Holly Grace Williams on the blind spots that lead to companies being compromised
Google fires four employees over data security policy violations
Two of the terminated Google staffers had addressed a rally outside one of the company's San Francisco offices last week
Automation is key to escaping 'Excel hell'
Third-party risk requires constant monitoring, but too many businesses are stuck using manual approaches
The cost of free broadband may be greater than we realise
Ian Hill, global director of cyber security at construction firm BAM, argues that Labour's plans for free broadband poses grave risks to privacy and internet freedoms
Russia passes law forcing 'locally produced' software onto people's devices
This is a local internet for local people…
General Election 2019: Labour manifesto promises free fibre and fines for Facebook over online bullying
Social media companies to face "legal duty of care" to protect children online, NCSC role to be reviewed and extended, and Charter of Digital Rights promised
Tension-by-design is a healthy way to run cybersecurity, say panellists
Managing the friction between compliance and security is all about empathy
WeWork customers' confidential contract and bank account details left exposed on GitHub
The issue impacted a subset of WeWork customers based in Europe, India, and China
Security has a communication problem, and DevOps is the answer, says Chef
Jeff Mery, VP global solutions architects at Chef tells delegates at Computing's Cyber Security Live conference that treating everything as code helps traditional translation challenges between developers, infrastructure teams and security