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$5 million placed bounty on Russian hackers responsible for Dridex banking malware
$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

  • Hacking
  • 06 December 2019
MCPS in the US conducted a "Data Deletion Week" in August purge unnecessary student information from the Google platform as well as other online applications
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

  • Privacy
  • 06 December 2019
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro is tracking users who disable location services
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro is tracking users who disable location services

The behaviour is against Apple's own privacy policy

  • Security
  • 05 December 2019
StrandHogg vulnerability enables malicious software to masquerade as trusted Android apps
StrandHogg vulnerability enables malicious software to masquerade as trusted Android apps

The vulnerability stems from a multitasking feature in Android

  • Security
  • 04 December 2019
FBI seeks warrant to obtain detailed personal information from Sony
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

  • Privacy
  • 04 December 2019
China makes facial recognition mandatory for new SIM card purchases
China makes facial recognition mandatory for new SIM card purchases

The move will help crack down on scams, according to the government

  • Privacy
  • 03 December 2019
Around 7000 people across the UK expected to be victims of payment card frauds on Cyber Monday
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

  • Security
  • 02 December 2019
Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords
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

  • Security
  • 29 November 2019
Magento Marketplace suffers data breach exposing confidential details of users
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

  • Hacking
  • 29 November 2019
Tracking the threat actors: NCSC's Eleanor Fairford on the evolving menace to the UK's critical infrastructure
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
  • 28 November 2019
“Security campaigns do not work,” says infosec professor Adam Joinson
"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

  • Security
  • 28 November 2019
Fullz House hackers using phishing and web skimming techniques to generate more revenue from their operations
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

  • Threats and Risks
  • 27 November 2019
HPE advises users to patch SSDs to prevent crashes after precisely 32,768 hours of operation
HPE advises users to patch SSDs to prevent crashes after precisely 32,768 hours of operation

The issue impacts 20 SSD models in total

  • Security
  • 27 November 2019
Google's Threat Analysis Group sent 12,000 warnings about state-backed attacks in just three months
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

  • Security
  • 27 November 2019
Warning over spike in attacks on exposed Docker platforms
Warning over spike in attacks on exposed Docker platforms

Attackers have already scanned nearly 59,000 IP networks, claim researchers

  • Security
  • 26 November 2019
Holly Grace Williams
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

  • Security
  • 26 November 2019
Google fires four employees over data security policy violations
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

  • Leadership
  • 26 November 2019
Automation is key to escaping the Excel Hell
Automation is key to escaping 'Excel hell'

Third-party risk requires constant monitoring, but too many businesses are stuck using manual approaches

  • Security
  • 26 November 2019
The cost of free broadband may be greater than we realise
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

  • Privacy
  • 25 November 2019
Russia passes law forcing ‘locally produced’ software onto people’s devices
Russia passes law forcing 'locally produced' software onto people's devices

This is a local internet for local people…

  • Security
  • 22 November 2019
General Election 2019: Labour manifesto promises free fibre and fines for Facebook over online bullying
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

  • Leadership
  • 22 November 2019
Tension-by-design is a healthy way to run cybersecurity, say panellists
Tension-by-design is a healthy way to run cybersecurity, say panellists

Managing the friction between compliance and security is all about empathy

  • Security
  • 22 November 2019
WeWork customers' confidential contract and bank account details left exposed on GitHub
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

  • Privacy
  • 22 November 2019
Security has a communication problem, and DevOps is the answer, says Chef
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

  • Security
  • 21 November 2019
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