A former IT security analyst who exploited an opportunistic ransomware attack to impersonate the attackers and conduct his own, secondary cyber attack on his employer has been convicted of blackmail and unauthorised... Read more »

It’s no secret that the UK is facing a huge fraud problem. Economic crime is thought to cost the UK as a whole up to £350bn per year and fraud accounts for... Read more »

There’s a little bit of a trap sometimes that can arise in the way that humans understand and process language. Specifically, sometimes we take the meaning of a word or phrase for... Read more »

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alongside intelligence agencies from the Anglophone Five Eyes alliance, has issued guidance highlighting a campaign of Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting critical national infrastructure (CNI) networks.... Read more »

Data stored in backups is the most common target for ransomware attackers. Almost all intrusions (93%) target backups and in 75% of cases succeed in taking out victims’ ability to recover. In addition, 85% of... Read more »

Kuwait International Bank is using technology from Zwipe to provide customers with biometric security on payment cards, adding a layer of authentication through fingerprint recognition technology. With contactless payments becoming the most... Read more »

Backup product maker Cohesity has announced a number of artificial intelligence (AI)-focused partnerships and a bundling of AI tools for ransomware detection and remediation in Cohesity Turing. The partnership aspect centres on... Read more »

Meta, the company which owns Facebook, has been fined €1.2 billion and has been ordered to suspend transfers of data from Facebook users in the Europe to the US. The fine, issued... Read more »

A police operation to crack the EncroChat encrypted phone network which led to thousands of arrests worldwide is a judicial and political scandal, Spanish lawyers have claimed. Guillermo Rocafort, speaking at a... Read more »