Outsourcer Capita has told some pension provider clients that data it processed on their behalf was compromised in the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on its systems. According to the Financial... Read more »

Santander Bank has reported an 11% increase in fraud through impersonation scams, and admitted that its own head of fraud was impersonated as part of a £60,000 theft from a customer. According... Read more »

Moving a company’s IT into the cloud is seen a reasonable thing to do for many companies as it has many attractions including cost, space savings, reduced headcount and performance bonuses. Tried... Read more »

Google has rolled out a passkey option that people can use to sign into its services alongside traditional authentication methods, and proclaimed a major step towards a “passwordless future”. Released in advance... Read more »

The Welsh government has today launched a Cyber Action Plan for Wales, outlining four priorities to bolster the country’s cyber security resilience and industry, and bringing together government, industry, academia and law... Read more »

Video-sharing social media platform TikTok has fixed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its application that could have allowed a malicious actor to view and monitor user activity on mobile and desktop devices.... Read more »

A national anti-fraud strategy, launched today, will target digitally enabled fraud and scams, taking the fight to the criminal underground and stopping fraudsters from ever reaching their victims, the government has claimed.... Read more »

Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to classify... Read more »

Apple has released the first security update under its new Rapid Security Response programme, but has sparked confusion after releasing no information about any of the issues it was fixing, while some... Read more »