The LockBit ransomware cartel has confirmed it was indeed behind the 10 January cyber attack on the systems of Royal Mail, which left the UK’s postal service unable to accept mail for... Read more »

A proposed method of reimbursing victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud has an “inherent” conflict of interest that makes it “fundamentally flawed”, according to a Treasury Committee report. The cross-party Treasury... Read more »

CERT, CSIRT, CIRT and SOC are terms you’ll hear in the realm of incident response. In a nutshell, the first three are often used synonymously to describe teams focused on incident response,... Read more »

Security incidents are events that may indicate that an organization’s systems or data have been compromised or that measures put in place to protect them have failed. In IT, a security event... Read more »

European police have shut down an encrypted messaging service used by thousands of people including members of organised crime groups. A joint operation led by Dutch and German police has led to... Read more »

The websites and mobile applications of some of the UK’s most popular retail banks are riddled with security flaws that are putting consumers at risk of falling victim to digitally enabled fraud,... Read more »

Royal Mail has successfully restored almost all of its international services following the 10 January LockBit ransomware attack on its systems, but remains unable to accept new parcels in its physical branches,... Read more »

Royal Mail has successfully restored almost all of its international services following the 10 January LockBit ransomware attack on its systems, but remains unable to accept new parcels bought at physical Post... Read more »

For the past 13 years, Eric Muntz has worked at Mailchimp, latterly as its chief technology officer (CTO). The company was acquired by Intuit in 2021 for $12bn. Muntz has recently changed... Read more »