passkey

What is a passkey? A passkey is an alternative method of user authentication that eliminates the need for usernames and passwords. Rather than relying on old login methods that are susceptible to... Read more »

UK insurers need to up their game on cyber gaps, says PRA

The Bank of England regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), has highlighted a number of concerning gaps and limitations in how major insurers model and respond to cyber risk, after conducting a... Read more »

SSRF attacks hit 100,000 businesses globally since November

Security teams are warned to be on the lookout for a growing wave of opportunistic and largely untargeted cyber attacks exploiting two related exploit chains to target Microsoft Exchange servers. This is... Read more »

backdoor (computing)

What is a backdoor? A backdoor attack is a way to access a computer system or encrypted data that bypasses the system’s customary security mechanisms. A developer may create a backdoor so... Read more »

Fake online contest makes Yahoo! most phished brand of Q4 2022

Veteran web company Yahoo! has emerged as the most imitated brand in phishing attacks over the last three months of 2022, according to Check Point’s quarterly Brand phishing report, which highlights the... Read more »

Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

Trellix and GitHub have collectively fixed a total of 61,895 open source projects that were found to be susceptible to a 15 year-old path traversal vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module. The firm’s... Read more »

The rise of fraud in pop culture is impacting consumers’ digital trust

From The Tinder Swindler to Inventing Anna, true crime documentaries and dramatisations found a prominent place in popular culture in 2022. The Netflix specials captivated audiences’ attention and curiosity about identity fraud,... Read more »

NCSC warning over cyber risk to charity sector

Under-resourced charities running services and fundraising activities online are increasingly seen as a soft touch by cyber criminals looking to make a quick buck, and are at risk of malicious actors taking... Read more »

Royal Mail making limited progress on ransomware recovery

Royal Mail has said that international deliveries of letters and parcels are getting back on track after being suspended for over a week in the wake of a suspected LockBit ransomware attack,... Read more »

Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

Most IT leaders (83% ) think there’s an “availability gap” between how quickly they need systems to be recoverable and how soon that can be achieved. Meanwhile, 81% identify a “protection gap”... Read more »