Facebook parent firm Meta faces fines totalling €390m (£345m) after European regulators found it had been unlawfully processing customers’ personal data to deliver targeted advertising on its Facebook and Instagram social media... Read more »

A South Africa-based threat actor known as Automated Libra has been observed adopting increasingly sophisticated techniques to conduct a widespread freejacking campaign against various public cloud services. Freejacking is the act of... Read more »

Ransomware operators are exploiting Fortinet network devices that remain vulnerable to a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, according to research publicly released today by eSentire’s Threat Research Unit (TRU). Fortinet first disclosed the... Read more »

Staffers at the UK’s Guardian newspaper have been informed that their offices will remain shut for at least a month, following the 20 December 2022 suspected ransomware attack on the media organisation’s... Read more »

Are we entering a new space race? In a manner of speaking, it could be argued we’re already in that race, as the barriers to launching satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO)... Read more »

Nearly nine out of 10 clubbers who tested a digital identification mobile app at a Surrey venue said they found it easy to use and, if given a choice, would prefer to... Read more »

The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team were compelled by events to deviate from their usual light-hearted approach to enterprise business-to-business technology in the first few months of the year. They discussed... Read more »

In 2021, Finland set a goal of raising its expenditure on research, development and innovation (RDI) to 4% of GDP by 2030. The government plan includes basic principles for allocating funding and... Read more »

The past 12 months have been a trying time for cyber security professionals globally. Most notably, they’ve had to contend with a rise in cyber attacks linked to the war in Ukraine. ... Read more »