Digital fraud and risk teams seem to be locked in a perpetual game of catch-up. Every five to 10 years, new technology comes along which gives us an advantage, until the hackers... Read more »
Lawyers representing 10 claimants who are challenging the lawfulness of the National Crime Agency’s role in bringing prosecutions based on messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network had put forward ‘incredible’ claims,... Read more »
Lawyers for the National Crime Agency (NCA) dismissed key findings of a technical expert about the EncroChat hacking operation as inaccurate, despite agreeing to take the findings “as read”, the Investigatory Powers... Read more »
Mitiga threat researchers have identified what they describe as a new potential attack vector leveraging recently introduced functionality in Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology that has made changing Elastic IP ownership in AWS... Read more »
In a year in which the mainstream news agenda was dominated by the return of war to Europe, the destructive cyber war against the West that some had imagined never really materialised,... Read more »
High-profile cyber attacks elevated cyber security and cyber crime to dinner table conversation in 2021, and although there was no repeat of the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2022, awareness of cyber issues... Read more »
A Russian hacking group, believed to be working on behalf of Russian intelligence, has been targeting politicians, journalists, military and former intelligence officers for at least the past seven years. In May... Read more »
What is a hotfix? A hotfix is code — sometimes called a patch — that fixes a bug in a product. Users of the product might be notified by email or obtain... Read more »
“My other computer is your computer”, “Sniff networks, not drugs”, “Hacking is not a crime”. Anybody who knows cyber security will have seen laptops adorned with such stickers and when you see... Read more »
After nearly 50 years of membership, on 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union (EU), some four years after the Brexit referendum. This extended period of regulatory harmony leaves the UK (for... Read more »