What is surveillance capitalism? Surveillance capitalism is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people’s movements and behaviors online and in the physical world. Consumer surveillance is most commonly used for targeted... Read more »
This is a fitting time to reflect on another year of working with clients to help them protect their organisations from IT security threats. The world of cyber security never stands still... Read more »
Employees and former employees of the UK business of Japanese cosmetics firm Shiseido who found their personal information had been exposed in a data breach are being asked to come forward to... Read more »
The intelligence officer who played a key role in the National Crime Agency (NCA)’s work on its Operation Venetic investigation into criminals using EncroChat encrypted phones had not given reliable evidence, defence... Read more »
Jisc, the non-profit that supports the UK higher education and research community with shared digital infrastructure and services such as the Janet network, has announced that it will start blocking traffic originating... Read more »
The Lego Group has moved swiftly to fix a pair of application programming interface (API) security vulnerabilities that existed in its BrickLink digital resale platform, after they were identified by Salt Labs,... Read more »
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working alongside the FBI, the Dutch Police, and European Union law enforcement agency Europol, has taken down 48 of the world’s most widely used booter sites... Read more »
A National Crime Agency (NCA) officer faced questions in Britain’s most secret court on Wednesday 14 December after she failed to disclose a key document about the agency’s use of hacked text... Read more »
Plans in development to create a “single source” of healthcare data in England to enhance patient safety are moving closer to reality with the publication of a report by the Acute Data... Read more »
An emergent data wiper ransomware known as Azov – which first came to attention as a payload delivered by the SmokeLoader botnet – is becoming increasingly widespread and seems to be on... Read more »