The Department for Education (DfE) has been given a reprimand but escaped a £10m regulatory fine for a data breach that saw a database of personal information held on 28 million people... Read more »

The BBC has developed a web app that uses live personal data from the BBC, Spotify and Netflix to create a media profile for users. According to BBC Research, this media profile... Read more »

While ransomware remains one of the top cyber security concerns for organisations today, the state of ransomware defence is failing. Historically, organisations have relied on a combination of people, process and technology... Read more »

The success of high-profile, destructive cyber attacks on operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) has clearly caught the attention of increasingly aggressive nation-state threat actors or advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, which... Read more »

Cyber skills shortages have plagued the industry for years – and are not getting any better. Cyber Security Ventures has estimated that there were 3.5 million unfilled cyber roles in 2021 and... Read more »

Ransomware has become increasingly professionalised with organised threat actors, sophisticated tools and new commercial models, such as ransomware as a service (RaaS), driving economies of scale. The silver lining is that the grave... Read more »

Microsoft has extended a commitment to offer technology support free of charge to Ukraine until December 2023, topping up over $400m it has spent since February with additional aid valued at roughly... Read more »

Trustpilot’s Stu Hirst is an experienced information security professional whose motivation lies in using a range of tools and techniques to keep his online business safe and secure from external predators. “The... Read more »

What is Adobe Flash? Adobe Flash is a software platform used to create rich digital content containing animation, graphic effects, streaming video and other interactive elements to deliver engaging user experiences over... Read more »