Propelled to importance by Covid-19, the concept of risk has become highly prevalent, and as such the role of those assessing and mitigating risk has permeated every level and... Read more »

Digital secretary Oliver Dowden’s announcement that the UK intends to pursue independent adequacy decisions to enable easier transfers of personal data to a number of countries looks, on the face of... Read more »

Security information and event management (SIEM) technologies have long been powerful tools for cyber security professionals. They enable security teams to gather and analyse event-based data from a plethora... Read more »

Public prosecutors in Berlin have been told they can use messages intercepted by French police during a sophisticated hacking operation into the EncroChat encrypted phone network in German courts.... Read more »

Multiple threat actors are now coalescing their activity around the ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, which sparked alarm in cyber security circles in August following a botched disclosure... Read more »

Norway has linked a series of cyber attacks against state and private IT infrastructure in 2018 to “bad actors” operating from China. Based on technical and other evidence gathered... Read more »

UK citizens will be able to make payments of up to £100 using a contactless card from next month, but the three-figure sum has raised a few eyebrows. The... Read more »

Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has been fined €225m (£193.4m/$266.6m) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over breaches of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). One of... Read more »

Financial services firms have been hit hardest by domain name system (DNS) cyber attacks during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the most expensive attacks costing an average of £750,000. Figures... Read more »