Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts

As the UK marks a significant step out of lockdown on 12 April with the further relaxation of restrictions, cyber criminals exploiting the pandemic are concentrating their efforts on... Read more »

Why some jobseekers have turned to cyber crime during the pandemic

People made unemployed and looking for work as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have been increasingly turning to cyber crime to make money easily and quickly, according to recent... Read more »

What has a year of home working meant for the DPO?

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since much of the employed world was sent to work from home indefinitely. Home spaces have become workspaces and, for... Read more »

Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak

Analysis of a trove of personal data leaked online thanks to lax cyber security and privacy policies implemented at social media giant Facebook has revealed Egypt, the US and... Read more »

NCSC: Using your pet’s name as a password is very stupid

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning over the dangers of using easily hackable passwords, ahead of National Pet Day, which falls on 11 April.... Read more »

Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug

The operators of Cring ransomware have been conducting a series of damaging attacks on industrial targets and control systems (ICS) after apparently acquiring a list of users of Fortinet’s... Read more »

Nation-state cyber attacks double in three years

Nation state-backed cyber attacks are becoming more widespread, varied and open than ever before, with the number of significant incidents doubling between 2017 and 2020, according to the University... Read more »

Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak

Facebook has attempted to deflect criticism of its data security practices while ducking calls to apologise for a leak of personally identifiable information (PII) on hundreds of millions of... Read more »

Unpatched SAP applications are target-rich ground for hackers

Hackers are targeting unpatched vulnerabilities in SAP applications, according to a report issued by SAP and cyber threat research company Onapsis. The report detailed more than 300 successful exploitations of critical... Read more »

Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR

A data leak of information on approximately 533 million Facebook users – including profile names, mobile numbers and location data – has prompted talk of regulatory action against the... Read more »
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