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 »

The Age Appropriate Design Code from the Information Commissioner’s Office, which has now come into force, ushers in a new set of standards for digital platforms and companies. These... Read more »

Twitter has begun pilot tests of new features and settings designed to protect users from online abuse, with the intention of automatically screening out abusive users and reducing the... Read more »