Microsoft is most impersonated brand in phishing attempts

Cyber criminals continue to imitate well-known technology brands in their phishing attacks, playing on the trust that people have in companies such as Microsoft, according to new data compiled... Read more »

Ireland’s DPC launches probe into Facebook leak

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has initiated an own-volition inquiry under section 110 of the Irish Data Protection Act of 2018 following the leak of a vast tranche of... Read more »

How Windows patching leaves security exposed

Next month, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 10 build 1909, two years after its release. This may not be receiving the same headlines as end of... Read more »

FBI accesses ProxyLogon target servers to disrupt cyber criminals

The US Justice Department has authorised the FBI to access systems vulnerable to the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to remove malicious web shells that had been installed. The... Read more »

NSA unearths more MS Exchange vulnerabilities

Just weeks after the disclosure of a series of critical zero-days in Microsoft Exchange Server caused consternation in the cyber community, Microsoft has patched four new vulnerabilities in the... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Vaccine passports cannot be taken lightly

The roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine has – in the main – been welcomed with open arms, offering as it does a route out of lockdown and an eventual... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Vaccine passports must be secure by design

From the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, vaccination has been seen as the primary tool to escape lockdown, allow foreign travel and reopen large public events. There is... Read more »

MP told to ditch official email over hacking fears

Member of parliament and Foreign Affairs Committee chair Tom Tugendhat has made the claim that the UK’s intelligence services unofficially told him to stop using his official parliamentary email... Read more »

Covid-19 left people feeling vulnerable to cyber crime

Almost half of Britons say they feel more vulnerable to cyber crime today than they did before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, nearly 15 million people across... Read more »

Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs

More than 100 million connected internet of things (IoT) devices, as many as 36,000 of them physically located in the UK, are thought to be at risk from nine... Read more »
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