EncroChat lawyers raise questions over use of PII secrecy orders on UK decryption capabilities

Court hearings into the EncroChat encrypted phone network compromised by the French Police have seen further delays, amid claims that public interest immunity notifications may have been used to... Read more »

endpoint detection and response (EDR)

What is endpoint detection and response (EDR)? Endpoint detection and response (EDR) is a system to gather and analyze security threat-related information from computer workstations and other endpoints, with... Read more »

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 »
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