The Covid-19 pandemic has already provided plenty of lessons in how malicious actors exploit trending topics, events and disasters to carry out fraud and cyber attacks, and given huge... Read more »
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is spearheading a Treasury initiative to reach out to leaders in the UK tech sector, such as CEOs, investors and startups, to better... Read more »
The leak of a database of the records of users of Apple HealthKit and Google FitBit services, alongside several other brands of fitness tracker products, has highlighted once again... Read more »
The cost of a ransomware attack to a financial services organisation now clocks in at an average of $2m (£1.44m), exceeding the global average of $1.85m (£1.33m) by a... Read more »
Apple has issued a patch for a recently discovered vulnerability that has reportedly been exploited by government customers of Israeli cyber security firm NSO Group to install its Pegasus... Read more »
The volume of scam text messages – commonly known as smishing scams – sent to UK mobile customers during the first six months of 2021 grew by close to... Read more »
The European operations of Japanese optical technology giant Olympus remain offline today, following an apparent ransomware attack, thought likely to be the work of the BlackMatter syndicate. Although at... Read more »
The Cabinet Office is planning to ask for up to £400m to fund its latest digital identity programme over the next three years. Computer Weekly has learned that the... Read more »
A year after the publication of the UK’s National Data Strategy, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is embarking on a major new consultation centring on... Read more »
Security analysts are once again warning of another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft products after reports emerged of active exploitation of CVE-2021-40444, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the... Read more »
