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 »

Managing data securely is key to ensuring its integrity and therefore its value to the organisation, as well as reducing risk from breaches and misinformation. Although, on the face... Read more »

A new alert from Microsoft of a spate of phishing attacks designed to steal Office 365 user names and credentials via a series of malicious redirects has prompted warnings... Read more »

More than a quarter of security leaders in the UK say remote-working employees either circumvented or purposely turned off security tools and services, and a third admit compromising their... Read more »