CMA to probe Amazon and Google over fake reviews

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened formal enforcement proceedings against tech giants Amazon and Google relating to possible breaches of consumer protection law, amid concerns that... Read more »

AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a global competition to encourage developers to hunt out a million dodgy code and software vulnerabilities, and potentially eliminate hundreds of millions of... Read more »

Google hands third-party cookies a stay of execution

Google has postponed the introduction of its planned Privacy Sandbox initiative – including the timeline for the phasing out third-party cookies in the Chrome web browser – to the... Read more »

NCSC recognises cyber degree apprenticeships for the first time

Edinburgh Napier University and the University of the West of England, in partnership with Gloucestershire College, have been named by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as the... Read more »

Revealed: Crypto platform’s role in Cl0p ransomware raid

Blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Binance has shared details of its role in the 16 June 2021 raid on elements of the Cl0p (aka Clop) ransomware crew in Ukraine,... Read more »

Stalkerware apps becoming normalised among young people

Around 7% of Britons who have been in a romantic relationship admit to using stalkerware or other methods of stalking, such as device and browser history snooping to keep... Read more »

(ISC)² makes ransomware education course free through 31 July

Cyber security professional membership and skills association (ISC)² is to make one of its most popular Professional Development Institute (PDI) courses, Ransomware: Identify, protect, defend, recover, available for free... Read more »

Controversial cyber tycoon John McAfee dead at 75

John McAfee, the high-profile and often controversial software entrepreneur behind the eponymous cyber security company, has died in an apparent suicide in a Barcelona prison at the age of... Read more »

Make ransomware payments illegal, say 79% of cyber pros

More than three-quarters of security professionals and consumers alike believe that making ransomware payments to cyber criminals should be made illegal to stem to tide of attacks, according to... Read more »

City of York picks Barracuda Networks for data protection

City of York Council has enlisted Barracuda Networks’ Cloud-to-Cloud Backup security service to protect its valuable Microsoft Office 365 data after having migrated from a fully on-premise email, office... Read more »
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