It has been reported that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has once again deferred massive GDPR fines issued to British Airways and Marriott International nine months ago. The fines, relating to data breaches that occurred during 2018, are…

GDPR penalties deferred as Covid-19 takes hold

An inter-governmental law enforcement organization, INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, has cautioned that it has detected a significant increase in cyber-attacks against hospitals around the world that are engaged in the…

Cyber Attacks Against Hospitals Have ‘Significantly Increased’ As Hackers Seek To Maximize Profits

For the best part of the last decade, according to a new report from the BlackBerry research and intelligence team, advanced hackers working in the interests of China have been attacking Linux targets with a lot of success and little to no detection.…

Linux Security: Chinese State Hackers May Have Compromised ‘Holy Grail’ Targets Since 2012

HP was the second-largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2019, shipping 16.13 million units, according to Statista. Since 2012, HP computers running Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 have shipped with the HP Support Assistant…

Millions Of Windows 7, 8 And 10 HP Computers Exposed To Hack Attack

While Microsoft recently made an unprecedented change to the way Windows 10 cumulative updates would be rolled out from May 2020, that doesn't mean version updates are a thing of the past. The next version of Windows 10 is expected to arrive this…

Windows 10 Security Update: Change Your Password To A PIN, Says Microsoft

If, like me, you use the Firefox web browser to access Twitter from your laptop, you might well be regretting you switched from Apple Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge. When I logged into Twitter as part of my early morning routine today, the…

Twitter Confirms Firefox Data Problem: Hackers Could Have Accessed Your Data - Here’s What To Do Now

One hacker found no less than seven zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple Safari that enabled him to construct an attack chain, using just three of them, to hijack the iPhone camera successfully. Well, any iOS or macOS camera for that matter. Here's how…

iPhone Camera Hacked: Three Zero-Days Used In $75,000 Attack Chain

In an unprecedented move, the Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center have collaborated in an effort to alert healthcare organisations of potential vulnerabilities that could lead to a successful…

Covid-19: Microsoft teams up with healthcare firms to counter ransomware

Are there no depths that cruel hackers and cybercriminals will not plumb during the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone else is pulling together? The answer, if a cyberattack on the social security coronavirus benefits application website over the last…

Cyber Attack Disrupts COVID-19 Payouts: Hackers Take Down Italian Social Security Site

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIS) has advised users to update Google Chrome as new high-rated security vulnerabilities have been found. Here’s what you need to know.
CISA, a standalone federal agency under the U.S. Department…

U.S. Government: Update Chrome 80 Now, Multiple Security Concerns Confirmed

With the coronavirus pushing many NHS trusts to their limit, our columnist Davey Winder, explores why the health service is still an attractive target for cyber-criminals.
Like many of us, I have a very personal connection to the evolving coronavirus…

Neither Covid-19 nor cyber-criminals care who gets infected and suffers

Houseparty is one of the must-have apps for people self-isolating or in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. With more than 10 million downloads from Google Play, and daily downloads increasing from 24,795 per day on February 15 to an…

Has Houseparty Been Sabotaged? $1 Million Reward Offered As Hacking Claims Go Viral

The most prominent provider of free site hosting on the Dark Web has been taken down by hackers. Here's what happened and why it matters.
The operator of the biggest free host for dark web sites, Daniel's Hosting, has confirmed that the service has…

Hack Attack Takes Down Dark Web: 7,595 Websites Confirmed Deleted

The release of iOS 13.4 by Apple earlier this week was met with the usual mixture of joy and concern. Joy regarding the introduction of new Memoji stickers and iCloud folder sharing, concern over some bugs that have already been reported. However,…

Apple Confirms 30 Compelling Security Reasons To Install iOS 13.4 Right Now

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is tasked with protecting the company, and those who use its services, against nation-state hacking attacks. One way it does this is by warning Google account holders if TAG has detected targeted activity from…

Google Confirms 40,000 Nation-State Cyber Attack Warnings Issued

New research from both KnowBe4 and Barracuda Networks has revealed the extent to which phishing campaigns during the Covid-19 pandemic could impact organisations. KnowBe4 benchmarking has found that 37.9 percent of users without social engineering…

WFH awareness training becomes important as Covid-19 phishing scams increase

Researchers from the Russian 'Doctor Web' virus laboratory have issued a warning after discovering thousands of victims have been tricked into downloading a dangerous backdoor that is disguised as an update to Google Chrome.
Updates and upgrades have…

Warning: Hackers Trick Thousands Into Downloading Dangerous ‘Google Chrome Update’

WhatsApp announced that it had hit the two billion user milestone on February 12. Those users are now being exposed to a recurring security risk. That risk revolves around a warning that spread about a malicious WhatsApp message that first appeared…

WhatsApp Upgrade Warning: Here’s What 2 Billion Users Need To Know

The World Health Organization (WHO) plays a vital role during the coronavirus pandemic. Abhorrent hackers don't give two hoots as cyber attacks against the WHO double.
The World Health Organization is a vital hub for advice, research, factual reports…

‘Elite Hackers’ Thought Behind Cyber Attack On World Health Organization

Citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft is putting non-security updates on pause for all Windows 10 and Windows Server users
On March 10, Microsoft corporate vice-president, Yusuf Mehdi, proudly announced that more than a billion people…