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A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan has been charged with first degree sexual misconduct. Peter Chen was arraigned on January 27 and given a personal recognizance bond. The 55-year-old professor has taught at the university for 27 years. Dean of the...

Police in Greece are to be issued new devices that will allow them to carry out real-time facial recognition and fingerprint identification while out on the beat. The plan to disseminate the new technology is part of the 4.5 million euro "Smart Policing" project announced in 2017 that aims to...

The number of identity theft reports filed with US consumer protection authorities doubled over the past year thanks to the impact of the pandemic. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in an update yesterday that it received 1.4 million such reports last year, twice the number filed in 2019...

A California man has been charged with securities fraud after allegedly tricking cryptocurrency investors out of millions and using actor Steven Seagal to promote a fake company. John DeMarr, 55, of Santa Ana, was charged in a complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York. He is said to...

Over 80% of British and American employees overshare on social media, potentially exposing themselves and their organization to online fraud, phishing and other cyber-threats, according to Tessian. The email security vendor polled 4000 UK and US professionals and interviewed 10 hackers...

A record number of scams were recorded in the UK last year, according to figures published by Barclays. The banking giant recorded a particularly large growth in the amount of victims scammed in the second half of 2020, up by 66% compared with the first six months. This was fuelled by high...

The IT infrastructure of UK businesses continues to be at high risk of cyber-attacks as a result of home working, according to a new study by Kaspersky. IT leaders highlighted a disconnect between organizations and security vendors as a primary factor in this ongoing risk. The survey of 240...

The road to recovery is proving to be a long one for a South Carolina county targeted by cyber-attackers last month. Georgetown County's network was brought down by cyber-criminals on January 23 in what officials described as a "major infrastructure breach." While 911 systems and operations...

The state of Indiana has launched a new blog to promote cybersecurity best practices and share tips on how to stay cyber-safe. The Indiana Cyber Blog is hosted on the Hoosier State's Cybersecurity Hub website, where residents can go to report a cybercrime, research cyber training courses and...

The United States has imprisoned a woman who admitted conspiring with her husband to steal secret research from an Ohio's children's hospital and selling the stolen data to China. Hospital researcher Li Chen pleaded guilty in July 2020 to conspiring to commit wire fraud and to stealing...

The Infosecurity industry came together virtually on January 29 2021 to raise money for the NSPCC’s Childline Service. The White Hat Ball, which is normally hosted at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, is now in its 16th year and has raised more than £2m for Childline. This year’s virtual...

Over three million customers of a US car company have had their details compromised after a cyber-criminal posted them to a dark web forum, according to Risk Based Security. The security vendor spotted multiple databases uploaded to a hacking forum on January 4 this year, although the data dump...

Suspected Chinese state-backed threat actors exploited a SolarWinds Orion bug to compromise a US government payroll agency, a new report has claimed. The campaign took place last year and was separate to the successful Russian cyber-espionage plot to spy on multiple government departments, five...

Estate agent Foxtons Group is under pressure after a daily newspaper claimed that thousands of customers’ card and personal details have been uploaded to a dark web site. A customer found over 16,000 card details, addresses and private messages on October 12 last year, according to publication...

The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) has launched a new online tool to help firms prevent and fight open banking fraud. The Counter-Fraud Maturity Self-Assessment tool has been collaboratively developed by the OBIE Security & Fraud Working Group, Accenture, Cifas, the University of...

Suspected Chinese state-backed threat actors exploited a SolarWinds Orion bug to compromise a US government payroll agency, a new report has claimed. The campaign took place last year and was separate to the successful Russian cyber-espionage plot to spy on multiple government departments, five...

Estate agent Foxtons Group is under pressure after a daily newspaper claimed that thousands of customers’ card and personal details have been uploaded to a dark web site. A customer found over 16,000 card details, addresses and private messages on October 12 last year, according to publication...

The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) has launched a new online tool to help firms prevent and fight open banking fraud. The Counter-Fraud Maturity Self-Assessment tool has been collaboratively developed by the OBIE Security & Fraud Working Group, Accenture, Cifas, the University of...

The Illinois company behind a popular fertility app is being sued for allegedly sharing user data with third-party companies without first securing users' consent. Easy Healthcare Corp, based in Burr Ridge, is the developer of ovulation tracking app Premom, which helps users to identify the...

A 41-year-old man from Virginia who waged a cyber-harassment campaign against the mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his family has been sentenced to prison. Norfolk resident Adam Maxwell Donn was charged in July 2020 with cyberstalking G.T. Bynum. Between June 11 and June 22, 2020, Donn barraged...