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Cybersecurity firm Ericom Software has announced the appointment of Dr Chase Cunningham as its first chief strategy officer. Joining from market research company Forrester, Cunningham will be responsible for shaping Ericom’s strategic vision, roadmap and key partnerships. Cunningham has over 19...

A spate of swatting attacks waged against users of smart-home devices in America has prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue a public warning. The term 'swatting' is used to describe a hoax call made to emergency services, typically reporting an immediate threat to human life, to...

American cloud security provider iboss today announced that it has raised $145m in new funding. The fresh financing will be spent on supporting the company's "rapid growth" in a market it says is worth $25bn. iboss is a privately held company founded in 2003 that is headquartered in Boston...

Secure Chorus, a not-for-profit membership organization for the development of strategies, standards and capabilities in the field of information security, has announced the transfer of ownership of its interoperability standards for enterprise grade encrypted messaging apps to the European...

Thousands of cryptocurrency users have fallen victim to a sophisticated threat campaign that uses trojanized apps to drain funds from digital wallets. The recently discovered campaign is a wide-ranging operation that encompasses fake companies, a marketing campaign, custom-built cryptocurrency...

The UK's flag-carrier airline is said to be planning to begin settlement discussions that could see customers who became the victims of a data breach receive a compensation payout of up to £3bn. British Airways customers were impacted by two data breaches in 2018. Between April and July 2018...

Poor-quality software cost America over $2tn last year, according to a new report by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). The "Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2020 Report," which was co-sponsored by American software company Synopsys, found that the cost of poor...

The Defense Digital Service (DDS) and HackerOne have announced the launch of a new bug bounty program, in which participants will attempt to uncover vulnerabilities in the US Army’s digital systems. This will be the 11th bug bounty program to take place between the DDS and HackerOne, and the...

Over a third of technology and media companies in the UK suffered a serious cyber-incident last year, according to new data from insurer Hiscox. The firm claimed that 34% of firms in the technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector were caught out by a cyber-incident or breach in 2020, leading...

Social media companies have moved swiftly to block posts by Donald Trump in the wake of extraordinary scenes in the US capital that have left four people dead. Twitter and Facebook both blocked the outgoing President’s accounts following policy violations, removing posts which repeated baseless...

Thousands of Department of Justice (DoJ) email accounts were accessed by SolarWinds attackers last year, the department has confirmed. The DoJ issued a brief statement yesterday to shed more light on the impact of the attacks, which the government has so far acknowledged and blamed on Russia...

Global security giant Kaspersky and robot cybersecurity firm Alias Robotics have announced a partnership that will seek to enhance protection for robots used in operational technology (OT) infrastructure. Used in many industrial operations, robots – a key component of Industry 4.0 – represent...

Deepfake video and audio technologies could become a major threat to businesses over the next two years, leading to substantial financial losses, according to a report by CyberCube entitled Social Engineering: Blurring reality and fake. The cyber insurance analytics firm said that...

Enterprise security firm Panaseer has announced the appointment of Jonathan Gill as its new CEO. Gill succeeds Panaseer founder Nik Whitfield in the role, with Whitfield becoming chairman and chief seer of the organization. Gill brings a proven record of accomplishment in both leadership and...

Sensitive data stolen from Hackney Council in the UK has allegedly been published online, three months after the ransomware attack on the local authority that took place last year. A cyber-criminal group called Pysa/Mespinoza has claimed it has published a range of information resulting from...

Software firm HelpSystems has announced the acquisition of FileCatalyst to boost the speed and security of its file transfer offerings. FileCatalyst specializes in helping transfer extremely large files in organizations at hundreds of times faster than what the file transfer protocol allows...

A well-known Chinese state-backed APT group is believed to have been responsible for multiple ransomware attacks against firms last year, according to new research. A report from Security Joes and Pro reveals how the vendors uncovered the links after investigating an incident in which...

Cyber-attacks on global healthcare organizations (HCOs) increased at more than double the rate of those targeting other sectors over the past two months, according to Check Point. The security vendor’s latest data covers the period from the beginning of November to the end of 2020, and compares...

Cybersecurity firm Ericom Software has announced the appointment of Dr Chase Cunningham as its first chief strategy officer. Joining from market research company Forrester, Cunningham will be responsible for shaping Ericom’s strategic vision, roadmap and key partnerships. Cunningham has over 19...

A spate of swatting attacks waged against users of smart-home devices in America has prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue a public warning. The term 'swatting' is used to describe a hoax call made to emergency services, typically reporting an immediate threat to human life, to...