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The Post Office in the UK has announced it will expand the use of digital identity technology in partnership with software company Yoti. The government-owned retail postal service will roll out a range of products both online and in-branch, providing consumers with a range of choices as to how...

Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz AktienGesellschaft has recalled over a million vehicles following the discovery of an emergency call system fault. A glitch uncovered in the eCall feature means alerts sent from the car to emergency services in the event of an accident may contain...

The Internal Revenue Service has issued an urgent warning to tax professionals over a new scam in which cyber-criminals impersonate the IRS over email in an attempt to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs). Carrying the subject line "Verifying your EFIN before e-filing," the...

Educational establishments offering the best cybersecurity instruction in the United Kingdom have been recognized by Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Under the NCSC's CyberFirst Schools initiative, fourteen schools and sixth-form colleges across the country have been issued...

The Russian state-backed operatives responsible for the SolarWinds attack may have numbered more than 1000, Microsoft president Brad Smith has claimed. Speaking to the CBS 60 Minutes program over the weekend, Smith argued that the campaign, which targeted multiple US government departments and...

Over two-thirds of British adults are unaware how to report cybercrime, with many admitting they feel uninformed about attacks, according to a new study. Digital agency Reboot Online analyzed European Commission data from across the region, to better understand the general public’s...

European police have targeted an Irish family thought to have laundered as much as €4m ($4.9m) from elsewhere in the region. The Criminal Asset Bureau of the Irish National Police ordered raids across four residential properties and one business premises in Tipperary and Kilkenny, resulting in...

The digital shift emanating from the COVID-19 crisis can serve to enhance workforce productivity, but organizations must be careful to ensure this does not threaten their security and make them more vulnerable to cyber-attacks, according to a panel speaking during the Tech Predictions Mini...

Fraudulent product reviews for goods sold on Amazon's Marketplace are available to purchase by the bundle, according to an investigation by consumer group Which? The group identified 10 different websites including AMZTigers from which Amazon sellers could purchase positive reviews at prices...

European consumer groups have accused video-sharing app TikTok of failing to protect minor users from inappropriate content and hidden advertising. The Chinese-owned app was the target of multiple complaints from organizations in 15 different countries on Tuesday for allegedly violating...

A South African man has admitted carrying out a cyber-harassment campaign against his neighbors in an attempt to extort money. Residents of the same quiet street in a Durban suburb that Dharmesh Singh calls home were subjected to weeks of abuse with no idea that the person behind it was their...

North Korea has attempted to hack into COVID-19 vaccine data from US pharma giant Pfizer, it has been claimed. As reported by the BBC, South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency has briefed law makers about the alleged cyber-attack, although it is unclear whether any data has been stolen...

French software provider Centreon has hit back at a report from the country’s cybersecurity agency that its products were hijacked in a Russian cyber-campaign, claiming that no paying customers were affected. The firm, which produces IT monitoring software not unlike SolarWinds, was at the...

YouTube has taken down almost 3000 channels and accounts deemed to part of separate Chinese and Russian state coordinated influence operations. The vast majority of the work involved the removal of 2946 YouTube channels deemed to be part of a Chinese influence operation, according to Google’s...

Security experts are warning of a new COVID-19 vaccine phishing scam, this time using NHS-branded emails to trick users into handing over their personal and financial details. The latest campaign informs recipients they have been selected for a jab based on family and medical history, using the...

Emotional intelligence is becoming an increasingly important skill for CISOs to master as their roles continue to broaden, according to a new study by F-Secure. A series of interviews conducted with relatively small number of CISOs (28) from the US, UK and other European countries suggested...

Cybersecurity and risk management solutions company SureCloud has announced the appointment of Caren Havelock as its new chief marketing officer. Havelock brings over 21 years of IT marketing experience to the newly created role at SureCloud, with a proven record of building and growing...

The ways organizations should go about establishing a strong internal cybersecurity culture was discussed by a panel during the Tech Predictions Mini Summit. The speakers firstly acknowledged that cyber-criminals are increasingly exploiting the lack of security awareness amongst staff to target...

American legal giant Jones Day says its computer network has not been compromised following a cyber-attack on the firm's file-transfer vendor Accellion. Accellion's 20-year-old FTA (Files Transfer Appliance) file-transfer platform was "the target of a sophisticated cyberattack," according to a...

New research by global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has found that IT security staff spend more time pursuing their hobbies during business hours than do their colleagues in other departments. A survey of more than 5,200 IT and cybersecurity practitioners globally found that the IT security...