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The company at the center of revelations over a widespread Russian information-stealing campaign has said that fewer than 18,000 of its global customers were affected. SolarWinds produces popular software that helps organizations manage their IT networks and infrastructure. However, it was...

The UK government will introduce an Online Safety Bill next year which could result in fines higher than the GDPR for companies that allow illegal content to be posted on their platforms. The plans are nominally aimed at protecting children online by banning things like terrorist content, child...

Spotify has been forced to issue a password reset for users after admitting that their information was exposed to some of the firm’s third-party business partners. The music streaming giant said in a customer data breach notification sent to the California attorney general that the privacy...

Current and likely future cyber-attack trends were highlighted by Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor, Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group (UK) during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. Through its analysis, Microsoft found that phishing and business email compromise (BEC)...

Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to...

Over 45 million medical imaging files are freely accessible on unprotected servers, according to a new investigation by CybelAngel. The researchers discovered that a huge range of sensitive medical images, including X-rays and CT scans, can be accessed without the requirement for a username...

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly dangerous to organizations and individuals alike, according to Chief Supt. Andrew Gould, national cybercrime programme lead at the National Police Chiefs’ Council speaking during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. One reason for this is that cybercrime is...

Almost three-quarters of businesses admit that tracking of customer data happens, but without consent. According to research from Zoho Corp, a survey of 1400 business leaders about third party ad tracking found 100% of respondents said their companies allow it, and 57% are “comfortable” or...

Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. The EU's chief data watchdog today announced that it has issued an administrative fine of 450,000 euros ($547,000) to the social media titan for being too...

A hospital in California has notified 67,000 patients that their personal data may have been exposed in a cyber-attack. In a letter dated December 8, Sonoma Valley Hospital told patients that it was one of several American healthcare providers victimized two months ago in a wide-sweeping...

An Ohio man has admitted to conspiring with his spouse to steal scientific trade secrets from a children's hospital and sell them to the People's Republic of China. Former Dublin resident Yu Zhou and his 47-year-old wife, Li Chen, confessed to establishing a company in China to personally...

The past 12 months have seen a record number of CVEs published by the US authorities, the fourth year in a row volumes have risen. As of December 15, the number of vulnerabilities in production code discovered and assigned a CVE number by the US-CERT Vulnerability Database, topped the 2019...

New account fraud surged by 28% year-on-year in the UK as global rates fell by nearly the same amount, according to new data from Jumio. The online verification firm analyzed tens of millions of global transactions over the past year up to November, to compile its annual Holiday Fraud Report...

Abertay University has been named among the first eight UK universities to be awarded Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Abertay University is the first university in Scotland to receive the Academic Centre of Excellence in...

Microsoft is preparing to quarantine malicious versions of the SolarWinds Orion application used in recent nation state attacks, in a move that may crash systems. The computing giant had previously released detections to alert customers of its Windows Defender security product if they were...

Cyber-attacks are becoming easier to conduct while conversely security is getting increasingly difficult, according to Kevin Curran, senior IEEE member and professor of cybersecurity, Ulster University, during a virtual media roundtable. “Any company you can think of has had a data breach,” he...

Tech firm Cloudhouse Technologies has announced the acquisition of UpGuard Core, an infrastructure monitoring platform previously owned by UpGuard Inc. Cloudhouse said the move will help enable its customers to find, manage and resolve configuration and compliance issues throughout their IT...

A carefully coordinated cyber-attack on Lithuania that occurred last week has been described by the republic's defense minister as one of the "most complex" security incidents to target the Baltic state in recent history. On the night of December 9, cyber-criminals breached multiple content...

Refinitiv has added to its cybercrime-fighting capabilities by acquiring an American digital identity, payments verification, and fraud prevention company. The definitive agreement to acquire Giact Systems, LLC ("GIACT") was announced on November 2. News that the planned deal had officially...

A group of big-name security and technology vendors, non-profits and other industry stakeholders have come together to create a new group focused on combatting ransomware. The Ransomware Task Force (RTF) is the brainchild of Bay Area firm the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) and will...