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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...

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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...

A majority of UK businesses are failing to adequately train their remote working employees to spot security threats, according to new research from iomart. The cloud services company based its Cyber Security Insights Report on the views of 1167 UK workers at C-level, director, manager and...

Microsoft, Google, Cisco and a host of other tech giants have added their names to a legal filing supporting Facebook’s case against controversial spyware developer NSO Group. The social network took the Israeli firm to court after alleging that the latter exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp...

Security firm Cybereason has announced a new partnership with Oracle to enhance protection for customers in the face of a growing cyber-threat landscape. Firstly, it has adopted the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its automated Cyber Defense Platform. Cybereason said this will improve...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported 17 serious data breaches during the last financial year, according to official figures analysed by the Parliament Street think tank. The UK government department responsible for running the country’s justice system revealed in its annual report 2019-20...

A virtual private network (VPN) used by some of the world's leading cyber-criminals has been shut down in an international law enforcement action led by German police. The Safe-Inet service was deactivated yesterday as part of Operation Nova, a coordinated effort that involved the Federal...

A computer programmer from Ohio who lied to federal agents about his involvement with an illegal online marketplace has been sentenced to prison. Michael R. Weigand, also known by his online pseudonyms "Shabang" and “~Shabang~,” concealed his work for illicit black marketplace Silk Road when...

Scammers are impersonating New York State's Department of Labor to steal personal information from state residents seeking to claim money from a COVID relief fund. Targets are sent an email bearing the state logo that appears to come from “[email protected].” The email states that by...

The US government has urged domestic businesses not to invest in Chinese IT kit or data services over fears companies there will be coerced by the Communist Party into enabling cyber-espionage. The business advisory from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarified what many have known...

Computer users can be manipulated into divulging more information than they would normally simply by the layout of webpages, new research has revealed. A team at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) presented its study, Online Disclosure Depends on How You Ask for Information, at...

A healthcare technology company leaked 12 million records on patients including highly sensitive diagnoses, before the exposed cloud server was struck by the infamous “meow” attacker, researchers have revealed. A team at SafetyDetectives led by Anurag Sen discovered the leaky Elasticsearch...