If you are reading this, you are almost certainly doing so without realizing you could be leaving the door open to hackers. New research has revealed that an astonishing 86% of broadband users have little idea about cybersecurity, or at least the security of the device they use to connect to the internet. That’s the […]
Authorities charged Robert Westbrook on Friday with multiple counts of fraud after evidence showed he allegedly hacked the emails of senior executives from at least five U.S.-based companies and read their inboxes. Westbrook, 39, is accused of then trading ahead of the companies’ earnings results, reaping millions in illicit profits. According to a U.S. district […]
Wifi networks at a number of train stations across the UK have been suspended after a “cybersecurity incident”. Nineteen stations including London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street had their wifi services suspended on Wednesday night after the incident. They were still down on Thursday morning. The Manchester Evening News reported that passengers accessing […]
MoneyGram International is continuing work to restore its global money transfer service after taking the product offline several days ago because of a cybersecurity issue, the company reiterated on Tuesday. “Once all systems are fully operational, transactions that are currently pending will be made available to customers,” The Dallas-based company posted Tuesday morning in an […]
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the global IT outage in July which grounded flights and delayed medical treatments, will face questions in US congress later on Tuesday. The incident, sparked by a flawed software update rolled out by the US firm, crippled around eight and a half million computers running Microsoft software, […]
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director launched a program Wednesday to help fill the gap of about 500,000 available cybersecurity jobs across the country. Service for America, a program developed alongside the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, is a recruitment and hiring push that will help […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Flax Typhoon” and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday. Wray, at a cybersecurity conference in Washington, said Flax Typhoon was being run by a Chinese company called the Integrity […]
The U.K. national fraud and cyber reporting centre operated by law enforcement, Action Fraud, has issued a warning for iPhone users after it received more than 1,800 reports of a nasty new Apple ID password-stealing phishing campaign. “Your iCloud Storage Is Nearing Capacity—Please Click Here To Upgrade” The emails being sent to iPhone users through […]
Newly published research has revealed how threat actors are using a devious new technique to force Chrome browser users to reveal their Google account passwords out of nothing more than sheer frustration. The credential-stealing campaign, which uses malware called StealC, locks the user’s browser in kiosk mode while blocking both the F11 and ESC keys […]
Welcome to the Digital and Data Monitor. In this edition, we look at how governments are working to embed cybersecurity by design and the latest initiatives to implement digital ID systems while also building trust with citizens. Later this month, Public Service Data Live will take place in London and we interview one of the […]