2025 forecast to be boom year for cybersecurity
California-based cybersecurity goliath Palo Alto Networks has issued a bullish revenue forecast based on a perceived rising global demand for
US Healthcare companies on high cyber-alert
While the assassination of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of central New York last week has been
The data currency time bomb
Corporations are not only amassing huge amounts of personal data on their customers as never before but also trading that
Big Tech’s rapidly-shrinking green credentials
Big Tech is currently performing a rather awkward fan dance, trying to cover up its rape and pillage of the
Cybercriminals are now grooming US and UK teens
By adopting such Nineteenth-Century criminal grooming methods to the online world of the Twenty-First Century, today’s threat actors are effectively
EU AI Act to act as a template for other
The European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which came into effect earlier this month, is now set to act
Exclusive: CrowdStrike crash is only the beginning…
The famous “blue screen of death,” witnessed with horror by 8.5 million Microsoft Windows users worldwide as a result of
Exclusive: Hostile nations ramp up attacks on US infrastructure
Recent reports that ransomware attacks on industrial organizations increased by over 50 percent in 2023 represent only “the tip of
Exclusive: Expanding AI data centers have become tempting targets
Big Tech’s rapidly-expanding server farms are becoming increasingly tempting targets for ransomware gangs. In their Gadarene rush to be first
Exclusive: Deepfakes being used to manipulate share prices
Cash-rich cybercriminals are learning that the easiest way to make money on the stock markets while laundering cash at the
Exclusive: Banks face a growing physical security threat
Banks, traditionally the main target for cybercriminal groups, are now being attacked not only by new online hacking techniques but
FBI takes down BreachForums -again!
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forum BreachForums after taking down its website last
US Data Compromises Double Year-on-Year
It's official – the US is losing the battle against cybercrime. The first quarter of this year has seen 841
AI could overload US power grid
Silicon Valley’s tech giants are fond of publicizing their green credentials by installing everything from waterless urinals to solar power.
Gen Z’ers ditch smartphone services
Silicon Valley has a new problem - a generation that is turning off its digital lifestyle and ditching its smartphones.
Corruption allegations overshadow EU cyber rulings
The European Union (EU) has adopted its first Cybersecurity Certificate scheme to boost cybersecurity in products and services sold within
Supply-chain attacks impacted 54m victims in 2023
Last year saw exponential growth in the number of organizations impacted by supply-chain attacks, although the increase in the number
Cyber-gangs to launch media offensive in 2024
Cybercrime, which has become a multi-trillion-dollar industry over recent decades, became increasingly sophisticated during 2023, with criminal groups now adopting
Storm gathers over the cloud
News of the mass exploitation of ownCloud customers as a result of a zero-day vulnerability follows revelations earlier this month
AI “overrated and overhyped” say cybercriminals
The verdict on artificial intelligence (AI) from the real experts is finally in; professional cybercriminal fraternities have judged AI to
Beware the poisoned search
Conducting an innocent online search for any business-related document, such as a legal contract, has become as potentially risky as
Interpol demands global action to tackle cybercrime
Interpol is demanding that the world’s governments and business leaders act together to stem the rapidly rising global tide of
West’s intelligence services join forces with Big Tech
In what the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is billing as “their first-ever joint public appearance”, the heads of
Cost of texting fraud rises fivefold in three years
The official cost of texting fraud in 2022 rose to $330 million, representing a fivefold increase since 2019, with an
EU wakes up to the global supply chain threat
Systems powered by artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cutting-edge microchips, together with genetic engineering, are being viewed with suspicion by
Unknown threat actor targets the US Red Cross
The cyber-war just got dirtier. A year or two back, an age in cyber-years, even the most ruthless cyber-gangs avoided
Cloud security compromised by constant upgrades
There is mounting evidence that companies may have been naive in accepting Big Tech’s optimistic assurances that sensitive data can
“Jailbreaking” – cybercrime’s latest buzzword
When cybercriminals speak about “jailbreaking,” they are not discussing springing someone from prison. It refers instead to circumventing safety restrictions
Europol aims to dismantle the EU’s Euro188bn criminal economy
The European Police Office (Europol)’s first-ever threat assessment on the topic, ‘The other side of the coin: an analysis of
China uses AI to power new propaganda campaign
China has stepped up its propaganda and disinformation war with the US in the latest escalation of the Chinese Communist
Moriarty of cybercrime strikes again
The world’s most-wanted cybercriminal, Russia’s Mikhail Matveev, who already has a $10 million dollar bounty issued by the FBI, is
Growing diversity in cyber, but still a long way to
The percentage of ethnic minorities working in cyber in the UK has seen an upward trend over the last three
Healthcare sector attacks on the rise
The healthcare sector is coming under increasingly severe pressure from cyber-attacks. On the heels of news earlier last week that
Threat actors’ preferred names? Microsoft, Meta, and Google
Microsoft, PayPal, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are some of the world's most respected brands, but they're also the most impersonated.
Sextortion scams soar by 178%
Security researchers, ESTET reports a 178% increase in sextortion emails between the first half of 2022 and the first six
US space industry vulnerable to supply-chain attacks
US intelligence agencies and the US Air Force issued a joint advisory warning space innovation and assets are now prime
Connected EVs represent latest geopolitical cyber threat
Western governments’ stop-and-start race towards ‘net zero’ carbon emissions has produced a global cybersecurity crisis as a potentially hostile power,
Companies slow to take the fight to cybercriminals
According to a study conducted in June, “Threat intelligence: Eyes on the enemy,” by threat intelligence firm Cyber Risk Analytics- 1
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