Infosecurity News

  1. EU Proposes Joint Cyber Unit Amid Rising Attacks

    The proposed Joint Cyber Unit aims to enable a coordinated response to cyber incidents

  2. UK Banks Drive £77 Million Reduction in European Fraud Losses

    British lenders helped continent despite rises in many countries

  3. Nearly 10% of SMB Defense Contractors Show Evidence of Compromise

    BlueVoyant uncovers widespread cyber-risk and malicious activity in US defense supply chain

  4. Councils Reported Over 700 Data Breaches in 2020

    Redscan study claims 40% of UK councils spent no money on security training

  5. French Teens on Trial for Cyber-bullying

    Landmark Parisian trial could mean prison for teens convicted of online abuse

  6. NIST Publishes Ransomware Guidance

    Draft Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Ransomware Risk Management released

  7. SEC Probes SolarWinds Breach Disclosure Failures

    Companies being investigated on suspicion of hiding the fact they got hacked

  8. New Tool Launched to Remove Nude Images of Children Online

    Children worried about nude content appearing online can now access a tool to restrict content being shared

  9. Fifth of Google Play Apps Violate Child Protection Law

    One in five apps designed for children contravened the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

  10. Ransomware Payments Could Be Tax Deductible - Report

    Another silver lining for firms that choose to pay their extorters

  11. Three-Quarters of SMBs Can't Repel Cyber-Attacks

    Two-fifths admit alert overload is a significant challenge

  12. California Cops Launch ALPR Transparency Portal

    Piedmont police share data on Automated License Plate Recognition technology use

  13. Ohio Medicaid Provider Suffers Data Breach

    Personal data could have been stolen in unauthorized access incident at Maximus

  14. Finger Scanning Costs Six Flags $36m

    American amusement park agrees to $36m settlement over use of finger-scan entry gates

  15. UK Parliamentary Staffers Lost 96 Devices in Past Two Years

    Fears have been raised that sensitive public data has fallen into the hands of cyber-criminals

  16. Amazon Prime Day - Beware of Phishing Deluge, Experts Warn

    Shoppers urged not to click on links in unsolicited emails and texts

  17. Over 30,000 Fertility Clinic Patients Hit by Ransomware Data Breach

    Atlanta-based Reproductive Biology Associates claims data has been deleted

  18. Nuclear Research Institute Breached by Suspected North Korean Hackers

    South Korea’s KAERI investigating attack that exploited VPN bug

  19. Texan Admits Data Center Bomb Plot

    Wichita Falls man hoped to “kill off 70% of the internet” by obliterating Virginia data center

  20. New Jersey Councilor Charged with Cyber-harassment

    Cape May councilman charged with stalking and cyber-harassing former girlfriend

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