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16th March 2023

Cyber attribution: Vigilance or distraction?

16th March 2023

Navigating the future of digital identity

21st February 2023

Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It’s a thing

15th February 2023

Experts Warn of ‘Beep’ – A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

30th April 2021

Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach

27th April 2021

Ransomware Recovery Costs Near $2M

4th February 2021

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

27th October 2020

78% of Microsoft 365 admins don’t activate MFA

22nd October 2020

To Err Is Human: Misconfigurations & Employee Neglect Are a Fact of Life

3rd October 2020

Burger King used the simplest tech to expose McDonald’s customer service

22nd September 2020

Details of 540,000 sports referees taken in failed ransomware attack

16th September 2020

Popular shopping site leaks miners’ data in 6TB of database mess up

15th September 2020

Research Finds Nearly 800,000 Access Keys Exposed Online

4th September 2020

Warner Music Group Admits Breach

28th August 2020

Southern Water customers could view others’ personal data by tweaking URL parameters

27th August 2020

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts

4th August 2020

Leaky S3 buckets have gotten so common that they’re being found by the thousands now, with lots of buried secrets

27th July 2020

Source code of over 50 high profile organizations leaked online

23rd July 2020

Twilio Security Incident Shows Danger of Misconfigured S3 Buckets

21st July 2020

Software firm leaks 25GB worth of subscription & Ancestry.com user data

20th July 2020

Lock down your data – or get the cheque book out: ICO privacy violation fines are rising, say lawyers

15th July 2020

New Attack Technique Uses Misconfigured Docker API

2nd July 2020

22,900 MongoDB Databases Affected in Ransomware Attack

19th June 2020

Lion faces further ‘setbacks’ as it recovers from ransomware attack

18th June 2020

83% of Global 2000 enterprises have not adopted basic domain security practices

16th June 2020

Oracle E-Business Suite Flaws Let Hackers Hijack Business Operations

10th June 2020

Jenkins team avoids security disaster after partial user database loss

8th June 2020

IT Services Firm Conduent Felled by Maze Ransomware

5th June 2020

Fitness Depot hit by data breach after ISP fails to ‘activate the antivirus’

1st June 2020

Joomla team discloses data breach

11th May 2020

British government information leak triggers Data Security panic

5th May 2020

Adult Streaming Site Leaks Data on Millions of Members

3rd May 2020

Ghost blogging platform servers hacked and infected with crypto-miner

3rd May 2020

Hackers breach LineageOS servers via unpatched vulnerability

1st May 2020

French Newspaper Le Figaro Leaks 7.4 Billion Records

30th April 2020

In the cloud, who can hear your developers scream?

25th April 2020

Hackers deface church service on Zoom with child abuse content

24th April 2020

Hackers setup fake NHS website to spread malware

23rd April 2020

Hackers Trick 3 British Private Equity Firms Into Sending Them $1.3 Million

21st April 2020

Hacker returns $25 million after their IP address is exposed

21st April 2020

Attackers Aim at Software Supply Chain with Package Typosquatting

17th April 2020

That critical VMware vuln allowed anyone on your network to create new admin users, no creds needed

14th April 2020

You’re One Misconfiguration Away from a Cloud-Based Data Breach

9th April 2020

A billion-dollar US firm caught exposing highly sensitive database online

7th April 2020

CSIRO looks to drones, apps for survey success

7th April 2020

Myth busting

7th April 2020

‘Major data breaches are far too common, with human error often being a cause’

7th April 2020

The Five Trends To Future-Proof Your Business

6th April 2020

4 Tips for Keeping Your Data Secure While Everyone Works From Home

6th April 2020

Why Humans Will Always Be Phishing’s Weakest Link

6th April 2020

5 Essential Cyber Hygiene Best Practices for Small Businesses

3rd April 2020

While nearly 90% of companies are backing up data, only 41% do it daily

13th March 2020

Novi Sad cyber attack highlights need to take data security seriously

12th March 2020

Achieving data protection by design – better late than never!

11th March 2020

How to prevent the data breach that keeps on happening

10th March 2020

VAT software supplier exposed data of millions

10th March 2020

Human Error Linked to 60% of Security Breaches

10th March 2020

Human Error Linked to 60% of Security Breaches

6th March 2020

Like a Virgin, hacked for the very first time… UK broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters’ records into wrong hands from insecure database

5th March 2020

Virgin Media data breach affects 900,000 people

4th March 2020

Let’s Encrypt to revoke 3 million certificates on March 4 due to software bug

2nd March 2020

Voice assistant devices can be manipulated with ultrasonic waves

2nd March 2020

DoppelPaymer ransomware hits SpaceX, Tesla & Boeing’s parts manufacturer

29th February 2020

Shocking TikTok video showing teen girls dancing and giggling before an abortion has more than 4 MILLION views

29th February 2020

Airlines divert flights in wake of heightened Middle East tensions

28th February 2020

Israeli firm leaks database with addresses of millions of Americans

28th February 2020

Cyber risk – are your employees your weakest link? – Lexology

27th February 2020

Police lose evidence to Ryuk ransomware attack; suspects walk free

27th February 2020

Data Loss Protection for the Hybrid Cloud

27th February 2020

Demolition crew says ‘we made a mistake’ after knocking down WRONG house that had stood for nearly 100 years

27th February 2020

Most People Think This Is A Smart Habit, But It’s Actually Brain-Damaging

26th February 2020

Ordnance Survey Breach Hits Employee Data

25th February 2020

UK Financial Watchdog Admits Data Blunder

22nd February 2020

Federal Agency that maintains secure communication for Trump got hacked

21st February 2020

FTSE 100 And Fortune 500 Businesses Join Forces To Tackle The Human-Centered Security Problem

20th February 2020

Scam Alert: You’ve Been Selected for ‘Like of the Year 2020’ Cash Prizes

18th February 2020

Plastic surgery tech firm leaks images of 100,000s of customers

15th February 2020

PhotoSquared app leaks photos & home addresses of 100,000s of users

13th February 2020

Cosmetic giant Estée Lauder exposed 440 million records online

12th February 2020

Jailcore database leaks PII of inmates & correctional officers across US

12th February 2020

The rise of human-driven fraud attacks

11th February 2020

App Used by Israel’s Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters

11th February 2020

Pwned Passwords: The Epicenter of Your Cybersecurity Storm

11th February 2020

In 2019, a total of 7,098 reported breaches exposed 15.1 billion records

10th February 2020

#cybersecurity | hacker | Spoiler alert: Attack simulation isn’t ethical hacking

10th February 2020

HANA XSA: Securing your application, and ensuring a good User Experience (UX) – Part 1

10th February 2020

Starliner snafu could’ve been worse: Software errors plague Boeing’s Calamity Capsule

6th February 2020

Cyberattackers decreased their activity at the end of 2019, but only to change tactics

5th February 2020

Oh ****… Sudo has a ‘make anyone root’ bug that needs to be patched – if you’re unlucky enough to enable pwfeedback

4th February 2020

Israeli government’s Gov.il DNS server found vulnerable

4th February 2020

Israeli government’s Gov.il DNS server found vulnerable

3rd February 2020

‘Cyber security incident’ takes its Toll on Aussie delivery giant as box-tracking boxen yanked offline

23rd October 2019

How to remove human error from the cyber risk equation