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British Man Pleads Guilty To Infamous Twitter Hack
Man alleged to have carried out 2020 hack of public figures including Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, pleads guilty in US
Banks Warn Of Sharp Rise In Online Fraud
Banks warn of surging fake sale listings, impersonation and investment scams with many scams originating on social media
Former Uber Security Chief Sentenced To Probation Over Hack
San Francisco judge sentences former Uber security chief to three years' probation for role in covering up massive 2016 data breach
Google Deploys Passkeys, Cites ‘Beginning Of End’ For Passwords
No need for a password to login into Google accounts, as they now support passkeys to replace passwords and 2FA
Silicon Insights: The Past, Present and Future of Account Based Marketing: Part 1
In part one of this two-part interview, Charlotte Kan speaks to James Gill, SVP of Growth at The Marketing Practice to gain his insights into current marketing trends. How technology is impacting all marketers and what the future holds ...
Quarter of Staff Duplicate Passwords, Survey Finds
World Password Day. Survey from law firm Womble Bond Dickinson finds 25 percent of staff duplicate their passwords
T-Mobile Discloses Second Data Breach…This Year
Surely not. Second data breach of 2023, as number of security breaches continue to pile up at US mobile operator T-Mobile
BlackBerry To Review Strategic Options
Board of directors at BlackBerry to review firm's 'strategic alternatives', including possible separation of some of its businesses
Microsoft Says No More Feature Updates For Windows 10
Current version of Windows 10 (version 22H2) will be the last version of Windows 10 OS, with support ending in 2025
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Securing applications in the era of DevOps
With the adoption of DevOps practices, organizations have dramatically increased release velocity to drive digital transformation and meet changing customer and business needs. Deploying cloud-native technologies and taking advantage o ...
US Sanctions Two For Aiding North Korean Crypto Thieves
US sanctions two China-based cryptocurrency traders for allegedly helping launder funds stolen by North Korean hacking gang Lazarus Group
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Retail technologists need a new approach to overcome growing application security challenges
Across the retail industry, there is a growing sense of unease that organizations are becoming less secure and more vulnerable to emerging cybercrime threats. The shift to cloud native applications and architecture over the past two ...
Celebrities Lose Blue Ticks, As Twitter Purges Legacy Verified Accounts
Well known celebrities and public figures lose legacy blue tick verification status, as Ricky Gervais etc mock Elon Musk's move
Russia-linked Hackers Want To ‘Destroy’ UK, Minister Warns
Cybercrime groups linked to Russia are 'ideologically motivated' and want to 'disrupt or destroy' the UK, minister is to warn
Netflix Ends DVD By Post, Amid Password-Sharing Crackdown
Mostly positive results from Netflix, as streaming giant winds down legacy DVD via post program and expands password crackdown
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Why technologists need to adopt an integrated approach to application security
Across all sectors, it has become an increasingly complex challenge to manage application security, particularly in recent years. Digitization and innovation have led to considerable expansions in attack surfaces, especially in instanc ...
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Public sector IT teams urged to embrace new application security strategies amid growing attack surfaces.
Application security must catch up with the attack surface expansion, which is now a significant problem for many organizations. To guard against this, organizations in the public sector have ramped up their digital transformation prog ...
WhatsApp, Other Messaging Firms Urge Online Safety Bill ‘Rethink’
WhatsApp, six other encrypted messaging firms call for 'urgent rethink' of Online Safety Bill that they say woud weaken user security
Ransomware Hackers Steal Sensitive Charity Data
Londonderry-based IT firm Evide says personal data from charity clients stolen following ransomware attack as organisations warn of fraud risk
Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Often machine learning models don’t have all the information they need to deliver effective insights. In the security space in particular, it’s now possible to build machine learning models that have sensitive information included in t ...
Humans Needed To Avoid Cybersecurity Missteps, Gartner Says
Gartner identifies top cybersecurity trends for 2023, and says organisations need to adopt a human-centric focus to avoid cyber failures
OpenAI To Offer Bug Bounties Up To $20,000
Bug bounty program introduced by OpenAI, to track down and eliminate vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws
Quest Software Podcast: The Democratisation of Data: Episode 2: Legacy Technology – A Burden and a Vulnerability?
In this episode, we are considering Legacy technology and whether this is a burden and vulnerability in building a data-driven enterprise.
How Secure are Composable Architectures?
As composable architectures continue to expand and influence the future of e-commerce, is the security of these technologies being fully considered? Is composable intrinsically more secure than the monolith?
Spyware Used Across 10 Countries, Says Citizen Lab, Microsoft
Journalists, opposition figures and advocacy groups across at least 10 countries hacked by Israeli spyware, research alleges
Sophos Study Finds Most Firms Struggle To Execute Essential Security Tasks
State of cybersecurity report for 2023 from Sophos reveals that majority of businesses find essential security tasks challenging
UK’s National Cyber Force Outlines ‘Responsible’ Cyber Operations
Agency that carries out offensive cyber operations for the UK, reveals it is engaged against Russian, Chinese and other nation-state hackers
Genesis Market Takedown Sees 120 Suspects Arrested
Largest online marketplace selling stolen credentials to criminals worldwide has been taken down in international operation
Leaked Vulkan Files Reveal Kremlin’s Cyberwarfare Tactics
Explosive documents leaked by whistleblower in protest of Kremlin's war in Ukraine, shine a light on Russia's cyberwarfare operations