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Hackers and cybercrime prevention

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Boots and Tesco loyalty card schemes plagued by security issues

  High-street retailers deal with fraudulent attempts to access the accounts of thousands of customers

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Cathay Pacific hit with £500,000 data protection fine from ICO over 2018 breach

  Airline receives maximum financial penalty under Data Protection Act for data breach that led to nine million customers having their personal data accessed by hackers

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme

  The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  F-Secure reports a steep rise in hacking attempts

  An increase in distributed denial of service attacks pushes up the volume of identified rogue internet traffic to almost three billion

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Horangi and Tokio Marine team up on cyber security services

  Singapore-based Horangi will provide penetration testing, among other cyber security services, to Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore’s cyber risk insurance clients

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Singapore among world’s top sources of online threats

  Singapore remained a hotspot for originating cyber attacks in 2019, with 11 million attacks launched from servers in the city-state

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  The Security Interviews: Inside the world of bug bounties

  You may not make a million as a bug bounty hunter, but you might help remove some of the stigma that persists around cyber security, says HackerOne’s Shlomie Liberow

• March 01, 2020 01 Mar'20

  Data breaches in Australia showing no signs of abating

  Compromised login credentials and human error were the most common causes of data breaches reported under Australia’s notifiable data breach regime from July to December 2019

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  NCSC makes ransomware attack guidance more accessible

  Following a swathe of high-profile ransomware attacks, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has made changes to its guidance, emphasising the importance of offline backups

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  WikiLeaks founder Assange is well enough to participate in extradition proceedings, says judge

  A judge dismissed claims that Julian Assange’s vulnerable psychological state would prevent him from taking part in his extradition hearing to face espionage and computer misuse charges in the US

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Clearview hack fuels debate over facial recognition

  Customers of Clearview AI, a controversial startup that scrapes and sells billions of photos of people from social media to police forces, have found themselves at the centre of a major data breach

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Redcar & Cleveland Council confirms ransomware attack

  Local authority’s systems are still offline nearly three weeks after being attacked

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices

  Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

  Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Fake CDNs obscuring credit card fraudsters

  Fake content delivery networks and ngrok servers are being pressed into service to obscure credit card skimming activities