News Articles

Doing an online search for Avril Lavigne is more likely to land your device with a virus than searching for any other celebrity.

Equifax has admitted that 400,000 UK residents may have been affected by a major data breach from July.

McAfee has introduced a range of new features to its home consumer security software in a bid to better address the threats facing today’s connected users.

A new identification system should be introduced in light of the recent high profile data breaches, according to a professor at Lewis University.

Credit reporting agency Equifax has suffered a massive cyber attack that may have affected up to 143 million people in the US.

More than 700 million email addresses have been released publicly following a massive data breach caused by the Onliner spambot.

Free software aimed at improving the security of ‘smart’ home and Internet of Things (IoT) devices has just been released by Kaspersky Lab.

Third-party replacement screens for damaged smartphones can be used by hackers to steal data, according to new research.

Cyber security firms are struggling with a “chronic shortage” of qualified staff, according to Steve Morgan, founder of market analyst Cybersecurity Ventures.

British businesses must do more to protect themselves from online threats after research revealed that two in three bosses at UK’s largest companies are not trained to deal with a cyber attack.

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has revealed how it helped bring Britain’s new flagship carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth into service.

HBO’s Facebook and Twitter accounts have been compromised in the latest of a string of cyber security woes plaguing the US TV production company.

Hackers have leaked unaired episodes of new TV shows produced by HBO after ransom demands were ignored.

A new freemium app designed to protect data transmitted over the internet by Android users has been made available by Kaspersky Lab.

A new surveillance malware has been discovered that provides an almost undetectable Mac backdoor.

A raft of new and enhanced malicious tools arrived in the second quarter of 2017, including three zero-day exploits and two unprecedented attacks (WannaCry and ExPetr).

TalkTalk has been fined £100,000 after failing to look after its customers’ data and risking it falling into the hands of scammers and fraudsters.

New malware designed to steal the credentials of online banking customers has been detected.

Cyber defender Marcus Hutchins is to appear in a Las Vegas court on charges of selling malware.