Car dealer Arnold Clark is writing to a number of customers to inform them their personal data was stolen in a cyber attack claimed by the increasingly prolific Play ransomware operation. The 15GB data dump was posted to the dark web by an individual associated with the Play ransomware cartel, and is now understood […]

Financial losses to romance fraud have spiked by 95% across the consumer retail banking sector since the beginning of 2020, according to statistics released by TSB as part of a campaign to draw attention to the problem. In a report released today, the bank revealed that fraudsters posing as potential love interests online scammed […]

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and innovation hub Plexal have selected four startups to join their NCSC for Startups accelerator. Operating from East London’s Olympic Park, Plexal provides a physical working space for startups, and uses its relationships with industry, academia, investors and government to help them develop and ultimately deploy their technologies […]

Cisco has moved to fix two vulnerabilities – one live and one in yet-to-be-released code – that affect a wide range of enterprise and industrial network hardware products and left unchecked could allow attackers to gain persistent root access to the underlying system. Uncovered by Trellix vulnerability researchers Sam Quinn and Kasimir Schulz, the […]

Cloud-related risks are top of the cyber security agenda for senior executives in the UK, according to a PwC study, with 39% expecting such risks to “significantly affect” their organisation in the coming months, more so than other forms of cyber risk emanating from other sources, such as physical endpoints, web applications, or software […]

As the economic climate continues to be difficult, many in the technology sector are suspecting redundancies, according to IT jobs portal CWJobs. When it asked 2,000 tech workers in the UK about their 2023 plans, CWJobs found 53% were already applying for new jobs in case their current position gets the chop. “Tech workers […]

Two fraudulent cryptocurrency investment applications that were able to bypass the protections put in place by Apple and Google to protect downloads from their mobile app stores have been removed, after being identified as involved in a so-called CyptoRom scam by researchers at Sophos. In a report released today, Sophos senior threat researcher Jagadeesh […]

Concerns about the cooling system setup in one of the datacentres used to host key healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were raised in 2018 and never fully acted on, a report into the heatwave-related server farm outage it suffered in the summer of 2022 has revealed. As previously reported […]

Fintech giant PayPal has said it will cut 2,000 jobs – about 7% of staff – as it expects the current challenging economic conditions to continue. PayPal is a well-established fintech business, founded in 1999 by entrepreneurs including Elon Musk. PayPal is one if the darlings of the global world, growing fast as consumers […]

Innovative Technology is rolling out its MyCheckr age estimation devices to shops and pubs to reduce the risk of selling alcohol to underage customers, following participation in UK government trials. Throughout 2022, the Home Office and the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) led nine trials of age estimation and verification technologies for […]