Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees who say they were sacked without being properly notified, as new owner Elon Musk seeks to cut up to half the company’s global workforce. The mass layoff of around 3,700 employees comes days after the billionaire bought Twitter for $44bn, but according to the […]

The success of high-profile, destructive cyber attacks on operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) has clearly caught the attention of increasingly aggressive nation-state threat actors or advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, which are steadily incorporating them into their playbooks as a valuable weapon of hybrid warfare. In the past year, attacks targeting CNI have […]

Cyber skills shortages have plagued the industry for years – and are not getting any better. Cyber Security Ventures has estimated that there were 3.5 million unfilled cyber roles in 2021 and that this number will stand unchanged in 2025. The problem may at least be stabilising, but it’s still a chronic shortage. The […]

The Cabinet Office’s joint venture with Ark Data Centres will continue to play host to the government’s non-cloud workloads for another seven years, as revealed in a contract award notice that confirms no other firms were ever in the running for the £250m contract. The joint venture, known as Crown Hosting Data Centres, was […]

Scotland’s The Data Lab has announced an updating and expansion of a data leaders education programme that it piloted in 2021 to coincide with its Data Summit conference in Edinburgh. The course is aimed at company executives rather than data scientists or analysts. The Data Lab is a one of seven Scottish-government-backed  innovation centres, […]

Ransomware has become increasingly professionalised with organised threat actors, sophisticated tools and new commercial models, such as ransomware as a service (RaaS), driving economies of scale. The silver lining is that the grave impact of ransomware on the business has propelled cyber to board level. Ransomware has the potential to cause irreversible business damage, so […]

Microsoft has extended a commitment to offer technology support free of charge to Ukraine until December 2023, topping up over $400m it has spent since February with additional aid valued at roughly $100m (£89.3m). This will ensure that government agencies, critical national infrastructure (CNI) and other sectors in Ukraine can continue to operate their […]

Trustpilot’s Stu Hirst is an experienced information security professional whose motivation lies in using a range of tools and techniques to keep his online business safe and secure from external predators. “The internet is such a wild, wild place that trust is an imperative for traversing your way through it,” says the chief information […]

What is Adobe Flash? Adobe Flash is a software platform used to create rich digital content containing animation, graphic effects, streaming video and other interactive elements to deliver engaging user experiences over many platforms, including desktops and mobile devices. Originally developed by FutureWave, Flash was first known as FutureSplash Animator. Then, when Macromedia purchased the […]

From bots to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, web scraping to application programming interface (API) abuse, and account takeover to credit card fraud, a range of increasingly automated cyber threats are set to present a serious challenge to the e-commerce sector as it heads into its busiest time of year. Although such issues are a […]