Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is

Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise’s network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the

The Pennsylvania’s Office of Attorney General (OAG) is blaming a digital blackout of its services on a “cyber incident.” The OAG posted a statement to

In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they’ve “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing millions of dollars

Business Security Does your business truly understand its dependencies, and how to mitigate the risks posed by an attack on them? Tony Anscombe 12 Aug

Prolific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to have come together in a new Telegram channel that shares news of their exploits. The

Hyundai is charging UK customers £49 ($66) for a security upgrade to prevent thieves from bypassing its car locks. The offer is available to Ioniq

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Analysis The Home Office’s war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is starting to look like

Automating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment. Researchers with RSAC Labs and George Mason University say that AI

Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088,

The attacks used spearphishing campaigns to target financial, manufacturing, defense, and logistics companies in Europe and Canada, ESET research finds 11 Aug 2025 ESET researchers

The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole

Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides,

Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK’s tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks

Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move

DEF CON While AI was on everyone’s lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black

British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers. John Lyttle, one of