Cybersecurity education should start early and happen both at home and in schools, but it needs to go beyond the usual advice about strong passwords, antivirus software, or password manager. Those basics still matter, but they don’t fully prepare young people for the reality of how life online actually unfolds. For many kids, the internet...Read More
Cybercriminals are not waiting for kick-off. FortiGuard Labs has exposed a highly co-ordinated cybercrime ecosystem leveraging lookalike domains, malicious Android app downloads from unofficial sources (third party APK downloads) and fake social media channels across Facebook and Instagram to target unsuspecting fans and organisations. More than 13 000 new Fifa World Cup-themed domains were registered...Read More
If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story of the year. Yes, wars are still raging, the climate keeps worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But running beneath all of it...Read More
A newly released 2026 Digital Risk Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, produced with support from Outtake, finds that organizations are struggling to keep pace with a rapidly evolving digital threat landscape where attackers increasingly target trust, identity, and online reputation rather than traditional infrastructure alone. The research, based on responses from more than 1,100 cybersecurity, fraud,...Read More
Aug. 17, 2024, 2:30 p.m. ET A ransomware group may have leaked personal data for hundreds of thousands of people onto the dark web last week after the group stole data from the city of Columbus in July. But this dark web isn’t a place people can stumble upon. Most people have never been to...Read More
Cybersecurity education should start early and happen both at home and in schools, but it needs to go beyond the usual advice about strong passwords, antivirus software, or password manager. Those basics still matter, but they don’t fully prepare young people for the reality of how life online actually unfolds. For many kids, the internet...Read More
Five young men thought they were going to Cambodia to intern at a casino. Instead they say they became enslaved in one of the world’s most sophisticated fraud networks, an industry that has swindled billions of dollars from Americans and turned Southeast Asia into the online scam capital of the world. Subscribe to read this...Read More
Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform GitHub on Wednesday morning confirmed that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were impacted in a supply chain attack. On Tuesday, the infamous hacking group TeamPCP, known for a series of recent supply chain attacks targeting the open source software community, claimed the hack of 4,000 GitHub internal repositories. Boasting about the incident on...Read More
I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a PIN on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password, and two factor authentication. I get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company’s server is unphishable, and less...Read More
Christian Gaarz, head of software development & commissioning at Zimmermann Today, Zimmermann’s high-precision portal milling machines are complex digital systems. Control systems, industrial PCs and internal networks must be secured in such a way that neither malware can impact nor adjacent company networks are endangered. Cyber resilience is fast becoming an integral part of modern...Read More
