Manchester United victims of CYBER ATTACK in ‘sophisticated operation by organised criminals’… but media channels and personal data are unaffected and club insist match against West Brom on Saturday WILL go ahead Manchester United confirmed on Friday night a cyber attack on their systems Red Devils said in a statement they had ‘procedures in place … Read more
The Tell-Tale Shoulder: Cyber experts claim they can read what you are typing during Zoom video calls just by analysing your upper arm movements Researchers from the US wrote software than can analyse shoulder movements It translates tiny movements on video into the original directions in real space From this, it can guess the words … Read more
Lloyds Bank working on £500m technology project that includes better protection for customers from hackers By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 Lloyds Bank is working on a £500million technology project that includes better protection for customers from hackers. It is understood … Read more
Six Russian military officers have been charged in the US with carrying out ‘cynical and reckless’ global cyber attacks, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. British and US officials said the attacks were conducted by Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. In an indictment unsealed today, the US … Read more
With Covid-19 forcing millions of people to work from home, cyber security – defending computer systems, networks, programs, devices and data from malicious cyber-attacks – has become a priority for workers and businesses alike. Even before coronavirus, there was already a massive growth in the number of people working online and the pandemic has speeded … Read more
More than half of nation-state cyber attacks in the last year have originated from Russia, Microsoft has revealed in a new report. According to the firm’s annual Digital Defense Report, 52 per cent of state-sponsored hacking attempts from July 2019 and June 2020 were Russian in origin. Exactly a quarter during this time period came … Read more
Businesses are accused of failing to protect our data from cyber crooks as new figures reveal half the victims of data breaches get targeted by fraudsters Shocking statistics fuel concerns that companies don’t take security seriously Hacked email addresses can be used for phishing attacks by crooks to con victims Survey finds 46 per cent … Read more
Pension cons are not the only way fraudsters can now steal your investments in an instant. The pandemic has seen a rise in sophisticated scams targeted at investors looking to make their money go further. Industry body UK Finance says British savers lost £55.2 million to such scams in the first half of 2020 — … Read more
Hackers are exploiting the pandemic to launch cyber-attacks on some of the UK’s biggest companies. Firms distracted by the crisis are more vulnerable than ever. In May, easyJet revealed that it had been the victim of a cyber-attack, which had compromised the details of 9.8 million customers. It said 2,200 credit card details were accessed, … Read more
Government is braced for Extinction Rebellion CYBER ATTACK over the weekend as climate change activists restart campaign after coronavirus lockdown Parliamentary committee officials warned social media channels may be target Extinction Rebellion is restarting its disruption campaign this weekend Police arrested two climate activists today at oil firm Shell’s main London office By David Wilcock, Whitehall … Read more