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Microsoft is launching a new version of Skype this week, built specifically for freelancers and business owners. The company is launching the new service, dubbed Skype Professional Account, as a limited preview in the United States. Skype Professional Account will be...

Equifax, the credit reference agency, has warned investors that profits have tumbled in the aftermath of Septembers cyber attack. The attack exposed confidential data in excess of more than 15 million UK accounts and in the region of 145 million Americans. In a...

Cyber-thieves grab almost 250,000 valid log-in names and passwords for Google accounts every week, suggests research. The study by Google and UC Berkeley looked at the ways email and other accounts get hijacked. It used 12 months of log-in and account data found on...

Cyber criminals looking to make a quick buck have increasingly turned to ransomware in recent years. More patient types are working a more elaborate scheme that's yielding paydays of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It all centers around works...

Businesses only have six months to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) however according to research conducted by cyber security firm Trend Micro, there's a great deal of confusion among businesses about such regulations. The study quizzed more...

The threat of ransomware, when hackers infect devices with a virus and hold data hostage until a sum of money has been paid, is only getting worse. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global ransomware damage costs are predicted to exceed $5 billion (£38 billion) in...

Last week, users of the Mac and Linux versions of the Tor private web browser were plagued with a flaw that resulted in their IP dresses being leaked onto the internet Every time a user clicked onto links starting with file://, as opposed to https:// and http://, the...

The iPhone X is here however if you have not pre-ordered or staked a spot on line at an Apple Store you probably won't be able to get one. Based on its unconventional marketing push, Apple really really wants you to want to buy one, even if you don't actually intend...

2017 may go down as the year of ransomware, with major attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya making headlines around the world. However it is the latter which has taken top spot in a report by one of the world's top security companies, emerging on top of 2017's...

Cybersecurity at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have faced mounting threats, escalating attack damages and the rapid emergence of new types of attacks this year. Yet, despite clear evidence that the overwhelming majority of SMB cyber attacks result from poor...