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The fundamental shift to home and remote working over the past 12 months has caused a major headache for cybersecurity professionals. This is because many of them are accustomed to a much more controllable security surface area that office buildings and on-premise...

Microsoft has added a new feature to its 365 Apps which should make it easier to keep staff working even if they can't connect to the internet, plus another option for shared devices. Microsoft's apps generally require customers' devices to connect to the internet at...

Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. The phishing attack The phishing message is delivered via LinkedIn’s...

The use of hidden 'spy pixels' in standard emails is now 'endemic', according to an investigation by email service Hey. Hey analysed its traffic at the BBC's request and discovered that nearly two-thirds of emails sent to users contained invisible spy pixels. Spy...

Microsoft has quietly ported its unified Office app to the iPad, one year to the week after it was released for the iPhone. What took so long? We don’t know, and Microsoft isn’t saying: In fact, there isn’t even an official announcement of the release as I write this....

A new phishing campaign is attempting to lure victims into downloading the latest version of a malware trojan – and it has links to one of the most prolific cyber-criminal operations active in the world today. The Bazar trojan first emerged last year and a successful...

Every month of the year has some sort of tax relevance somewhere in the world, and tax scamming cybercrooks take advantage of the many different regional tax filing seasons to customise their criminality to where you live. In the UK, the 2019/2020 tax year ended on 05...

Apple's forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web surfers from Google's Safe Browsing service, integrated into Safari to spot fraudulent websites. On Wednesday, Maciej Stachowiak, head of WebKit engineering at Apple,...

The new phishing kit “LogoKit” allows cybercriminals to easily deploy the malware on a victim’s device. Threat actors are investing more in phishing kits to simplify and expand their phishing activities. Cybercriminals are developing new phishing strategies and...

The government has launched a new independent body to oversee standards in the UK’s booming cybersecurity sector. Britain’s £8.3bn cyber sector has enjoyed continued growth during the pandemic, as a shift to homeworking has encouraged businesses and individuals to...