By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent 59 minutes ago Image caption, Rupert Murdoch and the then News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks pictured in July 2011 Rupert Murdoch must have known of phone hacking and other unlawful activity at his newspaper group before publicly denying it, the High Court has heard. Lawyers for Prince...Read More

Geo Focus: The United Kingdom,Geo-Specific Survey Finds Too Many Under-Engaged Boards, Reactive Attitudes, Low Appetite for AIMathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) •March 20, 2024     The pace of cybersecurity improvements in the United Kingdom has stalled. (Image: Shutterstock) The pace of cybersecurity improvements has stagnated for numerous organizations in Britain over the past year, driven...Read More

US government is urging state officials to band together to improve the cybersecurity of the country’s water sector amid growing threats from foreign adversaries. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is seeking to establish a Water Sector Cybersecurity Task Force to beef up current work to implement “immediate” solutions to prevent one of the...Read More

An Iran-linked hacking group claims to have breached the computer network of a sensitive Israeli nuclear installation in an incident declared by the ‘Anonymous’ hackers as a protest against the war in Gaza. The hackers claim to have stolen and published thousands of documents — including PDFs, emails, and PowerPoint slides — from the Shimon...Read More

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The UnitedHealth Group — one of the nation’s largest health care providers — said it is making progress in its recovery from one of the worst cyberattacks on a health care system in United States history, its CEO said earlier this week. On Feb. 21, UnitedHealth Group announced a hacking...Read More

Scams can pop up at any time including on emails or via phone calls and if scammers are successful, they can leave us out of pocket. To help you out, Amy Knight, personal finance writer and spokesperson for NerdWallet UK, has shared how you can avoid being scammed and what to do if you are....Read More

Police in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine have announced the arrests of three cyber criminals who hacked into and appropriated the personal email and social media accounts, specifically Instagram accounts, of over 100 million internet users. Ukrainian law enforcement searched seven properties of those involved in Kyiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, and the Kyiv, Donetsk and Kirovohad...Read More

Government cybersecurity authorities in the US and allied nations are sounding the alarm bell again over the Chinese hacking group known as Volt Typhoon. In a joint advisory issued on Tuesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and eight international partners warned that the Beijing-backed Volt Typhoon gang...Read More

The Louisiana Legislature and other lawmakers around the country will attempt to further marginalize the LGBTQ+ community through new laws, and you can expect more distortions of truth when their authors and proponents argue for their approval. Drag queens and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual will be blamed...Read More

Facepalm: It’s been the subject of fearmongering for years – decades, even: elite hackers from hostile foreign nations targeting public utilities on US soil in a bid to bring modern society to its knees (or at the very least, make daily life a bit more stressful). According to a recent letter from the White House,...Read More