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Trust in digital services around the world sees a massive drop as security worries continue

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Thales' Trust Index outlines a universal decline across the board when it comes to confidence.

Insider risk on the rise as survey finds 50% of employees have too much privileged access - and AI will make it far worse

By Wayne Williams published

Privilege creep and shadow AI push insider threat levels higher, with 50% of workers granted more access than needed.

Gen Z and Millennial social media accounts are ripe for the taking and this doesn’t surprise me

By Luke Hughes published

‘Nearly half’ of Gen Z and Millennial respondents in 20,000-strong Yubico survey claim to have been victims of breaches.

Top digital loan firm security slip-up puts data of 36 million users at risk

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Passports and salaries leaked in loan company slip-up.

The majority of QR codes are spam, new survey claims

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Cisco Talos research details how QR codes are increasingly being used by cybercriminals.

Burnout, budgets and breaches – how can CISOs keep up?

By Richard Cassidy published

Security teams are at breaking point with the ever-evolving threat complexity and team burnout widening the cybersecurity skills gap.

Over 400 million unwanted and malicious emails were received by businesses in 2024

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Report highlights rising cyber threats, and urges businesses to adopt advanced cybersecurity practices and foster a strong security culture.

Salt Typhoon hackers used this clever technique to attack US networks

By Sead Fadilpašić published

More information about Salt Typhoon's October 2024 attack has been revealed.

iStorage launches 26TB hardware encrypted desktop hard drive; just make sure you remember your PIN and have backups

By Wayne Williams published

iStorage's PIN-authenticated 26TB desktop drive is built for companies who fear data breaches.

Infosec Europe 2025: here's everything we saw

By Mike Moore, Ellen Jennings-Trace last updated

We attended Infosecurity Europe 2025 - here's what we saw.

Over a billion credentials stolen were stolen in malware attacks in 2024

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Poor digital hygiene makes millions of passwords vulnerable to compromise each year, report warns.

Cyberattacks surged in 2025, with third party attacks seeing a huge rise

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Verizon data breach report finds third-party attacks doubled in 2024, and were present in 30% of all attacks.

Marks & Spencer’s cyberattack isn’t an exception - it’s a warning

By Spencer Starkey published

Marks & Spencer did the right thing by self-reporting its recent cyber incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

Top VC firm is warning thousands their data may have been hacked - here's how to stay safe

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Insight Partners has started notifying roughly 12,000 people, months after concluding its investigation.

85% of UK employers admit to spying on their employees – and workers aren't happy

By Chiara Castro published

ExpressVPN survey unveils a striking divide between employers' and employees' attitudes to remote work monitoring. Here's all you need to know.

Get the dunce's cap - experts warn pathetically weak passwords in the education sector leave classrooms at risk

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Schools records are vulnerable from weak passwords, report warns.

One in five security breaches now thought to be caused by AI-written code

By Craig Hale published

Nearly a quarter of production code globally is now AI-generated, and yet 69% admit to finding vulnerabilities, report finds.

59 organizations reportedly victim to breaches caused by Cleo software bug

By Luke Hughes published

Unsurprisingly, spokespeople for Clop’s corporate victims are being coy about the extent of the intrusions into their servers, or refusing to admit any at all.

UK cybersecurity sector could be worth £13bn, research shows

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

The UK’s cyber sector has grown significantly in the last year.

Textbook and testing giant Pearson hit by cyberattack, customer data leaked

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Another case of exposed Git configuration files leading up to a larger compromise, this time against education giant Pearson.

Massive Orange Belgium data breach may have hit over 850,000 customers - here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Passwords and financial data were not taken, but customers should still be on their guard.

Cyber moves from back office to boardroom – and investors are paying attention

By Joe Austin published

As cyber threats intensify and regulators tighten scrutiny, boardrooms rethink strategies, and investors follow closely.

Five lessons learned from the M&S, Co-op, and Harrods security breaches

By Steve Cobb published

Retail breaches highlight lessons in people, vendors, operations, planning, and trust.

Staffing giant Manpower hit by major data breach - around 145,000 users affected, here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Attack against Manpower in late 2024 was most likely conducted by a known threat actor.

5 questions for SMBs to reveal hidden security threats

By Erik Eisen published

SMBs can protect themselves from cyberattacks by assessing and strengthening five key areas.

Businesses are facing increased identity-based attacks, and rouge applications are a top culprit

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Many firms lost $100,000 and more to these attacks.

Google says hackers stole some of its data following Salesforce breach

By Sead Fadilpašić published

ShinyHunters finds its way into Google systems, but the search engine giant says it's nothing to be worried about.

FTC orders Marriott and Starwood to boost cybersecurity following major incidents

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Marriott has been ordered to implement stricter security after three major data breaches.

Millions of sensitive data records exposed online due to settings fault with this top Microsoft tool

By Sead Fadilpašić published

A misconfiguration on permissions leaked sensitive data on millions of people.

The growing threat of data breaches in the age of AI and data privacy

By Fabien Rech published

With the fast-growing adoption of AI by cybercriminals, organizations need to stay ahead of the curve to prevent falling victim to these attacks and losing vital data.