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Though the feds haven’t identified any specific known threats, criminals are prone to strike when key employees are traveling or spending time with family and friends. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Thanksgiving holiday is an occasion for most people in the United States to enjoy time at home with family and friends. But it’s also a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to attack, knowing that offices are closed and that security professionals are away from work. An…

Third-party app trackers have become a real problem on Android, and DuckDuckGo is doing something about it. Find out why Jack Wallen believes this is the browser you need to use. Image: GettyImages/gremlin In the never-ending battle for privacy on mobile phones, I seem to be forever searching for the right combination of apps and services to lift Android to a more secure place. Recently, I made the call for dumping Chrome as the default…

More than four-fifths (81%) of UK retailers are putting their customers at risk of email fraud by not implementing the recommended level of domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance (DMARC) protection. This is according to a new study by Proofpoint, which warned of a likely surge in fraudulent emails targeting online shoppers ahead of this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. DMARC is an email authentication, policy and reporting protocol designed to improve and monitor protection of the…

The UK’s cybersecurity sector appears to be faring pretty well in terms of its diversity, but challenges around inclusion, career progression and discrimination persist, according to a new government report. The second annual Decrypting Diversity report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was compiled from interviews with 945 professionals working in the industry. The headline figures are encouraging: over a third (36%) of respondents were female, which is a higher proportion than in some studies, and 10%…

UK government security experts have been forced to notify over 4000 domestic online businesses that their websites were infected with digital skimming code. GCHQ agency, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), informed 4151 compromised online shops up to the end of September. Most of these were exploited via a known bug in the popular Magento e-commerce software. The NCSC argued it was particularly important that digital retailers get their house in order ahead of the…

Most UK business leaders expect cyber-threats to surge next year, with ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), cloud and supply chain attacks all predicted to increase, according to PwC. The findings come from the consulting giant’s 2022 Global Digital Trust Insights Survey and were distilled from interviews with 257 business and technology executives in the UK. Although most (63%) respondents said they expect security budgets to increase next year, even more (66%) predicted cyber-threats would rise. Ransomware (61%), BEC…