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Encrypted communications platform Sky ECC has denied Europol claims that police have managed to access messages sent by criminals using the service. On Wednesday, the law enforcement organization claimed that police had been able to monitor the encrypted chats of 70,000 Sky ECC users, many of them having migrated from the notorious EncroChat platform used by organized crime gangs. It said investigators in Belgium, France and the Netherlands now had access to hundreds of millions…

Beverage giant Molson Coors has released details of what appears to be a ransomware incident. The firm, known for big-name brands such as Coors, Miller Lite and Foster’s, revealed the attack in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday. It claimed the firm had experienced a “systems outage caused by a cybersecurity incident” which it was in the process of managing. “The company has engaged leading forensic information technology firms and legal…

App security testing firm Veracode has launched its inaugural Veracode Hacker Games, an event which aims to encourage the growth of secure coding skills. Taking place over two weeks from March 15-25 2021, computer science and cybersecurity teams from eight leading universities in the UK and US will be tested on their secure coding skills in a collegiate contest. A number of individual prizes will be on offer and Veracode will donate $10,000 and $5000 for…

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of enabling two-factor authentication on the new fork of CentOS, AlmaLinux. Image: iStock/natasaadzic In light of the CentOS kerfuffle (check out: Clearing up the CentOS Stream confusion), you might have opted to migrate your Linux servers to the new fork, AlmaLinux. If that’s the case, you’ve either found the process to be incredibly automatic or a bit of a challenge. Once you have AlmaLinux up and running, one…