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Firefox developers understand web browser security is at a premium, so they’ve started rolling out a new site isolation feature. Jack Wallen shows you how to enable Fission. Image: Mozilla The Mozilla developers are doing everything they can to prevent Firefox from fading into the sunset, a browser forgotten and unused. That’s a good thing because Firefox is an important browser that has brought about game-changing features over the years. One thing (at least I…

In the wake of the Schrems II decision[1], and even more in the light of Friday’s Facebook ruling[2], the question on everyone’s mind is how to truly protect personal data from the prying eyes of national security agencies around the world. Despite detailed guidelines[3] issued in November 2020, in the absence of new definitive guidelines for transferring data across European borders[4], many are starting to wonder whether data localisation is the magic bullet to protect…

The attacks used fake order receipts and phone numbers in an attempt to steal credit card details from unsuspecting victims, says Armorblox. Image: Tero Vesalainen, Getty Images/iStockphoto A standard phishing campaign uses email to try to trick people into divulging confidential information. But attackers are increasingly employing a variant of that ploy known as vishing, short for voice phishing. In a vishing attack, the scammer still impersonates someone from a trusted company but uses a…

You’ll have no shortage of content to choose from at DockerCon 2021. The one-day virtual event on May 27 will offer a smorgasbord of demonstrations, product announcements, company updates and more — all of it focused on modern application delivery in a cloud-native world. But if you need some help narrowing down what’s in the must-see category, allow us to recommend the following key sessions. They include hands-on coding using Docker’s new HTTP APIs, a…

With all the headlines about ransomware attacks hitting companies hard, you might think there’s only bad news around the subject. Well, think again. Not only has the Darkside ransomware gang seemingly shut down since the high-profile attack which resulted in the Colonial Pipeline being shut down, and numerous dark web forums announce that they will no longer promote ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS) schemes, but it also appears that another notorious ransomware outfit has decided to close its…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has spent over a quarter of a million pounds (£262,251) on cybersecurity training for its staff during the past two financial years, according to official figures obtained by the Parliament Street think tank following a Freedom of Information request. The UK’s tax authority spent £111,795 in the most recent financial year (20–21), which was a reduction on the £150,456 invested in 19–20. This funding covered 80 training enrollments in FY…

Just as business users have turned to cloud computing services and online collaboration software to do their jobs, so too have cybercriminals according to new research from Proofpoint. In recent months, the cybersecurity firm has observed a massive uptick in threat actors abusing Microsoft and Google’s infrastructure to host and send threats across Office 365, Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, G-Suite and Firebase storage. In 2020, over 59m malicious messages were sent from Microsoft Office 365 targeting…

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