Educational establishments offering the best cybersecurity instruction in the United Kingdom have been recognized by Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).  Under the NCSC’s CyberFirst Schools initiative, fourteen schools and sixth-form colleges across the country have been issued with special awards for the quality of their teaching. In Wales, gold, silver, and bronze awards were received by six different institutions, while five establishments in Northern Ireland received awards. In England, one school in Gloucestershire and two…

The Internal Revenue Service has issued an urgent warning to tax professionals over a new scam in which cyber-criminals impersonate the IRS over email in an attempt to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs). Carrying the subject line “Verifying your EFIN before e-filing,” the scam email purports to be from “IRS Tax E-Filing.” In the body of the bogus email, targets are asked to send an EFIN acceptance letter dated within the last 12 months…

Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz AktienGesellschaft has recalled over a million vehicles following the discovery of an emergency call system fault.  A glitch uncovered in the eCall feature means alerts sent from the car to emergency services in the event of an accident may contain incorrect information regarding the vehicle’s location.  The software-related bug impacts 1,292,258 cars in the United States manufactured from 2016 through 2021. Among the vehicles affected are the A-, B-, C-, E-, GT-, S-,…

To keep your Linux servers and desktops as secure as possible, you should check for (and remove) legacy communication services. Jack Wallen shows you how. Image: Jack Wallen Linux is a very secure operating system, but it’s not perfect. No operating system is. In fact, any platform that’s connected to a network is, in many ways, vulnerable. Like all other operating systems, there are a number of steps you can take to help mitigate those…

By Andrey Meshkov, CEO and CTO at AdGuard Content blocking is not a priority for Apple and WebKit. Content blocking in Safari is possible despite all its issues and limitations. If we want to improve it, we need to contribute to WebKit ourselves. This article is about content blocking on Apple platforms, mainly iOS. Why is it important to talk about Apple? First of all, it’s Apple, and it enjoys a large enough market share…

The Post Office in the UK has announced it will expand the use of digital identity technology in partnership with software company Yoti. The government-owned retail postal service will roll out a range of products both online and in-branch, providing consumers with a range of choices as to how they verify themselves via modern technology. The collaboration is designed to make Post Office transactions more simple and secure going forward. Among the products to be…

Weak threat insight, SecOps competing priorities, and fear of making things worse are key reasons By Chris Goettl, Director of Security Product Management, Ivanti It isn’t glamorous. It won’t guarantee a company staff promotion or kudos, but patching is a critical risk prevention function in any environment. Unfortunately, it’s task organizations tend to push aside – until they’re hit with a multi-million-dollar breakdown. Ponemon recently found that 60% of security breach victims say they became…