The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging Christmas shoppers to exercise caution online this holiday season. The GCHQ offshoot rolled out its updated Cyber Aware campaign today alongside the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). According to the NCSC, there were over 17,400 reports of online retail fraud last Christmas shopping period, which runs from the start of November until the end of January….

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, CIOs have faced epic challenges unlike any they’ve previously weathered. For many business leaders, recovery isn’t just a return to their former state but a top-to-bottom rethinking of what business they need to be in and how their business must be run. As the chief owners of the digital infrastructure that underpins all aspects of modern enterprises, CIOs must play pivotal roles in the road to recovery, seeking the…

A rights group is suing the US government over what it claims to be the latter’s secret purchasing of mobile phone location data to track individuals. The GPS data used by many apps is regularly sold to other companies for marketing and other purposes. However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week claimed that, according to reports earlier in the year, some of these companies are selling it on to government agencies. That raises…

Third-party plug-ins driving most retail sites can open doors to attackers by Mounir Hahad, Head of Juniper Threat Labs at Juniper Networks In the unprecedented year of 2020, the rise in cyberattacks has been an unfortunate side effect of the global pandemic. Magecart is more of a threat this year than ever before, both because a) more shoppers have moved online so the volumes are higher, and b) in the rush to introduce new online…