By Jane Wakefield, Technology reporter Shops and retailers are taking over where street cameras left off, watching shoppers’ every move. According to a 2015 survey of 150 retail executives from…
Month: March 2017
Kenya Revenue Authority 'lost $39m to hacker'
An IT expert has been charged with hacking into Kenya’s Revenue Authority and stealing $39m (£31m). Alex Mutungi Mutuku, 28, is accused of electronic fraud but he denies any wrongdoing.…
Royal Navy to hold biggest cyber war games
By Steven McKenzie, BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter The Royal Navy is to hold its first large scale cyber war games. Information Warrior 17 will involve Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
How fake data could lead to failed crops and other woes
By Mark Ward, Technology correspondent There’s a new cyber threat on the horizon. And it’s fiendishly subtle and potentially very dangerous. Fake data – altering databases and documents without anyone…
Poor Passwords, Cloud and Network Complexity Plague Orgs
By Tara Seals An array of organizations still vulnerable to brute force attacks as attackers target default or easily-guessed usernames and passwords to breach enterprise defenses. That’s according to Ixia’s…
Spear-phishing scammer demanded sex show
By Zoe Kleinman, Technology reporter, BBC News Six weeks ago, a young woman called Zed (not her real name) was in a meeting at work when a message popped up…