Dave Lee, North America technology reporter Viacom exposed important credentials that could have allowed hackers to wreak havoc on major media organisations, a cyber security firm has said. California-based UpGuard…
Day: September 20, 2017
IBM: Crypto-Mining Attacks Increased Six-Fold in 2017
By Phil Muncaster Security researchers have warned of a sharp increase this year in cyber-attacks targeting enterprise computers with embedded crypto-currency mining tools. IBM Managed Security Services (MSS) senior threat…
Manchester police still relies on Windows XP
By Leo Kelion England’s second biggest police force has revealed that more than one in five of its computers were still running Windows XP as of July. Greater Manchester Police…
More data lost or stolen in first half of 2017 than the whole of last year
By John Leyden More data records have been lost or stolen during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion). Digital security company Gemalto’s Breach…