Companies are offering businesses free cybersecurity support as coronavirus scams proliferate and over-stretched healthcare providers become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Irish cybersecurity awareness training company Cyber Risk Aware announced yesterday that it…
'Incompetence attack': MyGov website did not crash because of DDoS cyber attack.
The government services minister, Stuart Robert, has had to walk back a claim that the MyGov website suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Monday just as people…
WordPress plugin vulnerability enables hackers inject malicious code
A WordPress plugin that enables websites to create and deploy popups has been discovered to contain flaws that allow hackers to inject malicious JavaScript code into such popups. The bugs,…
New Android Cookie-Stealing Malware Found Hijacking Facebook Accounts
A new simple but dangerous strain of Android malware has been found in the wild that steals users’ authentication cookies from the web browsing and other apps, including Chrome and…
Half of UK Firms Suffer Basic Cyber-Skills Gaps
The number of UK companies with a basic cybersecurity skills gap has dropped from 2018 but still stands at around half of all businesses, according to a new government study.…
Microsoft takes down global zombie bot network
Microsoft has said it was part of a team that dismantled an international network of zombie bots. The network call Necurs infected over nine million computers and one of the…