South Korean web-hosting firm Nayana has agreed to pay a $1m ransom to unlock computers frozen by hackers. It is believed to be a record amount, although it is worth…
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Security firm asks EU to investigate Microsoft
Russian security software-maker Kaspersky has filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission. It claims that the software giant is abusing its market dominance by pushing Windows 10…
UK Healthcare Accounts for 43% of all Breaches
By Dan Raywood The British healthcare system experienced 2447 incidents and accounted for 43% of all reported incidents between January 2014 and December 2016. According to data received from the Information…
More evidence for WannaCry 'link' to North Korean hackers
A hacking group closely tied to North Korea was behind the massive WannaCry attack earlier this month, security company Symantec says. The way the attack was set up made it…
Chrome on Windows has credential theft bug
.SCF files present ID, password to fetch icons for attack file By Richard Chirgwin Google’s Chrome team is working to fix a credential theft bug that strikes if the browser…
WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack 'may have N Korea link'
Dave Lee, North America technology reporter Who was behind the huge global cyber-attack? One prominent theory right now is North Korea – but what we know is far from conclusive.…