Earlier this year, a USB stick with wild claims went viral and now trading standards are investigating alongside the City of London Police’s Action Fraud Squad. The company behind selling the USB sticks(5GBioShield), claim that it protects the user from the alleged, unproven negative affects that conspiracy theorists …read more
In recent court filings, WhatsApp alleged that the NSO Group, an Israeli based spyware company, was ‘deeply involved’ in 1,400 mobile phone hacks that were carried out against WhatsApp users, including journalists, human rights activists, and senior government officials.
The NSO Group is a cyber-intelligence company whose tools are …read more
A story broke earlier this month alleging that the nephew of Sir Frederick Barclay, Alistair Barclay, was caught on CCTV ‘handling a bugging device’ at the Ritz hotel in London. The CCTV footage is now at the centre of a large legal battle between the families of the …read more
Last month a US cyber security firm, FireEye, said they had seen a disconcerting spike in activity from what looks like a Chinese hacking group. The group in question is known as APT41, a prolific hacking group from China, who as well as deploying financially motivated attacks, also …read more
Recently, a warning was released to businesses from the FBI regarding a new ploy being used by the FIN7 gang (also known as the Navigator Group and the Carbanak Group). More than $1 billion in fraud has already been tied to the gang, most of which was taken …read more
The Washington Post released a report earlier in the year involving
the CIA, the BND and a Swiss crypto company – it was described as the Intelligence
Coup of the Century.
The report reveals that US and German intelligence owned a
Swiss company that once sold secure encryption products that were …read more
Due to social distancing measures put in place by
governments around the world to help combat the current global pandemic, the
use of video calling platforms has risen dramatically. US company, Zoom, is one
of these platforms that has seen a huge spike in its user base.
Zoom has been widely adopted …read more
Earlier this year, Barclays found themselves under fire
regarding a staff monitoring scheme that they had been trialling.
The scheme involved tracking software on employees’ machines
to log the length of time they spent at their desks, resulting in warnings
being sent if they took extended breaks. Barclays had been running this …read more
In reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak, many companies are taking
government advice and asking employees to work from home where possible to help
slow the spread of the virus. This is an excellent plan, but it does mean that
the home office security then comes into focus for the would-be eavesdropper …read more
The UK health and beauty retailer, Boots, has suspended all
payments using their loyalty card points both online and in store after
unauthorised attempts had been made to enter customers’ accounts using stolen
passwords.
Boots have said that customers won’t be able to use the
points on their Boots Advantage Card while they …read more
