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Police in Greece are to be issued new devices that will allow them to carry out real-time facial recognition and fingerprint identification while out on the beat. The plan to disseminate the new technology is part of the 4.5 million euro "Smart Policing" project announced in 2017 that aims to...

A quarter of zero-day exploits discovered last year could have been avoided if vendors had taken a more methodical and comprehensive approach to patching, according to Google. Project Zero security researcher, Maddie Stone, argued in a blog post yesterday that 25% of zero-days spotted in 2020...

A leading US transportation business has become the latest corporate victim to lose millions in a ransomware attack, according to a regulatory filing. Tennessee-headquartered Forward Air describes itself as the leading provider of ground transportation and logistics for North American air...

Remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks increase by 768% between Q1 and Q4 last year, fuelled by the shift to remote working, according to ESET’s Q4 2020 Threat Report. However, a slower rate of growth was observed in the final quarter of the year, indicating that organizations have enhanced...

The founder of New Zealand cybersecurity company Emsisoft has issued an apology over a configuration error that led to a system data breach. News that one of the company's test systems had been compromised was shared on February 3 by Emsisoft founder and managing director Christian Mairoll. In...

A researcher claims to have hacked into the internal systems of major companies including Apple and Microsoft using a novel supply chain attack. Alex Biran created malicious node packages and uploaded them to the npm registry under unclaimed names. The node packages collected information...

Indexes first became popular with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which was created by Charles Dow in 1896. The DJIA was the second stock index, created after the Dow Jones Transportation Average. The DJIA became a crucial tool for tracking the strength of the broader economy. Since...

American legal giant Jones Day says its computer network has not been compromised following a cyber-attack on the firm's file-transfer vendor Accellion. Accellion's 20-year-old FTA (Files Transfer Appliance) file-transfer platform was "the target of a sophisticated cyberattack," according to a...

The Indian thought that he was a victim of online ransomware, but it turned out that his 11-year-old son, who mastered hacking, was extorting money from him. Rajiv Kumar from India received a threatening email from a stranger on January 1. Not understanding who he had managed to cross the road...