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The Biden administration has announced the cancellation of a $10bn massive cloud-computing contract awarded to Microsoft. After Microsoft won a lengthy bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract in 2019, competing contractor Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

The United States has been given leave to appeal a British court's decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange to America. In Westminster Magistrate's court in January, district judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Australian citizen Assange should not be extradited to the...

Microsoft has now released a patch for all Windows versions affected by the PrintNightmare zero-day, but researchers have already found a way to bypass the fix in attacks. As predicted, Microsoft this week pushed an out-of-band patch for CVE-2021-34527, which now has a CVSS “high severity”...

The UK’s data protection regulator has launched an investigation into whether the former health secretary broke the law in using his private email account to conduct official departmental business. Concerns were raised by the Labour Party late last month after Matt Hancock resigned following...

Nearly two-thirds (36%) of IT leaders are not disclosing breaches for fear that they may lose their job, complicating efforts to enhance security, according to new research. Keeper Security polled 1000 UK IT decision-makers at businesses of between 100 and 5000 employees to compile its 2021...

Cybercrime costs organizations an incredible $1.79m every minute, according to RiskIQ’s 2021 Evil Internet Minute Report. The study, which analyzed the volume of malicious activity on the internet, laid bare the scale and damage of cyber-attacks in the past year, finding that 648 cyber-threats...

A new study has revealed that nearly all security professionals operating in a multi-cloud environment believe it's riskier than relying on a single cloud provider. The research, published today by global security and compliance solutions provider Tripwire, is based on a June 2021 survey of 314...

Cyber-scammers are exploiting public interest in the latest Marvel movie to spread malware infections. The eagerly anticipated premiere of Disney's Black Widow is scheduled to take place simultaneously offline in movie theaters and online via streaming services tomorrow. However...

Former US president Donald Trump has filed lawsuits accusing three California-based tech giants of illegally censoring him. On Wednesday, Trump filed proposed class-action lawsuits in the US District Court in Miami against Twitter, Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google (parent of YouTube) and their...

Cryptocurrency, most notably Bitcoin, has become increasingly popular and valuable in recent years and with it have come a number of associated security risks, according to a pair of security experts speaking at the 2021 RSA Conference on May 19. Kenneth Geers, external communications analyst...

The boss of a critical East Coast fuel line has admitted he authorized a multimillion-dollar payment to a ransomware group that compromised the organization earlier this month. Affiliates working with the DarkSide group were blamed by the FBI for the attack, which forced operational systems...

Threat actors are “winning the race” to find vulnerable assets to exploit, launching scans within minutes of CVE announcements, a leading security vendor has warned. The 2021 Cortex Xpanse Attack Surface Threat Report from Palo Alto Networks was compiled from scans of 50 million IP addresses...

Web application vulnerabilities enabled attackers to breach organizations on average twice each last year, with bot-based raids the biggest challenge, according to Barracuda Networks. The security vendor polled 750 application security decision makers to compile its latest report: The state of...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has spent over a quarter of a million pounds (£262,251) on cybersecurity training for its staff during the past two financial years, according to official figures obtained by the Parliament Street think tank following a Freedom of Information request. The UK’s tax...

A Nigerian governor's aide has been suspended after being arrested in the United States in connection with a multi-million-dollar unemployment benefits scam. Abidemi Rufai, aka Sandy Tang, was arrested on Friday at JFK Airport in New York. The 42-year-old resident of Lekki, Nigeria, has been...

Supermodel turned cook and TV personality Chrissy Teigen has lost contracts with three major American retailers over previous cyber-bullying. A decade ago, Teigen bullied non-binary teenage reality TV star Courtney Stodden over their marriage to the then 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchinson. In...

Ransomware attacks fell by 50% in Q1 2021 as threat actors shifted from using mass spread campaigns to focusing on fewer, larger targets with unique samples, according to the McAfee Threats Report: June 2021. The researchers noted that the traditional approach of using one form of ransomware to...

Google Chrome users will have to wait until at least 2023 before third party cookies are blocked as part of the browser's Privacy Sandbox initiative. Google had first disclosed its plans to block third party cookies, which advertisers and marketers use to track users, in August 2019. In January...

A linguist employed by the US Department of Defense has been sent to prison for more than two decades for leaking the identities of American spies to a lover with ties to a foreign terrorist organization. Mariam Taha Thompson was charged in March 2020 with sharing highly sensitive classified...

Personal information belonging to job seekers residing in the Mountain State may have been exposed during a security incident at WorkForce West Virginia. The breach was confirmed yesterday by West Virginia governor Jim Justice, who addressed the incident during a press conference held earlier...