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File hosting service Dropbox has announced that it will be making its password manager feature, Dropbox Passwords, available to all users free-of-charge. From April, anyone with a basic, free Dropbox plan will be able to try a limited version of Dropbox Passwords, the company explained...

Security and communications integrator for businesses, industries and governments Optilan has announced the appointment of Adrian Bannister as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Bannister brings over 25 years of financial experience to the firm, which specializes in solutions for energy...

IT industry association CompTIA has launched a new training catalogue designed to facilitate the development of outstanding IT apprenticeships. The CompTIA Apprenticeship Training Solutions Catalogue will make it easier for training providers and their staff to understand how CompTIA learning...

The average ransomware payment soared by 171% year-on-year in 2020 as cybercrime gangs queued up to exploit the pandemic, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks. The security vendor’s Unit 42 division compiled its Ransomware Threat Report 2021 from analysis of over 19,000 network...

The FBI has issued an alert to education sector organizations in the US and UK of an uptick in multi-stage double extortion attacks using the Pysa ransomware variant. Also known as Mespinoza, Pysa has been detected targeting higher education institutions, K-12 schools and seminaries in 12 US...

Recorded Future has announced a $52m deal to enhance its threat intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Gemini Advisory. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security” said the combination of both companies’ capabilities would give customers a...

Police in Wales have issued a warning to residents about a new phone scam, in which fraudsters are impersonating supermarket giant Tesco. Victims have reported receiving an automated call telling them that an order with Tesco has been placed and that £350 will be debited from their account. The...

Suspected internet crime complaints increased by 69% in 2020 compared to 2019 in the US, according to figures released in the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. Total complaints reached 791,790 last year, representing a rise of more than 300,000 compared to 2019. This resulted in total recorded...

Global technology company Acronis has completed its fourth acquisition in the past 18 months by acquiring its long-time partner in South Africa. The acquisition of Synapsys was announced as part of an accelerated growth plan being carried out by Acronis. Synapsys is a channel-centric group of...

A 50-year-old mom from Pennsylvania has been arrested after allegedly using deepfake technology to tarnish the reputations her daughter's cheerleading rivals. Raffaela Marie Spone, of Chalfont, Bucks County, is accused of using technological trickery to make videos that appear to show members...

Police in India have arrested 34 people for allegedly impersonating Apple and McAfee employees to con foreign nationals out of their money. The defendants were detained during a March 20 raid on two fake call centers located in the same building in Uttam Nagar, a mostly residential area in...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA have announced the availability of the first credential for auditing the security of cloud security systems. The introduction of the Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) comes amid a huge surge in the adoption of the cloud in the past year...

Canadian cybersecurity firm Herjavec Group has been appointed as the Official Cybersecurity Services Provider to Formula 1. The group's newest gig was announced yesterday. Herjavec will support the world's most prestigious motor racing competition and annual sporting series in three critical...

Leveraging AI to undertake investigations of suspicious activities could significantly increase security teams’ abilities to protect their organizations from cyber-attacks, according to Andrew Tsonchev, director of technology, Darktrace, speaking during the Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit...

A Pennsylvania medical center and its legal services provider are facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of more than 36,000 patients. The breach occurred last year when hackers gained access to several email accounts belonging to...

An IT contractor who carried out a retaliatory cyber-attack after being fired for underperforming has been sent to prison. Indian national Deepanshu Kher was hired by an American IT consulting firm in 2017. The firm sent Kher to the headquarters of a company in Carlsbad, California, to assist...

The approach organizations should take to develop and maintain an effective DevSecOps culture were highlighted by Patrick Debois, director of market strategy at Snyk during a session at the Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit EMEA 2021. Debois firstly emphasized the importance of an...

A leading IoT manufacturer has been forced to halt production of devices after suffering a major ransomware attack. In a statement issued yesterday, Sierra Wireless claimed the attack struck over the weekend, on March 20. “The company’s website and other internal operations have also been...

Over 20TB of sensitive customer data has been accidentally leaked online by a popular online trading broker, after it misconfigured a cloud database. Researchers at reviews site WizCase spotted the Elasticsearch server left wide open without any encryption or password protection. They quickly...

The founder of a privacy centric email and VPN service has hit out at Apple for putting profits before human rights. Andy Yen is the CEO of Proton Technologies, which produces the ProtonMail and ProtonVPN offerings. He argues that the services were created in part to enable activists...