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Microsoft, Apple versus China, spyware actors

It’s a cat-and-mouse struggle as tech giants Microsoft and Apple deal with persistent threats from China state actors and Pegasus spyware.

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Regulator to Investigate Fertility App Security Concerns

ICO reveals over half of women are worried about their data

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  • September 7, 2023

Emerging cyber threats in 2023 from AI to quantum to data poisoning

Companies using Microsoft Teams got news earlier in the summer of 2023 that a Russian hacker group was using the platform to launch phishing attacks, putting a new spin on a long-known attack strategy. According to Microsoft Threat Intelligence, the hackers, identified as Midnight Blizzard, used Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses compromised in […]

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Experts Uncover Underground Phishing “Empire” W3LL

Secretive group targets specifically Microsoft 365 accounts

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UK National Cyber Security Centre Gets a New CTO

Industry veteran Ollie Whitehouse is confirmed

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Four Convicted in $18m Investment Fraud Scheme

The Brittingham Group promised outsized returns to victims

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  • September 4, 2023

Why Instagram Threads is a hotbed of risks for businesses

Instagram’s Threads platform launched to great fanfare in July with a massive surge of users signing up for the new text-sharing and public conversation service, including businesses using the service as an extension of existing social media and communications programs. Many have seen it as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X — formerly Twitter — […]

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Freecycle users told to change passwords after data breach

Freecycle, an online community that encourages sharing unwanted items with eachother than chucking them in the bin or taking them to landfill, has told users to change their passwords after it suffered a data breach.

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