Face-off: Activists protest AI surveillance
Ella Jakubowska doesn’t worry about living in a dystopia, but only because she believes we already live in one. What’s more, she says, unfettered AI-powered mass surveillance could make it...
Cybersecurity
North Korean group suspected of hacking Seoul’s nuclear agency
A suspected North Korean hacking group broke into the computer systems of South Korea's atomic...
Cities are imperceptibly becoming Smart Cities. But what does that actually mean?
A brand new metropolis built from the ground up with tech powered urban design. A white elephant nobody wants to...
Critical cyber targets: You can’t touch this (again), Biden tells Putin
US President Joe Biden has given Russian President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors that are “off-limits”...
CTO Talk: Q&A with PJ Kirner of cybersecurity firm Illumio
PJ Kirner is the CTO of Illumio, a cloud computing and data centre security company. Kirner co-founded Illumio in 2013...
ThroughTek vulnerability lets attackers access security camera video feeds
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a vulnerability in ThroughTek software used in connected devices, including baby monitoring cameras, could give attackers access to camera…
Pulse Secure cyberattack affected critical US targets – report
A cyberespionage campaign blamed on Chinese state-backed entities was more sweeping than previously known, with hackers exploiting a device meant to boost internet security in order to penetrate the computers…
Beyond the password: Beyond Identity CEO talks to Verdict
The SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline hacks had one thing in common – they both started with a single compromised password. For Thomas “TJ” Jermoluk, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Identity,…
EA hack: Stolen FIFA 21 source code advertised on forums
Cybercriminals have stolen 780GB of valuable data, including source code for FIFA 21, from game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) and posted it for sale on underground forums. The attackers also…
Ransomware gang carves $11m payment from JBS
Meat processing company JBS said it paid an $11m ransomware demand to cybercriminals to prevent further attack and as “insurance” to protect customers – despite there being no evidence that…
Huawei: Our largest ever cybersecurity hub nothing to do with US-China tensions, promise
Chinese tech behemoth Huawei revealed its new global cybersecurity and privacy protection transparency centre in Dongguan, but denied it had anything to do with heightened tensions between China and the…
