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Google's email service - Gmail - is “more secure” than parliament's email system, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has claimed. Tom Tugendhat told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he has repeatedly been…

Cyber-security firm Darktrace has said it intends to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange. Darktrace did not indicate how much it is seeking to raise, but media reports suggest it could be as much as £3bn. The…

Google used a secret program called "Bernanke" that used historical bidding data to give its ad-buying system a major advantage over its rivals, an antitrust lawsuit filing claims, a program that earned the company hundreds of millions of…

Investigators in Rome have placed under house arrest a man who they say paid an attacker over the dark web to maim his ex-girlfriend. The suspect is accused of offering €10,000 (£8,700; $12,000) in Bitcoin in return…

A decade-long battle over copied code in Google's Android operating system has ended in the US Supreme Court. Oracle, another tech titan, had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over what it said was copied…

A new regulator aiming to curb the dominance of tech giants has started work in the UK. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU) will first look to create new codes of conduct for companies such as Facebook and Google and their…

Cyberattackers have set up a website for a fake company called SecuriElite, as well as associated Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. The same North Korean threat actors that targeted security researchers in January appear to be readying…

A vast majority of companies in a global survey from Microsoft report being a victim of a firmware-focused cyberattack, but defense spending lags, but defense spending lags. Attacks against firmware are snowballing, outstripping many…

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted in a historic poll to decide whether they want to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The results are not expected until next week - but if…

CEO says Apple rejected a security update needed to protect human-rights abuse evidence. In a blog post filled with a passionate defense of human rights and internet privacy, Andy Yen, the CEO of secure internet provider ProtonVPN,…

The ransomware attack has impacted the IoT manufacturer’s production lines across multiple sites, and other internal operations. A ransomware attack on leading internet-of-things (IoT) manufacturer Sierra Wireless this week ground…

A new infection vector from the established malware puts internet-facing Windows systems at risk from SMB password brute-forcing. A malware that has historically targeted exposed Windows machines through phishing and exploit kits has…

Tech bosses Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey are being grilled by US politicians over the proliferation of disinformation on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. This latest hearing is the first since the…

Attackers can leverage the critical Adobe ColdFusion flaw to launch arbitrary code execution attacks. In an unscheduled security update, Adobe is warning of a critical security flaw in its ColdFusion platform, used for building web…

Remote ed software bugs give attackers wide access student computers, data. Netop, the company behind a popular software tool designed to let teachers remotely access student computers, has fixed four security bugs in its…

People waiting for parcels to arrive have been given a fresh warning about a scam that claims payment is required for a package to be delivered. Social media is awash with talk about the con, which involves a text…

Public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for ProxyLogon could be fanning a feeding frenzy of attacks even as patching makes progress. As dangerous attacks accelerate against Microsoft Exchange Servers in the wake of the disclosure…

A new Mimecast update reveals the SolarWinds hackers accessed several “limited” source code repositories. Hackers who compromised Mimecast networks as part of the SolarWinds espionage campaign have swiped some of the security firm’s…

The newly discovered steganography method could be exploited by threat actors to obscure nefarious activity inside photos hosted on the social-media platform. A security researcher has discovered a novel steganography technique for…

A glitch in Zoom’s screen-sharing feature shows parts of presenters’ screens that they did not intend to share – potentially leaking emails or passwords. A security blip in the current version of Zoom could inadvertently leak users’…

The Cisco security vulnerability exists in the RV132W ADSL2+ Wireless-N VPN Routers and RV134W VDSL2 Wireless-AC VPN Routers. A popular line of small business routers made by Cisco Systems are vulnerable to a high-severity…

Google plans to reduce the fees it charges to feature Android apps within its Play store. From 1 July, it will take a 15% cut from the first $1m (£720,000) in sales each year of the apps and any digital goods and services sold…

An ad for a cryptocurrency exchange has been banned for “irresponsibly” promoting investments in Bitcoin. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the campaign had targeted pensioners who were "unlikely to know" much…

Prolific burglars, robbers and thieves are to be tagged with GPS trackers in a bid to stop them reoffending. Offenders will be automatically tagged for up to 12 months after being released from prison, under a Ministry of…

The threat group behind the Sodinokibi ransomware claimed to have recently compromised nine organizations. The REvil ransomware threat group is on a cyberattack tear, claiming over the past two weeks to have infected nine…

What do you think is the best video game movie of all time? Millions of people have been watching the trailer for a new film based on the Mortal Kombat video game series. The gruesome teaser has got gamers across the…

Hundreds of UK companies have been compromised as part of a global campaign linked to Chinese hackers. Cyber-security firm ESET said more than 500 email servers in the UK may have been hacked, and many companies are not aware…

Amazon opens a till-less grocery store in London later on Thursday - its first "just walk out" shop outside the US. Visitors to Amazon Fresh scan a smartphone app when entering and are automatically billed as they…

image copyrightGetty Images North Korea attempted to steal Covid-19 vaccine technology from US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, according to South Korean intelligence officials. It is currently…

image copyrightGetty Images Reddit removed 6% of all content posted in 2020, according to the site's annual transparency report. Of the 3.4 billion posts made by its users in 2020, 233 million…