Christopher Budd News Today

The hackers are demanding a ransom payment.

A UK watchdog is asking Microsoft to explain how it will safeguard user data. Meanwhile, security experts are concerned Recall will be abused to spy on users' activities.

In his weekly ‘The Bar Man column’ Jeff Hoyle discusses the folk revival of the 1970s.

The upside and downside of "Shadow IT," why its a growing problem and trending against company policy and what needs to be fixed in the workplace.

World Password Day provides an opportune moment to reinforce cyber defenses.

Grants are available to offset deployment costs, yet cybersecurity tools remain low in demand among the smaller companies that need them most.

Nineteen inexpensive one-time-use ransomware tools akin to "junk guns" proliferating on the dark web between June 2023 and February 2024 have reduced the barrier to entry for ransomware attacks for less sophisticated cybercriminals, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Are hackers fed up with the Ransomware-as-a-Service model?

Two zero-days.

The online securities trading system at VNDirect Securities Company (VNDirect) is likely to have suffered from a data encryption hack for extortion.