by staff | Aug 14, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
It’s been reported that US Security Awareness Training Company ‘KnowBe4’ unknowingly hired a North Korean hacker as a remote software engineer. The hacker used stolen identity and AI generated imagery to circumvent KnowBe4’s due diligence and was even able to make it...
by staff | Jul 17, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
Start up Oxford Ionics, founded 2019, recently reported that its new quantum chip breaks global quantum performance records, providing over twice the performance of previous world records, and without using error correction. What’s more, the company reports that the...
by staff | Jul 5, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
The arrival of generative AI and its use by scammers to create more sophisticated phishing emails is behind an increase in travel scams of up to 900 percent in the last 18 months, Marnie Wilking, chief information security officer at Booking.com, has warned. Speaking...
by staff | Jun 19, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
Consumer association Which? has warned that scammers are posing as airline customer service representatives on social media to steal sensitive data. Which? says that scammers are crawling social media, often using bots, to find customers contacting airlines, and then...
by staff | Jun 14, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
Google has announced that Google Maps Timeline data will be stored locally on users’ devices instead of in their Google account, in the cloud, from 1st December 2024. Timeline, formerly known as Location History, helps users track routes, trips, and places they...
by staff | May 30, 2024 | Security, Stop-Press
A political consultant who paid a local street magician $150 to make a deepfake anti Biden robocall, asking people not to vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, is now facing a $6 million fine. It’s been alleged that Steven Kramer, 54, of New Orleans,...
