Google warns that NSO hacking is on par with elite nation-state spies
Enlarge / A man walks by the building entrance of Israeli cyber company NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021, in Sapir,...
How the US tech giants opening UK datacentres shook up the public sector market
December 2021 marks five years since Amazon Web Services (AWS) set its UK datacentre region live, and in that time the US cloud giant has seemingly become the public...
COVID booster jabs demand propels NHS.uk website and apps to top of leaderboard
As millions look to get their booster jab ahead of Christmas and the expected Omicron surge, the NHS website and its associated app took the full brunt of thousands of...
Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server
An Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from Google Play has been caught hosting malware that surreptitiously sends users’ contacts to an attacker-controlled server and signs up users to...
Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network
A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been...
Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year
Enlarge / Comcast's xFi Advanced Gateway.Getty Images | Jeff Fusco Comcast says it won't deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year's reprieve to 12 states...
Today only: Telstra’s NBN plans are just AU$2
For today only (Thursday, December 16), Telstra has drastically cut the cost of its NBN plans down to just AU$2 for two months, making this typically expensive NBN provider the...
Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit
Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and...
Which? tells banks to stop rushing branch closures
Which? is calling for a pause in bank branch closures amid fears that people could be left without easy access to cash and services. Analysis from the consumer rights...
Ajit Pai and Tom Wheeler agree: The FAA is behaving badly in battle against FCC
Enlarge / Then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler (L) and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai talk before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. Six...