Narinder Purba

The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom is investigating what could be the biggest data breach in its history. The incident was caused internally – former employee had been surreptitiously gathering data over a six-year period.

Less than a month after it “renewed a consumer alert” for phishing scams, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US has delivered another warning aimed this time at payroll and human resources professionals.

UC Berkeley has revealed that it was the victim of a major cyberattack, affecting up to 80,000 current and former members of staff and students.

Theft of identities along with personal information still accounts for the majority of data breaches, a new global survey by Gemalto has found.

Cybersecurity experts are joining forces with government officials to try and “end the war between privacy and security”, it has been revealed.

Cybercrime is costing the global economy up to $450 billion annually, a new report by Hamilton Place Strategies reveals.

Security researchers have identified a serious vulnerability in an open-source library of code that is known as GNU C Library (glibc).

VTech has relaunched its online service Learning Lodge, but appears to have shirked responsibility regarding future data breaches.

A hospital in the US is still unable to fully access it computer system, over a week after cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack.