Cyber criminals are exploiting Home Office branding in a newly identified phishing campaign that targets holders of UK immigrant sponsor licence holders participating in the government’s Sponsorship Management System (SMS). The SMS is designed for employers sponsoring visas in the Worker and Temporary Worker categories, and institutions sponsoring visas in the Student and Child categories.…

Carrastock/Getty Images Your iPhone’s status bar is a helpful dashboard that provides a glance at the vital signs of your smartphone. You’re probably used to seeing the Wi-Fi and cellular data icons in this indicator field, along with your iPhone’s battery status. But there may come a day when you see something a bit less familiar.…

D3sign/Getty Images Even online, it’s nice to find some privacy, although accomplishing this seems to be getting more difficult with each passing day. However, Instagram’s Vanish Mode can be useful for keeping secrets. It brings a Snapchat element to the platform, as messages you send in this mode will automatically disappear. From planning a friend’s…

The ShinyHunters hacking collective responsible for a wave of cyber attacks orchestrated via Salesforce products is likely collaborating with the Scattered Spider gang that brought down systems at Marks & Spencer earlier this year, according to research. In a report published 12 August, ReliaQuest researchers Kimberley Bromley and Ivan Righi argue that there is now…

No fewer than eight critical flaws that could allow a threat actor to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on a targeted system are listed in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday update, which once again tops out at over 100 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). Alongside the critical RCE bugs – which occur in a variety of…

DenPhotos/Shutterstock It’s great coming home after a hot day outside to discover your house is at the absolute perfect temperature. Or, even better, spending all day in the cold and arriving home to a snug 78-degree abode can be a wonderful feeling. While accomplishing this without wreaking havoc on your energy bill can be tricky,…

Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across continents. His idea was so specific that when geostationary satellites became a reality decades later, that orbital zone became known as the Clarke Belt in…

Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock In areas where traditional broadband is unreliable or nonexistent, satellite internet like Starlink becomes a lifeline for reliable internet. The service has grown rapidly – Starlink started with half a million users and now has over 6 million subscribers worldwide, meaning more people then ever before have access to reliable satellite internet. While one…

Cyber attacks are no longer confined to the realm of IT – they are a systemic risk to economies, governments, and public trust. Nowhere is this more evident than in the UK’s newly formalised approach to cyber security. With the government now advancing a ban on ransom payments by public sector entities and introducing mandatory…

Over a million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency assets laundered by or on behalf of the notorious BlackSuit ransomware gang – previously known as Royal – were seized ahead of a multinational takedown operation in July, led by the US authorities with support from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and cyber cops from Canada, France,…