Security

Drones have harassed airports and bedeviled local police. They have trespassed over nuclear plants and prisons. On the battlefield, they can kill.... Read more

The sudden fall of a ransomware supplier once described as the world's most harmful cybercrime group has raised questions about Moscow's role in its development and the fate of its founder.... Read more

A previously unknown Russian hacker group with suspected ties to the Kremlin was responsible for a cyberattack last year on the Dutch police and has also targeted other Western nations that deliver military support to Ukraine, intelligence agencies announced Tuesday.... Read more

To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information has now been introduced in the journal Angewandte Chemie by a Chinese research team. It is based on compounds with carefully modulated luminescent properties that... Read more

Our mobile phone numbers have become a de facto form of identification, but they can be hijacked for nefarious purposes. Just such an attack may have been involved in the recent very damaging cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer (M&S).... Read more

The messages seemed innocuous, mundane even. Someone posing as a prospective guest emailed a hotel questions about a purported comment left on Booking.com. Another message was supposedly from that third-party booking site to review negative guest feedback.... Read more

British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday said a cyberattack disrupting its online service is set to last through to July and hit group profit by around £300 million ($404 million).... Read more

Several big British retailers have been in the news recently—but not for buoyant sales or new product launches. Firms like Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been hacked, affecting online sales and the range of products available in-store, and forcing them to apologize to customers and other stakeholders. Luxury retailer... Read more

A review by researchers at Tongji University and the University of Technology Sydney published in Frontiers of Computer Science, highlights the powerful role of graph neural networks (GNNs) in exposing financial fraud.... Read more

Britain's justice department said Monday that it shut down online services for legal aid recipients and the lawyers paid to help them after a cyberattack compromised personal information including criminal records, national insurance numbers and payment details.... Read more

New regulations threaten the security of the personal data of cryptocurrency users and may expose them to "physical danger," the platform at the center of last week's Paris kidnapping attempt has claimed.... Read more

Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted messaging app, coupled with the rise of authoritarian policies around the world, have led to a surge in interest in encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp. These apps prevent anyone, including the government and the app companies themselves,... Read more

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are experiencing spectacular growth thanks to the new opportunities they offer for interaction and monetization to fans, clubs and athletes in the sports industry.... Read more

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., said Thursday that criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange's customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million payment not to publicly release the info.... Read more

Location data is considered particularly sensitive—its misuse can have serious consequences. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method that allows individuals to cryptographically prove their location—without revealing it. The foundation of this method is the so-called zero-knowledge proof with standardized floating-point numbers.... Read more