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A new law expanding the Investigatory Powers Act, the UK’s already-controversial surveillance and data access rules, became law last week.

These UK rules ban manufacturers from having weak, easily guessable default passwords such as ‘admin’ or ‘12345’, but one expert believes these new rules don’t go far enough.

Manufacturers will now have to follow tougher rules to sell smart devices in the UK after, what some consider, a long overdue law came into effect at the end of April.

Google Chrome users have been reporting having trouble connecting to websites, servers, and firewalls after Chrome 124 was released last week with quantum-resistant X25519Kyber768 encryption.

Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to break into hardware such as phones and tablets.

TECH giant BT is blocking a staggering 32 million fake emails from arriving in people’s accounts every day as the cyber fraud scourge spreads.

Chrome users waiting for Google to kill third-party cookies now have to wait even longer. In a Tuesday news update, the company revealed that its plan to start blocking third-party cookies by default won't kick off until early next year, at the earliest.

Attackers are indiscriminately targeting VPNs from Cisco and several other vendors in what may be a reconnaissance effort, the vendor says.

A decision by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to change how it maintains the widely used National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has focused attention on the brittle nature of current enterprise vulnerability management processes.