David Hollingworth

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David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.

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LastPass data breach keeps getting worse and worse

The phrase “from bad to worse” could well have been invented to describe LastPass’ ongoing security issues. The popular password manager, whose whole mission statement is ...

SECURITY • Wed, 11 Jan 2023

DHS and CISA get into the machine-learning cyber security sandbox game with CAP-M

The year 2022 is feeling like it was the year when organisations around the globe began to take cyber security investment to new heights. The latest organisations to ...

SECURITY • Tue, 10 Jan 2023

The US Federal Communications Commission is planning to overhaul data breach reporting

After a brief period of consultation late last year, the FCC has voted unanimously to launch proceedings to change the way customer data breaches are reported in the ...

GOVERNMENT • Tue, 10 Jan 2023

US Supreme Court says ‘No’ to Israeli spyware maker’s immunity claim

Israeli spyware company NSO Group has just been dealt a blow by the US Supreme Court in an ongoing legal dispute between the company and Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service

COMPANIES • Tue, 10 Jan 2023

Air France-KLM alerts customers of possible data breach

Franco-Dutch airline company Air France-KLM has begun contacting its customers, warning them of a possible breach of customer data.

SECURITY • Tue, 10 Jan 2023

The US Army’s Project Linchpin AI program is focusing on security first

The US Army’s recently announced Project Linchpin is looking to kill two birds with one stone. On one hand, the Army is currently amassing a mind-boggling amount of data ...

SECURITY • Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Fire Rescue Victoria notifies the Australian Information Commissioner of possible data breach

After reporting a cyber attack that disrupted many of its communications systems, Fire Rescue Victoria has now said it is referring the incident to the Office of the ...

GOVERNMENT • Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Slack’s GitHub repository suffered a security breach over New Year’s

Popular corporate message service Slack has revealed that an outside entity has gained access to its code repository on GitHub.

COMPANIES • Mon, 09 Jan 2023

WhatsApp announces new proxy service to sidestep Iranian censorship

Meta’s secure messaging service, WhatsApp, has announced a new proxy service to get around recent censorship from countries such as Iran.