When Apple announces the new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro range of smartphones during Tuesday’s Wonderlust event, Apple aficionados will likely have pre-ordering the latest iPhone uppermost in their thoughts. Trading in, or selling on, an existing iPhone will also be front and center for many people looking at reducing the cost of that new iPhone 15 series purchase. But, when trading up, it’s vital not to let excitement take precedence over circumspection, especially when price, privacy and...

A recently introduced bipartisan bill, the Space Infrastructure Act, could see space systems and services designated as critical national infrastructure by the U.S. government. Space is already one of 13 critical national infrastructure sectors in the U.K. It should come as no surprise that space technology is also something of an unseen force underpinning financial services cybersecurity, but is it being adequately funded? Billions Of Invisible Transactions Fill The Night Sky “When we look...

Hot on the heels of the recent emergency Google Chrome security update addressing a zero-day exploit, already seen in the wild, comes another critical Chrome browser security update. This one lists four vulnerabilities as being included, one of which is a critical issue in the browser ‘autofill payments’ function which automatically enters payment details in online forms. What is CVE-2023-3214? Although CVE-2023-3214 doesn’t have quite the same feeling of urgency as CVE-2023-3079, as there...

"It makes sense to me that Lazarus would try it’s hand at macOS," Ian Thornton-Trump, cyber threat intelligence expert and CompTIA global faculty member told SC Media UK, saying, "it’s a popular OS and is found in use by high value targets." The Lazarus Group, an APT actor commonly attributed to the North Korean government, has been active for a decade. Whereas we most commonly associate APT state players with cyber-espionage activity, the Lazarus Group is firmly in the cyber-crime camp. It...

This article is more than 5 years old. The December 2019 Android Security Bulletin has been published by Google and contains details of several vulnerabilities within the Android operating system. In total, three vulnerabilities have been given a critical rating. However, Google has highlighted one of these as being "the most severe," and for very good reason: a single maliciously crafted message could "cause a permanent denial of service." If you tend to hang fire when the "a software update...