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A phishing campaign seen by email security provider Inky tries to trick its victims by inviting them to submit bids for alleged government projects.

Many phishing attacks attempt to scam people by impersonating and imitating real brands and organizations. A phishing email that appears to come from an official government entity is especially deceptive as it carries an air of authority. A malicious campaign detected by Inky in the latter half of 2021 spoofed the U.S. Department of Labor...

Here's who's most at risk

Up to 34% of jobs risk being lost to automation by 2040. But technology will also create new workforce opportunities.

Automation will replace some jobs, but also create new ones.

Up to a third of job roles in Europe could be made redundant by automation over the next 20 years as companies battle to increase productivity and fill skills gaps created by an ageing population, according to Forrester. The tech analyst's latest Future of Jobs Forecast estimates...

Cyber criminals are mailing out USB drives that install malware

Don't insert USB drives from unknown sources, even if they're addressed to you in the post.

The USB drives contain so-called 'BadUSB' attacks. They were sent in the mail through the United States Postal Service and United Parcel Service. One type contained a message impersonating the US Department of Health and Human Services and claimed to be a COVID-19 warning. Other malicious USBs were sent in the post with a gift card...

Don't think of it as a chip shortage, think of it as a chip demand boom! Not helping? Just want that gear you need to come down in price. Or ship at all?

Here are five things to know about the chip shortage.

- It's been coming even before the pandemic. The proliferation of chips in everything, especially in Internet of Things devices, led investment firm TS Lombard to move "semiconductors ahead of oil as the world's key commodity input for growth." - So, why not build more factories...

hidden on a hacked cloud server. Is yours one of them?

Compromised credentials have been 'donated' to HaveIBeenPwned website to make breaches harder.

The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) have discovered a 225 million cache of stolen emails and passwords and handed them to HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP), the free service for tracking credentials stolen and/or leaked through past data breaches.

The 225 million new passwords become a part of HIPB's existing...

: Attackers are making thousands of attempts to exploit this severe vulnerability

Cybersecurity researchers warn over attackers scanning for vulnerable systems to install malware, steal user credentials, and more.

Cyber attackers are making over a hundred attempts to exploit a critical security vulnerability in Java logging library Apache Log4j every minute, security researchers have warned.

The Log4j flaw (also now known as "Log4Shell") is a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)...

AWS outage: Our bad, admits Amazon, albeit vaguely

It turns out the widespread December 7 AWS outage was caused by Amazon's own software, and its response was hampered by … its own software. What does Amazon's post-mortem actually tell us?

The December 7 AWS outage that hobbled Amazon's own operations and took a wide range of its clients offline now has an official, if vague, explanation: It was our fault.

More specifically, it was AWS' own internal software that caused the snafu...

For some, the impact could be devastating

Excessive surveillance is having profoundly negative effects on the workforce.

Employee monitoring is on the rise. Should we be worried?

Remote-monitoring and surveillance tools could devastate employee relations unless efforts are made to put more power into the hands of workers, the author of a report by the European Commission's Joint Research Council (JRC) warns.

Kirstie Ball, who spent five months compiling the JRC's extensive...

Here's how businesses can prepare

Shortages are more regular than we may realize, and it's time for the businesses making and using semiconductors to implement these five fixes, says Deloitte.

Deloitte has published a set of five recommendations for the semiconductor industry designed to help it better weather a future chip shortage that it has described as not a possibility, but an eventuality.

By the time our current semiconductor shortage ends, Deloitte said, it will have...

The single most expensive offering seen by Intsights researchers was being offered for about $95,000.

A new report from cybersecurity company Intsights has spotlighted the thriving market on the dark web for network access that nets cybercriminals thousands of dollars.

Paul Prudhomme, cyber threat intelligence advisor at IntSights, examined network access sales on underground Russian and English-language forums before compiling a study on why criminals sell their network access and...