A report by the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI) has found that only 46 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide have implemented multifactor authentication (MFA) technology, and only 13 per cent insist on using MFA for employee accounts or applications.

Microsoft has revealed a large-scale phishing scam that has targeted at least 10,000 organisations since September last year. The ongoing campaign, which can hack into user accounts even when they are protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA) measures, begins with a phishing email with an HTML attachment leading to the proxy server.

The Marriott Hotels hospitality chain has been has been fined £18.4 million by the UK's data privacy watchdog. According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the breach of data security may have affected up to 339 million guests, including seven million UK-based guest records.

Videotelephony company Zoom has added two-factor authentication (2FA) to its video-conferencing platform as it looks to help organisations tackle identity theft and security breaches.

Virgin Media has published an apology after a data breach resulted in the personal details of around 900,000 customers being left unsecured.

With Microsoft set to end security support for Windows 7 on Tuesday, UK national intelligence and security agency GCHQ has warned people not to conduct internet banking or use emails on devices still using the operating system.

A new analysis of government figures has revealed that UK firms from the finance and insurance sectors invested the most in cybersecurity in 2018-2019.

The UK Labour Party says it has been targeted with a second cyber-attack in the space of two days. Both attacks are said to have taken the form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, in which networks of compromised computers (known as “botnets”) flood a server with requests in an attempt to overwhelm and take it offline.

The European ISP Association (EuroISPA) has called for major social media companies like Facebook to delay or cease altogether the weakening of end-to-end encryption across its online messaging platforms.

In spite of the growing number of threats to data security across the UK, British CTOs, CIOs and CISOs have pledged their confidence and faith in their organisational security capabilities.