Cybersecurity breaches encompass malicious intrusions into digital systems that compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of data and services across sectors such as healthcare, transportation, finance, retail, and government. Work in this area examines ransomware incidents, large-scale data theft, exploitation of software and hardware vulnerabilities, and emerging threats such as AI-enabled attacks and cybercrime-as-a-service. It also addresses systemic weaknesses in IT infrastructures, illicit data markets, and policy, legal, and organizational responses aimed at mitigating breach risks and impacts.
Business
Several big British retailers have been in the news recently—but not for buoyant sales or new product launches. Firms like Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been hacked, affecting online sales and the range of products available ...
May 21, 2025
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Security
Britain's justice department said Monday that it shut down online services for legal aid recipients and the lawyers paid to help them after a cyberattack compromised personal information including criminal records, national ...
May 19, 2025
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Security
New regulations threaten the security of the personal data of cryptocurrency users and may expose them to "physical danger," the platform at the center of last week's Paris kidnapping attempt has claimed.
May 18, 2025
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Internet
Coinbase on Thursday said criminals bribed and duped their way to stealing cryptocurrency from its users, then tried to blackmail the exchange to keep the crime quiet.
May 16, 2025
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Business
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.S., said Thursday that criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange's customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million ...
May 15, 2025
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Security
Too many businesses are treating cybersecurity as an optional extra rather than a necessary investment, says a Bayes Business School expert in technology and innovation, responding to recent cyber-attacks on Co-op and Marks ...
May 15, 2025
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Security
A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks—which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding ...
May 14, 2025
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Security
The cyberattack that has targeted Marks & Spencer's (M&S) is the latest in a growing wave of cases involving something called sim-swap fraud. While the full technical details remain under investigation, a report in the Times ...
May 14, 2025
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Security
British retailer Marks & Spencer said on Tuesday that some personal data of its customers was stolen in a cyberattack that has crippled its online services for weeks.
May 13, 2025
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Business
Meta on Saturday vowed to fight Nigerian fines for various consumer data violations, reportedly threatening to cut off Facebook and Instagram in Africa's most populous country.
May 4, 2025
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