High-profile ransomware incidents affecting leading UK retailers continue to grab headlines, but in the background, total ransomware attack volumes appear to have eased off over the past few weeks, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse report. NCC’s extensive telemetry observed 416 ransomware attacks in April 2025, down 31% month on month, with 78%…
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With this year’s iPhone 17 lineup, Apple is expected to make a noticeable change to the design of the phone’s back. Rumors suggest Cupertino will add a camera bar look to three of the four iPhone 17 models. This means the back of the iPhone will look quite different from the design introduced with the…
This is when the iPhone will finally get a major front-side design overhaul Read More »
As Apple faces losing control over the App Store in the US, the company published a press release revealing that it stopped over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and blocked nearly 2 million risky app submissions from reaching users in 2024.While it’s always interesting to see the company’s efforts to prevent fraud on the…
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In less than two weeks, Apple will hold its WWDC 2025 keynote. Along with unveiling new features for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, tvOS 19, and visionOS 3, Apple could also use the event to introduce new products.There aren’t many rumors about possible hardware announcements at WWDC 2025, but Apple has introduced…
After holding its Opera Browser Days in Lisbon and teasing its agentic feature with Browse Operator, which can perform tasks on the web on your behalf, the Norwegian company decided to go a step further by introducing an all-new browser. This time, the Opera Neon is focused on agentic browsing while also being an AI…
Opera Neon debuts as the latest AI-powered agentic browser Read More »
Financial technology (fintech) companies have a strong security posture but are at risk from third-party weaknesses, according to analysis. In its latest report, SecurityScorecard stated that the fintech sector ranked highest of all sectors studied when it came to security posture, but it found potential third-party weak links could open the door to security breaches.…
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Anthropic released the Claude 4 family last week, just a few months after making Claude 3.7 available to users.Claude 4 is so powerful that Anthropic had to increase security for the model. Tests showed that Claude 4 would otherwise make it easier for people with nefarious intentions to obtain help creating bioweapons or new viruses.…
Claude AI just got two free features users will love: Voice mode and search Read More »
The software arm of Capital One has expanded the availability of a tool that enables IT departments to improve their data security using data tokenisation. The business-to-business software division of the financial services company has made its Databolt data tokenisation software available on two major data platforms – Databricks and Snowflake. Capital One describes its…
Vast Data has announced an agentic AI application environment – the Vast AgentEngine – for its data management stack, which ultimately rests on its Vast Data Store storage subsystem family. The move marks a further foray out into the world of data management and applications, with special focus on AI and handling vector data that…
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Earlier this month the House of Lords had its first debate on the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill. The Bill aims to reduce government losses to benefit fraud and error, and would give the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unprecedented powers of investigation to routinely and covertly check benefit claimants’ bank accounts,…
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