VMware invests $100m in EMEA skills centre

VMware plans to invest $100-million over five years with the development of a Digital Sales Centre, based in Barcelona, Spain. The centre is intended to create 120 jobs, with capacity to increase to 250 people as part of VMware’s ongoing strategy to build and...
This is what a black hole in space looks like – first-ever images

This is what a black hole in space looks like – first-ever images

A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called theĀ Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). EHT is an international collaboration whose support in the US includes the National...
Pensioners hit hard with credit card fraud

Pensioners hit hard with credit card fraud

There has been a sharp increase in credit card fraud during the first quarter of 2019, according to a review by the Ombudsman for Banking Services. Credit card fraud is theft involving a payment card – either debit or credit – as a fraudulent source of...

Report shows cloud servers are under constant attack

It took less than a minute – just 52 seconds – after a cloud server honeypot went live for cybercriminals to attack it. This is among the results from a new Sophos report, “Exposed: Cyberattacks on Cloud Honeypots”, which found that, on...

Rare spying platform comes to light

Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a technically sophisticated cyberespionage framework that has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be unconnected to any known threat actors. The framework, which researchers have named TajMahal, features around 80...

Victims pay up in (s)extortion scams

ESET has issued a warning to users who receive fraudulent e-mail messages that seek to extort money, especially from people watching online pornographic videos. The attacker in the email claims they have hacked the intended victim’s device and has recorded the...