The EU's crime defence arm, Europol, has announced the formation of J-CAT, a global cybersecurity taskforce dedicated to dealing with "top-end [cyber] crimes."
If you’re one of the 500,000 victims hit by the cryptolocker ransomware blight that hit the UK over the past year, your luck might be about to change.
A group of hackers known as the Lizard Squad recently targeted the National Crime Agency (NCA) website, bringing it down for a few hours.
Four UK citizens have been arrested in a Europe-wide crackdown on computer hijacking that saw offenders remotely control computers and steal information without the user knowing.
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) will be working together with Police and other partners across industry and the public sector to help businesses and citizens guard against cyber crime.
An alert from the NCA explains that members of the public need to update security software and check operating systems are up to date to prevent the attack.
Particular criticism was reserved for the NCA’s decision to tell users to refrain from saving passwords on a computer and various tools were suggested to help keep data secure.
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