The very nature of the oil, gas and petrochemical industry means it is exceptionally vulnerable to attack, making robust cybersecurity a matter of life and death

With only a contact lens and a basic digital camera, hackers have shown the smartphone’s iris scanner can be easily bypassed

A ransomware attack of unprecedented scale has swept the globe, crippling businesses, health services and a range of vital infrastructure

President Trump has signed an executive order to bolster US cyber security following the theft of millions of documents from government agencies

Mastercard will roll out payment cards with fingerprint scanners in South Africa, with trials also planned for Asia Pacific and Europe

UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said intelligence services need access to encrypted messages after last week’s attack in Westminster

China’s introduction of a new cybersecurity law threatens to stifle innovation and harm international business

With IT professionals and users regularly venting frustrations about them, one might wonder why passwords have endured for so long. It turns out the ageing security measure is not so easily replaced

In the largest ever publicly disclosed security breach, Yahoo has admitted that user information from 500 million accounts, including names, emails and unencrypted security questions, has been stolen

Amid the ongoing battle with terrorist organisations, EU powers urge the European Commission to ban end-to-end encryption

Following privacy concerns in the build-up, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that Australia’s online census system was subjected to a cyber-attack and temporarily shut down

The internet and modern society would not be as we know them today were it not for the latest winners of the Turing Award. In light of their win, we explore the history of cryptography and the impact made by its greatest proponents