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Emma Woollacott, Features writer

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Emma Woollacott writes about business, technology and digital rights for titles including the BBC, Forbes, and Private Eye. She lives in Oxford, but escapes to Sri Lanka whenever she can.

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NIST plots biggest ever reform of Cybersecurity Framework23 February 2023 at 15:55 UTCFacebook two-factor authentication bypass issue patched27 January 2023 at 11:50 UTCHow to become a penetration tester: Part 2 – ‘Mr Hacking’ John Jackson on the virtue of ‘endless curiosity’ 20 December 2022 at 16:52 UTCHow to become a penetration tester: Part 1 – your path into offensive security testing29 November 2022 at 15:13 UTCCritical authentication bug in Fortinet products actively exploited in the wild25 October 2022 at 13:53 UTCSecurity certification body (ISC)² defends ‘undemocratic’ bylaw changes19 October 2022 at 15:11 UTCDex patches authentication bug that enabled unauthorized access to client applications06 October 2022 at 16:00 UTCMatrix address flaws that break message encryption assurances04 October 2022 at 14:49 UTCResearchers net $46k for Akamai misconfiguration vulnerability04 October 2022 at 10:41 UTCVulnerability in Apache Pulsar allowed manipulator-in-the-middle attacks28 September 2022 at 15:30 UTCManageEngine vulnerability posed code injection risk for password management software09 September 2022 at 12:46 UTCWatchGuard firewall exploit threatens appliance takeover01 September 2022 at 13:08 UTCMultiple cloud vendors impacted by PostgreSQL vulnerability that exposed enterprise databases16 August 2022 at 12:40 UTCParseThru: HTTP parameter smuggling flaw uncovered in several Go applications04 August 2022 at 10:55 UTCGitHub enhances 2FA for NPM, improves security and manageability28 July 2022 at 15:32 UTCOne in five data breaches due to software supply chain compromise, IBM report warns27 July 2022 at 15:04 UTCCritical security vulnerability in Grails could lead to remote code execution26 July 2022 at 13:01 UTCWordPress plugin security audit unearths dozens of vulnerabilities impacting 60,000 websites21 July 2022 at 13:33 UTCLDAP Account Manager bug poses unauthenticated remote code execution risk19 July 2022 at 10:52 UTCSMEs slow to adopt MFA – study07 July 2022 at 14:10 UTCRansomware market evolution results in fewer variants, but rise in off-the-shelf cybercrime kits continues28 June 2022 at 12:26 UTCSplunk patches critical vulnerability while users push for legacy updates23 June 2022 at 12:03 UTCRubyGems trials 2FA-by-default in code repo’s latest security effort17 June 2022 at 12:17 UTCIndian VPN providers resist incoming data-logging law08 June 2022 at 10:28 UTCVast majority of ethical hackers keen to spend more time bug bounty hunting – report07 June 2022 at 10:25 UTCUS export ban on hacking tools tweaked after public consultation01 June 2022 at 15:54 UTCYik Yak fixes information disclosure bug that leaked users’ GPS location23 May 2022 at 14:10 UTCFacebook account takeover: Researcher scoops $40k bug bounty for chained exploit18 May 2022 at 11:11 UTCMarcus Hutchins on halting the WannaCry ransomware attack – ‘Still to this day it feels like it was all a weird dream’12 May 2022 at 14:52 UTCRuTube hack: Russian video platform denies loss of source code following cyber-attack11 May 2022 at 11:53 UTCGitHub offers post-mortem on recent security breach29 April 2022 at 10:44 UTCXSS vulnerability in open source tool PrivateBin patched18 April 2022 at 11:30 UTCPacketStreamer: New tool can aid research by revealing potential hacking behaviors11 April 2022 at 10:52 UTCUS healthcare data breach impacts 85,000 law enforcement officers31 March 2022 at 10:46 UTCApple Safari empowers developers to mitigate web flaws with WebKit CSP enhancements18 March 2022 at 11:53 UTC‘Cybersecurity incident’ at Ubisoft disrupts operations, forces company-wide password reset14 March 2022 at 13:46 UTCMicrosoft praised for quickly resolving Azure Automation cloud security vulnerability11 March 2022 at 11:52 UTCDNA data of sexual assault victims exposed in breach at US laboratory25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTCGoogle Groups unsubscribe feature abused to remove members without consent23 February 2022 at 11:52 UTCMicrosoft bolsters Edge browser security with enhanced features17 February 2022 at 15:50 UTC