The Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia and the ports of Montreal and Quebec in the province of Quebec were hit by a cyber attack on Wednesday, but cargo continues to move at all three facilities. The ports’ websites...

Ford drivers will legally be able to take their hands off the wheel on the move after its BlueCruise technology has been approved in the UK. Ministers have approved the "hands-off, eyes-on" technology for use on certain motorways. It can control...

The building of new smart motorways is being cancelled as Rishi Sunak acknowledged concerns about safety and cost. Fourteen planned smart motorways – including 11 that are already paused and three earmarked for construction – will be removed from government road-building plans, given financial...

For this new year, there are plenty of concerns fleet managers have about the future of trucking maintenance. However, an emerging problem has been the danger of cyberattacks. Once a method of stealing user and financial information, hacking into...

The three divisions of Rheinmetall, a leading German armaments and technology company, were targeted by a cyberattack late Friday. The attacks, however, did not affect company operations, according to officials. According to spokesperson Oliver Hoffmann, "the civilian business essentially consists...

Ransomware and data breaches were the most prominent cyber-threats affecting Europe’s transportation sector last year, with incidents of the former almost doubling in volume, according to ENISA. The EU security agency’s first ever threat landscape report for the vertical covers the...

Walmart announced Thursday it plans to add electric vehicle charging stations to thousands of U.S. stores by 2030. The company announced it would expand its EV fast-charging network to Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the country, adding to the...

Up to Voi 10,000 e-scooter Weekly riders forces to switch elsewhere Up to 10,000 e-scooter users had been using the transport each week in Birmingham - but scores are now turning to using cars, the firm which supplied the mode...

‘The popularity of the €9 tickets had been unabated and the positive effect on it in tackling climate change is verifiable,’ says transport association Germany’s much-vaunted discounted train ticket scheme “saved 1.8 million tons of CO2”, according to new research. The pilot programme, which...

The process of securing an overseas visa has been thrown into disarray after UK’s criminal records office was hit with a two-month cyber security “incident”, the Standard can reveal. ACRO, the national policing body which manages criminal record information and the exchange of...

Capita, one of the UK government’s biggest contractors, said it was investigating an IT failure that left staff unable to access systems and disrupted services provided to local authorities as well as to some businesses. The company, which provides IT...

A regional Victorian real estate agency has fallen victim to a data breach. PH Property Bendigo sent an email to clients yesterday afternoon saying a staff member's email address was hacked on March 15. The hackers managed to get past security protocols...

BMW France has been named on a dark-web blog that crooks use to publicize their latest victims. The company said it's investigating the case. Play ransomware claims to have breached BMW France on March 28, and threatens to leak the...

passengers set to benefit from more streamlined journey planning apps and timetables through measures to improve transport datathe Transport Data Strategy aims to support greater innovation by improving the accessibility and quality of transport dataenhancing transport data aims to...

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system. Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign that resulted in 9,931 accounts at over 130 organizations being compromised. The...

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has a track record of targeting India and Afghanistan has been linked to a new phishing campaign that delivers Action RAT. According to Cyble, which attributed the operation to SideCopy, the activity cluster is designed to...

Consumer lender says details taken include 7.9m driver’s licence numbers and 53,000 passport numbers Latitude Financial has revealed that 14m customer records – including driver’s licence numbers, passport numbers and financial statements – were stolen from its system in a...

The National Audit Office (NAO) has called for a “reset” at High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Euston terminus as the current plan is forecast to be £2.2bn overbudget and could worsen with the two year pause on construction. The public spending...

Last month, Cyclone Gabrielle smashed into New Zealand's North Island - killing 11 people and displacing at least 10,000 more. It's triggered a national debate about climate change and whether vulnerable homes should be rebuilt or written off. "I don't...

A United Nations report has warned of a looming global water crisis and an "imminent risk" of shortages due to overconsumption and climate change. The world is "blindly travelling a dangerous path" of "vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment", the report says. Its...

Energy firms have called on ministers to reduce the windfall tax as oil and gas prices fall, ahead of a package of measures on energy security expected to be announced on Thursday. Trade body Offshore Energies UK said that "when...

In what's a case of setting a thief to catch a thief, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has created a network of fake DDoS-for-hire websites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. "All of the NCA-run sites,...

At least 26 people have died after a powerful tornado ripped through several southern US states, destroying buildings and knocking out power. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced late Saturday afternoon that the number of deaths in the state had...

Italian carmaker Ferrari says it will refuse to pay a ransom after an unspecified threat actor broke into its IT systems and stole customer data Supercar manufacturer Ferrari has warned customers that their personal data may be at risk after a limited...

The design of the last visible structure along the route of HS2's longest tunnel has been revealed. The north portal of the 10-mile (16km) Chiltern tunnel, will be built low into the landscape between Great Missenden and South Heath in...

Speaking at the United Nations Water Conference, Lord Goldsmith announced a new programme to improve access to safe, reliable and affordable water supplies. the UK has announced a new 5-year programme to improve access to safe, reliable and affordable water...

The idea of the ‘connected car’ has existed for many years but now they’ve developed to the point at which vehicles can have dozens of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) controlling systems that drivers might never interact with. Each component...

Hackers have been enjoying their fair share of the spotlight by breaching car manufacturers' defenses. The latest Cybernews discovery showcases that popular car brands sometimes leave their doors open, as if inviting threat actors to feast on their client...

Two Saudi Arabia-based airlines have signed agreements with Boeing for up to 121 Dreamliners.   Riyadh Air, a new Saudi Arabian carrier owned by the country's Public Investment Fund (PIF), has said that it will purchase 39 Boeing 787-9s, with options...