01 Oct

Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine

The UK’s data watchdog has described Imgur’s move to block UK users as “a commercial decision” after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab. It

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01 Oct

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him

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01 Oct

Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike

Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks — and the consequences are severe, with students’ coursework being permanently lost

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01 Oct

Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers

Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a

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30 Sep

Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI

The North Korean IT worker threat extends well beyond tech companies, with fraudsters interviewing at a “surprising” number of healthcare orgs, according to Okta Threat

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30 Sep

Tile trackers are a stalker’s dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360’s security promises, a group of Georgia

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30 Sep

Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it

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30 Sep

Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears

Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by “advanced” attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver

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30 Sep

TMI: How cloud collaboration suites drive oversharing and unmanaged access

Partner Content Seamless collaboration through cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 has radically reshaped the modern workplace. In the span of an hour, you could go

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30 Sep

Sharpening the Focus on Product Requirements and Cybersecurity Risks: Updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers

Over the past few months, NIST has been revising and updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers (NIST IR 8259 Revision 1 Initial Public Draft),

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30 Sep

Britain’s policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by

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30 Sep

£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

London’s Metropolitan Police has secured a “landmark conviction” following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation. Zhimin Qian, 47, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty

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30 Sep

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg

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30 Sep

Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to – and funding for –  the Center for Internet Security,

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29 Sep

One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist

A fake npm package posing as Postmark’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line

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29 Sep

Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer

Japan’s largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks

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29 Sep

UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests

The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.

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29 Sep

UK minister suggests government could ditch ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk’s X

The UK government should consider the possibility of leaving social media platform X, a high-profile minister has suggested. Speaking at the Labour Party conference, energy

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