08 Oct

Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims

Google has apparently started a global rollout of three features in Android designed to make life a lot harder for thieves to profit from purloined

Author rabih
08 Oct

Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group

The US government is attempting to claw back more than $2.67 million stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus Group, filing two lawsuits to force the forfeiture

Author rabih
08 Oct

American Water rinsed in cyberattack, turns off app

American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app

Author rabih
08 Oct

American Water stops billing for H2O due to cyberattack

American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app

Author rabih
07 Oct

American Water stops billing for H2O due to ‘cybersecurity incident’

American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app

Author rabih
07 Oct

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

Police around the United States are routinely using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects, but those departments rarely disclose they’ve done so – even

Author rabih
07 Oct

Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen

Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were among the US broadband providers whose networks were reportedly hacked by Chinese cyberspies, possibly compromising the wiretapping systems used

Author rabih
07 Oct

Mind the (air) gap: GoldenJackal gooses government guardrails

ESET researchers discovered a series of attacks on a governmental organization in Europe using tools capable of targeting air-gapped systems. The campaign, which we attribute

Author rabih
07 Oct

Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code

Opinion The people are defeated. Worn out, deflated, and apathetic about the barrage of banners and pop-ups about cookies and permissions. Brits hate how big

Author rabih
05 Oct

Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry into Ryanair’s Customer Verification Process for travelers booking flights through third-party websites or online travel agents

Author rabih
05 Oct

UK’s Sellafield nuke waste processing plant fined £333K for infosec blunders

The outfit that runs Britain’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing and decommissioning site has been fined £332,500 ($440,000) by the nation’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)

Author rabih
04 Oct

About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

Comcast says data on 237,703 of its customers was in fact stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector it was using, contrary to previous

Author rabih
04 Oct

Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks

Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope

Author rabih
04 Oct

The complexities of attack attribution – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video As highlighted by new ESET research this week, attributing a cyberattack to a specific threat actor is a complex affair 04 Oct 2024 Attributing

Author rabih
04 Oct

Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords

Apple just fixed a duo of security bugs in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1, one of which might cause users’ saved passwords to be read

Author rabih
04 Oct

Visit CyberThreat 2024 to hone your cybersecurity skills

Sponsored Post This year’s CyberThreat returns to London to provide a place for cybersecurity professionals to share experiences, new tools and techniques to help organisations

Author rabih
04 Oct

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

A pair of inventive Harvard undergraduates have created what they believe could be one of the most intrusive devices ever built – a wake-up call,

Author rabih
04 Oct

Big names among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks

Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope

Author rabih
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