01 Oct

Cybersecurity Awareness Month needs a radical overhaul – it needs legislation

Digital Security Despite their benefits, awareness campaigns alone are not enough to encourage widespread adoption of cybersecurity best practices Tony Anscombe 01 Oct 2024  • 

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01 Oct

Rackspace internal monitoring web servers hit by zero-day

Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its

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01 Oct

Rackspace monitoring systems rocked by zero-day

Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its

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01 Oct

Australian e-tailer digiDirect customers’ info allegedly stolen and dumped online

Data allegedly belonging to more than 304,000 customers of Australian camera and tech e-tailer digiDirect has been leaked to an online cyber crime forum. digiDirect,

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30 Sep

Rackspace monitoring systems hit by zero-day

Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its

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30 Sep

Ransomware forces hospital to turn away ambulances

Ransomware scumbags have caused a vital hospital to turn away ambulances after infecting its computer systems with malware. The University Medical Center in Lubbock, west

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30 Sep

T-Mobile US to cough up $31.5M after that long string of security SNAFUs

T-Mobile US has agreed to fork out $31.5 million to improve its cybersecurity and pay a fine after a string of network intrusions affected millions

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30 Sep

Forget the Kia Boyz: Crooks could hijack your car with just a smartphone

Infosec In Brief Put away that screwdriver and USB charging cable – the latest way to steal a Kia just requires a cellphone and the

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30 Sep

If you’re holding important data, Iran is probably trying spearphish it

US and UK national security agencies are jointly warning about Iranian spearphishing campaigns, which remain an ongoing threat to various industries and governments. A security

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30 Sep

Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own

A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies are unreliable, inconsistent, and marred by bias

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30 Sep

Cloud threats have execs the most freaked out because they’re not prepared

Efficiency and scalability are key benefits of enterprise cloud computing, but they come at a cost. Security threats specific to cloud environments are the leading

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30 Sep

AI code helpers just can’t stop inventing package names

AI models just can’t seem to stop making things up. As two recent studies point out, that proclivity underscores prior warnings not to rely on

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30 Sep

Forget the Kia Boyz: Hackers could hijack your car with just a smartphone

Infosec In Brief Put away that screwdriver and USB charging cable – the latest way to steal a Kia just requires a cellphone and the

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30 Sep

Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India

ASIA IN BRIEF It’s not often The Register writes about a cryptocurrency outfit being on the right side of a scam or crime, but last

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29 Sep

Red team hacker on how she ‘breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy’

Interview A hacker walked into a “very big city” building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or elevators, determined to steal

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27 Sep

Feds charge 3 Iranians with ‘hack-and-leak’ of Trump 2024 campaign

The US Department of Justice has charged three Iranians for their involvement in a “wide-ranging hacking campaign” during which they allegedly stole massive amounts of

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27 Sep

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure. “Recall,” as Microsoft describes it, “is designed

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27 Sep

Ransomware gang using stolen Microsoft Entra ID creds to bust into the cloud

Microsoft’s latest threat intelligence blog issues a warning to all organizations about Storm-0501’s recent shift in tactics, targeting, and backdooring hybrid cloud environments. Using a

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