29 Aug

AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia’s APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts

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29 Aug

Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug

Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of

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29 Aug

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

Senior officials are being summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations

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28 Aug

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned ‘nearly every American’

China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications

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28 Aug

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.   While not

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28 Aug

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry’s efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too

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28 Aug

FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity

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28 Aug

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn’t doing a very good job of preventing state secrets

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28 Aug

16 billion credentials exposed: why your business needs a password manager now

Partner Content Ever felt that gut punch after losing something important, like your house keys? Now picture those, along with 184 million others, resting in

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28 Aug

SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network

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28 Aug

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russia-based Yandex dev

updated A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects – and more than 30 Department of Defense ones – appears to have a sole

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28 Aug

TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached

Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals. Readers may notice the irony of a

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28 Aug

Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches

Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is already being

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28 Aug

Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K

Sweden’s municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demanding the bargain-basement sum of $168,000. Miljödata runs HR, sick

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28 Aug

Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch

Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks to an apparent failure in PayPal’s fraud-detection

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28 Aug

Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details

A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up for victims of

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28 Aug

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2025 edition

From Meta shutting down millions of WhatsApp accounts linked to scam centers all the way to attacks at water facilities in Europe, August 2025 saw

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28 Aug

If you thought China’s Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again

China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a joint security alert from cyber and law

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