27 Jan

DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack

China’s DeepSeek, which shook up US AI companies with the debut of its R1 model family, has limited new signups due to ongoing cyberattack. “Due

Author rabih
27 Jan

Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’

Google says it’s now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week. Zach Latta, founder of Hack Club, told

Author rabih
27 Jan

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

Swedish authorities have “seized” a vessel – believed to be the cargo ship Vezhen – “suspected of carrying out sabotage” after a cable running between Sweden

Author rabih
27 Jan

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning – Future Collaboration and Continued Research

Reflections and Wider Considerations This is the final post in the series that began with reflections and learnings from the first US-UK collaboration working with

Author rabih
27 Jan

CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy

Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare’s content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps like Signal,

Author rabih
27 Jan

British Museum says ex-contractor ‘shut down’ IT systems, wreaked havoc

The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some

Author rabih
25 Jan

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023. The devices

Author rabih
25 Jan

UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway

UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it’s currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs. An

Author rabih
24 Jan

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he’s now

Author rabih
24 Jan

North Korean dev who renamed himself ‘Bane’ accused of IT worker fraud caper

The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea’s long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who

Author rabih
24 Jan

Don’t want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now

A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in

Author rabih
24 Jan

North Korean dev who renamed himself ‘Bane’ accused of IT worker fraud scheme

The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea’s long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who

Author rabih
24 Jan

China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps

A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made good progress dismantling the operations.

Author rabih
24 Jan

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional

It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people’s private communications

Author rabih
23 Jan

One of Salt Typhoon’s favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers

One of the critical security flaws exploited by China’s Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for nearly

Author rabih
23 Jan

Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug in Meeting Management

Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges

Author rabih
23 Jan

Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug

Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges

Author rabih
23 Jan

SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix

SonicWall is warning customers of a critical vulnerability that was potentially already exploited as a zero-day. The bug affects SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) line,

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