08 Oct

Microsoft issues 117 patches – some for flaws already under attack

Patch Tuesday It’s the second Tuesday of the month, which means Patch Tuesday, bringing with it fixes for numerous flaws, bugs and vulnerabilities in major

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08 Oct

Qualcomm urges device makers to push patches after ‘targeted’ exploitation

Qualcomm has issued 20 patches for its chipsets’ firmware, including one Digital Signal Processor (DSP) software flaw that has been exploited in the wild. That

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08 Oct

Using iPhone Mirroring at work? You might have just overshared to your boss

If you’re using iPhone Mirroring at work: it’s time to stop, lest you give your employer’s IT department the capability to snoop through your dating

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08 Oct

Scalability Challenges in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

This post is part of a series on privacy-preserving federated learning. The series is a collaboration between NIST and the UK government’s Responsible Technology Adoption

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08 Oct

Cyber insurance, human risk, and the potential for cyber-ratings

Business Security Could human risk in cybersecurity be managed with a cyber-rating, much like credit scores help assess people’s financial responsibility? Tony Anscombe 08 Oct

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08 Oct

Happy birthday, Putin – you’ve been pwned

Ukrainian hackers shut down Russian state news agency VGTRK’s online broadcasting and streaming services on Monday – president Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday – as Kremlin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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