25 Apr

What to do in the age of the critical breach

The UK government could be forgiven for wanting to forget March 2024 ever happened. MPs lambasted its response to attacks created by the cyber-espionage group

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25 Apr

Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts

India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app. The

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25 Apr

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka access to backdoors

The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance

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25 Apr

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka backdoors

The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance

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24 Apr

Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes

A previously unknown and “sophisticated” nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made

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24 Apr

Shouldn’t Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking

Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and

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24 Apr

Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?

Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company’s own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches. A week

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24 Apr

Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets

A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its

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24 Apr

Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans

Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and

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24 Apr

How to Tell If Your Text Message Is Real 

According to reports from the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel database, text message scams swindled $330 million from Americans in 2022 alone. The staggering figure

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24 Apr

US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies

The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom

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24 Apr

What makes Starmus unique? – A Q&A with award-winning filmmaker Todd Miller

Video The director of the Apollo 11 movie shares his views about the role of technology in addressing pressing global challenges, as well as why

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24 Apr

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an

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23 Apr

UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could ‘cover substantial proportion of people in America’

UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from the massively expensive

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23 Apr

How technology drives progress – A Q&A with Nobel laureate Michel Mayor

Join us as we speak to the Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Michel Mayor about the intersection of technology and scientific discovery, the art of making science

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23 Apr

Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever

The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today. The cyber shop

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23 Apr

UnitedHealth admits breach could ‘cover substantial proportion of people in America’

UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from the massively expensive

Author rabih
23 Apr

Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7

It’s become somewhat cliché in cybersecurity reporting to speculate whether an organization will have the resources to “keep the lights on” after an attack. But

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