02 Apr

Polish officials may face criminal charges in Pegasus spyware probe

Former Polish government officials may face criminal charges following an investigation into their use of the notorious spyware Pegasus to surveil political opponents and others.

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02 Apr

INC Ransom claims to be behind ‘cyber incident’ at UK city council

The cyber skids at INC Ransom are claiming responsbility for the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Leicester City Council, according to a post caught by eagle-eyed

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02 Apr

Malware hiding in pictures? More likely than you think

Malware, Digital Security There is more to some images than meets the eye – their seemingly innocent façade can mask a sinister threat. Márk Szabó

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02 Apr

Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you’re mostly grown up – now fix the spam

It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just

Author rabih
02 Apr

Apple’s GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed

Opinion Apple is good at security. It’s good at processors. Thus GoFetch, a major security flaw in its processor architecture, is a double whammy. What

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02 Apr

Six banks share customer info to help Singapore fight money laundering

ASIA IN BRIEF Singapore’s Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named “COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases” (COSMIC for short, obviously)

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01 Apr

US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you!

Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a

Author rabih
01 Apr

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source

Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had

Author rabih
01 Apr

AT&T admits massive 70M+ mid-March customer data dump is real though old

AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do

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01 Apr

Watch Out For IRS Scams and Avoid Identity Theft

It’s time to get those W-2 and 1099 tax forms ready. On January 29th, the IRS began accepting paper and electronic tax returns ahead of

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01 Apr

Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft

Infosec in brief Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims

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01 Apr

Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster

Interview Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be

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01 Apr

AT&T admits massive 70m+ mid-March data dump is real, but claims it’s years old

That rumored AT&T dark web customer data dump from mid-March has been confirmed, and it’s a whopper: A total of more than 73 million current

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31 Mar

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are

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30 Mar

AT&T Data Leak: What You Need to Know and How to Protect Yourself

AT&T, one of the largest telecom giants, recently acknowledged a significant data leak that has affected millions of its customers. The leaked dataset, which includes

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29 Mar

Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world’s data compression library

Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux

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29 Mar

Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching

A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at

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29 Mar

RDP remains a security concern – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Much has been written about the risks that poorly-secured RDP connections entail, but many organizations continue to leave themselves at risk and get hit

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