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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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)

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
04 Oct

Big brands among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks

Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope

Author rabih
04 Oct

The complexities of attack attribution – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video As highlighted by new ESET research this week, attributing a cyberattack to a specific threat actor is a complex affair 04 Oct 2024 Attributing

Author rabih
04 Oct

Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords

Apple just fixed a duo of security bugs in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1, one of which might cause users’ saved passwords to be read

Author rabih
04 Oct

Visit CyberThreat 2024 to hone your cybersecurity skills

Sponsored Post This year’s CyberThreat returns to London to provide a place for cybersecurity professionals to share experiences, new tools and techniques to help organisations

Author rabih
04 Oct

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

A pair of inventive Harvard undergraduates have created what they believe could be one of the most intrusive devices ever built – a wake-up call,

Author rabih
04 Oct

Big names among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks

Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope

Author rabih
03 Oct

Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick

A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found their pay has risen over the past year to an average of

Author rabih
03 Oct

DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing attacks

The US Department of Justice and Microsoft have seized 107 websites used by Russian cyberspies in a phishing campaign to steal sensitive information from US

Author rabih
03 Oct

Average North American CISO salary now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick

A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found that salaries have risen over the last year to an average of

Author rabih
03 Oct

Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam

Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for serious business email compromise schemes in the US this week, netting them millions of dollars from local government entities,

Author rabih
03 Oct

Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant

Exclusive An extortionist armed with a new variant of MedusaLocker ransomware has infected more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022, according to

Author rabih
03 Oct

Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can’t be bothered to do much about it

Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech companies, yet the furthest many

Author rabih
02 Oct

700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking

Fourteen bugs in DrayTek routers — including one critical remote-code-execution flaw that received a perfect 10 out of 10 CVSS severity rating — could be

Author rabih
02 Oct

Two simple give-me-control security bugs found in Optigo network switches used in critical manufacturing

Two trivial but critical security holes have been found in Optigo’s Spectra Aggregation Switch, and so far no patch is available. The vulnerabilities, both with

Author rabih
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