04 Nov

Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know

Opinion At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack. TfL is the public body that moves many of

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03 Nov

6 IT contractors arrested for defrauding Uncle Sam out of millions

in brief The US Department of Justice has charged six people with two separate schemes to defraud Uncle Sam out of millions of dollars connected

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02 Nov

Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes

The UK’s finance regulator is urging all institutions under its remit to better prepare for IT meltdowns like that of CrowdStrike in July. The Financial

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01 Nov

UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors

Multiple UK councils had their websites either knocked offline or were inaccessible to residents this week after pro-Russia cyber nuisances added them to a daily

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01 Nov

Hack Nintendo’s alarm clock to show cat pics? Let’s-a-go!

A hacker who uses the handle GaryOderNichts has found a way to break into Nintendo’s recently launched Alarmo clock, and run code on the device.

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31 Oct

Gang gobbles 15K credentials from cloud and email providers’ garbage Git configs

A criminal operation dubbed Emeraldwhale has been discovered after it dumped more than 15,000 credentials belonging to cloud service and email providers in an open

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31 Oct

Month in security with Tony Anscombe – October 2024 edition

Video Election interference, American Water and the Internet Archive breaches, new cybersecurity laws, and more – October saw no shortage of impactful cybersecurity news stories

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31 Oct

LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer

LottieFiles is overcoming something of a Halloween fright after battling to regain control of a compromised developer account that was used to exploit users’ crypto

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31 Oct

Tower PC case used as ‘creative cavity’ by drug importer

Australian police have arrested a man after finding he imported what appear to be tower PC cases that were full of illicit drugs. The arrest

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31 Oct

Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years. The biennial National

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30 Oct

Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft

There’s a Windows Themes spoofing zero-day bug on the loose that allows attackers to steal people’s NTLM credentials. That’s the bad news. The good news:

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30 Oct

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer’s systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences.  Michael Scheuer

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30 Oct

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia’s foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel

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30 Oct

How to remove your personal information from Google Search results

How To Have you ever googled yourself? Were you happy with what came up? If not, consider requesting the removal of your personal information from

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30 Oct

Beijing claims it’s found ‘underwater lighthouses’ that its foes use for espionage

China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets. The nation’s

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29 Oct

Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware

The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer.  The story of how

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29 Oct

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the

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29 Oct

How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding

OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the

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