10 Jul

Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday Clear your Microsoft system administrator’s diary: The bundle of fixes in Redmond’s July Patch Tuesday is a doozy, with at least two bugs

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09 Jul

FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots

The FBI and cybersecurity agencies in Canada and the Netherlands say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong Twitter bot farm set up by Russian

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09 Jul

Elexon’s Insight into UK electricity felled by expired certificate

Certificate Watch Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon. Elexon is an

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09 Jul

Evolve Bank & Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6 million people’s data

Evolve Bank & Trust says the data of more than 7.6 million customers was stolen during the LockBit break-in in late May, per a fresh

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09 Jul

Houthi rebels are operating their own GuardZoo spyware

Interview When it comes to surveillance malware, sophisticated spyware with complex capabilities tends to hog the limelight – for example NSO Group’s Pegasus, which is

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09 Jul

5 common Ticketmaster scams: How fraudsters steal the show

Scams Scammers gonna scam scam scam, so before hunting for your tickets to a Taylor Swift gig or other in-demand events, learn how to stop

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09 Jul

Microsoft China staff can’t log on with an Android, so Redmond buys them iThings

Microsoft China will provide staff with Apple devices so they can log on to the software giant’s systems. The Register confirmed this odd state of

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09 Jul

Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has warned that scammers are targeting scam victims with fake offers to help them recover from scams. The Commission (ACCC)

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09 Jul

China’s APT40 gang is ready to attack vulns within hours or days of public release.

Law enforcement agencies from eight nations, led by Australia, have issued an advisory that details the tradecraft used by China-aligned threat actor APT40 – aka

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08 Jul

Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey’s support site

Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error. SwiftKey is a predictive keyboard for Android,

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08 Jul

Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished

Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims’ cryptography, the company

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08 Jul

Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads

Partner Content : Opening a bank account, making or receiving a payment, instructing an accountant or booking a doctor’s appointment. These everyday tasks depend on

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08 Jul

Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts

The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the pandemic forced more business to

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08 Jul

Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach

security in brief It’s been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023

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08 Jul

A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors

Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance

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05 Jul

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin

At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin’s internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them down.

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05 Jul

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London’s biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin’s

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05 Jul

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler

Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming

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