07 Aug

Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats

Microsoft has labelled Delta Air Lines’ accusations it’s partly to blame for the outages caused by CrowdStrike’s buggy software “false” and “misleading” – and insulted

Author rabih
07 Aug

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review the Falcon functionality that sparked a global IT outage last month – but it may not

Author rabih
07 Aug

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review Falcon code

CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review the Falcon functionality that sparked a global IT outage last month – but it may not

Author rabih
06 Aug

Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others

Google released 46 fixes for Android in its August security patch batch, including one for a Linux kernel flaw in the mobile OS that can

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06 Aug

Sonic Automotive says ransomware-linked CDK software outage cost it $30M

One of the US’s largest car dealerships says the IT outage caused by CDK Global’s June ransomware attack cost it approximately $30 million. Sonic Automotive

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06 Aug

Bad apps bypass Windows security alerts for six years using newly unveiled trick

Elastic Security Labs has lifted the lid on a slew of methods available to attackers who want to run malicious apps without triggering Windows’ security

Author rabih
06 Aug

Users call on Microsoft to update Outlook’s friendly name feature

Users are urging Microsoft to rethink how it shows sender email addresses in Outlook because phishing criminals are taking advantage, using helpful, friendly names to

Author rabih
06 Aug

Billion-dollar bust as international op shutters Cryptonator wallet

Users of Cryptonator – an online digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange – received an unpleasant surprise last weekend after the service was shuttered in a

Author rabih
06 Aug

MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices

UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and

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06 Aug

Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices

UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and

Author rabih
06 Aug

Illinois relaxes biometric privacy law so snafus won’t cost businesses billions

The US state of Illinois has reduced penalties for breaches of its tough Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The first version of BIPA, which came

Author rabih
06 Aug

NFL to begin using face scanning tech across all of its stadiums

The National Football League and all 32 of its teams will use tech from facial recognition software vendor Wicket to verify the identity of thousands

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05 Aug

That cyber-heist of 2.9B personal records? There’s a class-action lawsuit looming for that

A lawsuit has accused a Florida data broker of carelessly failing to secure billions of records of people’s private information, which was subsequently stolen from

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05 Aug

Your copilot for improved cyber protection

Sponsored Post Cyber security is complex right, particularly when you’re tyring to monitor and configure multiple tools across a host of different on- and off-premise

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05 Aug

Sneaky SnakeKeylogger slithers into Windows inboxes to steal sensitive secrets

Criminals are preying on Windows users yet again, this time in an effort to hit them with a keylogger that can also steal credentials and

Author rabih
05 Aug

CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta’s ‘litigation threat,’ claims airline refused ‘free on-site help’

CrowdStrike says it is “highly disappointed” and rejects the claims made by Delta and its lawyers that the vendor exhibited gross negligence in the events

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05 Aug

China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes

Chinese app developers have signed up to beta test a national cyberspace ID system that will use facial recognition technology and the real names of

Author rabih
05 Aug

Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator

Infosec in brief Scammers have been using Google’s own ad system to fool people into downloading a borked copy of the Chocolate Factory’s Authenticator software.

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