18 Jun

EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians

On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication. The

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18 Jun

Dark-web kingpin puts ‘stolen’ internal AMD databases, source code up for sale

AMD’s IT team is no doubt going through its logs today after cyber-crooks put up for sale what is claimed to be internal data stolen

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18 Jun

CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech … but where’s Arm?

A group of technology organizations has formed the CHERI Alliance CIC (Community Interest Company) to promote industry adoption of the security technology focused on memory

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18 Jun

Uncle Sam ends financial support to orgs hurt by Change Healthcare attack

The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February. First launched

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18 Jun

NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn’t give cyberattackers what they wanted

The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting

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18 Jun

NHS boss says Scottish trust didn’t meet attackers’ demands

The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting

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18 Jun

VMware by Broadcom warns of two critical vCenter flaws, plus a nasty sudo bug

VMware by Broadcom has revealed a pair of critical-rated flaws in vCenter Server – the tool used to manage virtual machines and hosts in its

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18 Jun

Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time

In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may

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18 Jun

Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US

The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges

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17 Jun

Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam

Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of cybersecurity failings over

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17 Jun

Suspected underworld Empire Market bosses face possible life behind bars

The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges

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17 Jun

UK’s Total Fitness exposed nearly 500K images of members, staff through unprotected database

Exclusive A cybersecurity researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a database

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17 Jun

Feds cuff suspected bosses of underworld Empire Market

The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been arrested on charges

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17 Jun

Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack

Months after escaping without a fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the luck of cloud software biz Blackbaud ran out when it came

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17 Jun

Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader

Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider just before he boarded a private flight

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17 Jun

AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you …

Heads up: Amazon Web Services is pushing ahead with making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for certain users, and we love to see it. The cloud

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17 Jun

UK’s Total Fitness exposed nearly 500k images of members and staff through unprotected database

A security researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a database chock-full

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17 Jun

Preventative defense tactics in the real world

Business Security Don’t get hacked in the first place – it costs far less than dealing with the aftermath of a successful attack Cameron Camp

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