31 May

What happens when facial recognition gets it wrong – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video A woman in London has been misidentified as a shoplifter by a facial recognition system amid fresh concerns over the technology’s accuracy and reliability

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31 May

Google to push ahead with Chrome’s ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

On Monday, June 3, 2024, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google’s Chrome browser will be presented with a warning banner when

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31 May

FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks

Cloudflare’s threat intel team claims to have thwarted a month-long phishing and espionage attack targeting Ukraine which it has attributed to Russia-aligned gang FlyingYeti. While

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31 May

What You Need to Know About Election Security

As election season approaches, the importance of safeguarding our democratic processes has never been more critical. Ensuring election security is not just the responsibility of

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31 May

Mystery miscreant remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update

Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling

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30 May

OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops

OpenAI on Thursday said it has disrupted five covert influence operations that were attempting to use its AI services to manipulate public opinion and elections.

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30 May

US Treasury says NFTs ‘highly susceptible’ to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals

The US Treasury Department has assessed the risk of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) being used for illicit finance, and has found them wanting for lack of

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30 May

Pretty much all the headaches at MSPs stem from cybersecurity

Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today’s market. Adding to the already notoriously strained existence of

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30 May

Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains

An international law enforcement operation led by Europol has kicked off with the announcement of multiple arrests, searches, seizures and takedowns of malware droppers and

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30 May

Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people

The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees on one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into a database

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30 May

IT worker sued over ‘vengeful’ cyber harassment of policeman who issued a jaywalking ticket

In an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a “destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge” against a police officer and

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30 May

How to Protect Yourself From a Spear Phishing Scam

The term phishing is floating all over the news these days. And no, I’m not misspelling the fun sport where you try to reel in

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30 May

IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability

Exclusive Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on

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30 May

Pretty much all of the headaches affecting MSPs are due to cybersecurity

Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today’s market. Adding to the already notoriously strained existence of

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30 May

AI in HR: Is artificial intelligence changing how we hire employees forever?

In the age of digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has swiftly become a cornerstone of organizational operations. Recruitment – a process that all organizations of

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30 May

Indian stock exchange finally encrypting all messages to traders

India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption – which, shockingly, isn’t already implemented – for certain messages sent

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29 May

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running ‘likely the world’s largest botnet ever’

US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever,” comprising 19 million

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29 May

Miscreants claim they’ve snatched 560M people’s info from Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster is believed to have had its IT breached by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen 1.3TB of data on 560 million of the corporation’s

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