20 Jun

Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs

US rail service Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a

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20 Jun

Crypto exchange Kraken accuses blockchain security outfit CertiK of extortion

Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has accused a trio of security researchers of discovering a critical bug, expoliting it to

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20 Jun

Russia’s cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy

A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France’s computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group’s latest tricks as the country

Author rabih
20 Jun

Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals

Interview The ransomware gang responsible for the current healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about the attack, which was entirely deliberate,

Author rabih
20 Jun

My health information has been stolen. Now what?

Digital Security As health data continues to be a prized target for hackers, here’s how to minimize the fallout from a breach impacting your own

Author rabih
19 Jun

Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into user accounts, derailing email addresses

US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at risk following a

Author rabih
19 Jun

Hacktivism is evolving – and that could be bad news for organizations everywhere

Business Security, Critical Infrastructure Hacktivism is nothing new, but the increasingly fuzzy lines between traditional hacktivism and state-backed operations make it a more potent threat

Author rabih
19 Jun

That PowerShell ‘fix’ for your root cert ‘problem’ is a malware loader in disguise

Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell

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18 Jun

Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech

A now-former IT director has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university at which he was employed, and a computer equipment supplier, for $2.1 million over

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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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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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