18 Mar

Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament

Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack.

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18 Mar

How to Spot, and Prevent, the Tax Scams That Target Elders

Elder scams cost seniors in the U.S. some $3 billion annually. And tax season adds a healthy sum to that appalling figure. What makes seniors

Author rabih
18 Mar

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner

Zero tolerance of failure by information security professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cyber security folk to do the essential part of their

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18 Mar

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation

Filipino police rescued 875 “workers” – including 504 foreigners – in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming

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18 Mar

Protecting distributed branch office environments from ransomware

Sponsored Feature Ransomware gangs that steal and encrypt vital business data before extorting payment for its decryption and restoration are ramping up global attacks at

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18 Mar

ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: token obfuscation

in brief Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve

Author rabih
17 Mar

In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don’t leave security behind

Feature While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and

Author rabih
15 Mar

As if working at Helldesk weren’t bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims

IT helpdesk workers are increasingly the target of cybercriminals – a trend researchers have described as “the most noteworthy” of the past year. It’s not

Author rabih
15 Mar

Cop shop rapped for ‘completely avoidable’ web form blunder

The London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds

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15 Mar

Healthcare still a prime target for cybercrime gangs – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Healthcare organizations remain firmly in attackers’ crosshairs, representing 20 percent of all victims of ransomware attacks among critical infrastructure entities in the US in

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14 Mar

Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks

There’s another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such

Author rabih
14 Mar

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement

A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlement following

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14 Mar

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars

A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, £500,000) in restitution to

Author rabih
14 Mar

Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn’t leak to ad giant

Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites, without sending browsing

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14 Mar

Android Phishing Scam Using Malware-as-a-Service on the Rise in India

Authored by ZePeng Chen and Wenfeng Yu  McAfee Mobile Research Team has observed an active scam malware campaign targeting Android users in India. This malware

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14 Mar

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people’s data

A French government department – responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people – is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the

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14 Mar

International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase

The Cybercrime Atlas, a massive undertaking that aims to disrupt cybercriminals across the globe, enters its operational phase in 2024, two years after organizers laid

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14 Mar

US to probe Change Healthcare’s data protection standards as lawsuits mount

Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts. The US Department

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