13 Dec

Cyber security isn’t simple, but it could be

Sponsored Feature Most experts agree cybersecurity is now so complex that managing it has become a security problem in itself. This has happened gradually over

Author rabih
13 Dec

Think tank report labels NSO, Lazarus, as ‘cyber mercenaries’

Cybercrime gangs like the notorious Lazarus group and spyware vendors like Israel’s NSO should be considered cyber mercenaries – and become the subject of a

Author rabih
13 Dec

Final Patch Tuesday of 2023 goes out with a bang

It’s the last Patch Tuesday of 2023, which calls for celebration – just as soon as you update Windows, Adobe, Google, Cisco, FortiGuard, SAP, VMware, Atlassian

Author rabih
12 Dec

Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired

An ex-First Republic Bank cloud engineer was sentenced to two years in prison for causing more than $220,000 in damage to his former employer’s computer

Author rabih
12 Dec

Discord in the ranks: Lone Airman behind top-secret info leak on chat platform

There was only one US Air National Guardsman behind the leak of top-secret US military documents on Discord, but his chain of command bears some

Author rabih
12 Dec

Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach

An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff. The

Author rabih
12 Dec

A Note on progress…NIST’s Digital Identity Guidelines.

In August 2023 the Digital Identity Guidelines team hosted a two-day workshop to provide a public update on the status of revision 4. As part

Author rabih
12 Dec

A pernicious potpourri of Python packages in PyPI

ESET Research has discovered a cluster of malicious Python projects being distributed in PyPI, the official Python package repository. The threat targets both Windows and

Author rabih
12 Dec

BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz

BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.

Author rabih
12 Dec

Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

Hundreds of suspected people smugglers have been arrested, and 163 potential victims rescued from servitude, as part of an Interpol-coordinated operation dubbed “Turquesa V” that

Author rabih
12 Dec

Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses

Many US businesses may be required to assist in government-directed surveillance – depending upon which of two reform bills before Congress is approved. Under rules

Author rabih
11 Dec

2.5M patients infected with data loss in Norton Healthcare ransomware outbreak

Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people’s most

Author rabih
11 Dec

2.5M patents infected with data loss in Norton Healthcare ransomware outbreak

Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people’s most

Author rabih
11 Dec

Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware

Research into Lazarus Group’s attacks using Log4Shell has revealed novel malware strains written in an atypical programming language. DLang is among the newer breed of

Author rabih
11 Dec

Two years on, 1 in 4 apps still vulnerable to Log4Shell

Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications are dependent on outdated

Author rabih
11 Dec

Read the clouds, reduce the cyber risk

Webinar In the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud – a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. But in our global business environment,

Author rabih
11 Dec

Black Hat Europe 2023: Should we regulate AI?

We Live Progress ChatGPT would probably say “Definitely not!”, but will we learn any lessons from the rush to regulate IoT in the past? Tony

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11 Dec

23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms

Security in brief The saga of 23andMe’s mega data breach has reached something of a conclusion, with the company saying its probe has determined millions

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