01 Nov

Get your very own ransomware empire on the cheap, while stocks last

The short-lived RansomedVC ransomware operation is being shopped around by its owner, who is claiming to offer a 20 percent discount just a day after

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01 Nov

Who killed Mozi? Finally putting the IoT zombie botnet in its grave

ESET Research How ESET Research found a kill switch that had been used to take down one of the most prolific botnets out there 01

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01 Nov

Meeting the challenge of OT security

Webinar Cyberattacks on industrial control systems are becoming more common, and there isn’t likely to be a let up any time soon. The fallout from

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01 Nov

Indian politicians say Apple warned them of state-sponsored attacks

Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors. All of the politicians

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31 Oct

US officials close to persuading allies to not pay off ransomware crooks

Top White House officials are working to secure an agreement between almost 50 countries to not pay ransom demands to cybercriminals as the international Counter

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31 Oct

Cybersecurity: Miscalculating Cyber Threats

Human beings are remarkable in their resilience. Beyond our ability to build and grow civilizations, we possess a somewhat less understood but equally important characteristic

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31 Oct

‘Mass exploitation’ of Citrix Bleed underway as ransomware crews pile in

Citrix Bleed, the critical information-disclosure bug that affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, is now under “mass exploitation,” as thousands of Citrix NetScaler instances remain

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31 Oct

Now Russians accused of pwning JFK taxi system to sell top spots to cabbies

For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John

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31 Oct

Ace holed: Hardware store empire felled by cyberattack

Ace Hardware appears to have been the latest organization to succumb to a cyberattack, judging by its website and a message from CEO John Venhuizen.

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31 Oct

Finance orgs have 30 days to confess cyber sins under incoming FTC rules

In the latter case, contact details for the law enforcement agency would need to be supplied also US law enforcement may seek to delay the

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31 Oct

Cybersecurity snafu sends British Library back to the Dark Ages

The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a “cyber incident” is the cause of a “major” multi-day IT outage. The social media mouthpiece

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31 Oct

Advances in Our Use of AI Keep You Even Safer Online

AI is on your side. In fact, it’s kept you safer online for some time now.  Now that scammers and hackers have gotten their hands

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31 Oct

UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals. Chris

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31 Oct

Closing the gender gap: 7 ways to attract more women into cybersecurity

We Live Progress Global Diversity Awareness Month is a timely occasion to reflect on the steps required to remove the obstacles to women’s participation in

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31 Oct

Meta’s ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing

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31 Oct

Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian

Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool. An advisory issued on October

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30 Oct

Florida man jailed after draining $1M from victims in crypto SIM swap attacks

A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole nearly $1 million in

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30 Oct

Unpatched NGINX ingress controller bugs can be abused to steal Kubernetes cluster secrets

Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters.  The vulnerabilities,

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