14 Aug

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama

Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court’s creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a

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14 Aug

Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms

Italy’s digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal’s claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine. The miscreant, operating

Author rabih
14 Aug

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack

A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack. Stock in the

Author rabih
14 Aug

The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

Register debate series The UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each

Author rabih
13 Aug

Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts

Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the

Author rabih
13 Aug

Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago

Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a “better time” when this was all fields and kids respected

Author rabih
13 Aug

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters’ access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as “an excellent opportunity for policing.” Privacy

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13 Aug

Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor

Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK’s Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input. Andreessen, notable

Author rabih
13 Aug

Microsoft wares may be UK public sector’s only viable option

Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government’s money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year

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13 Aug

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version,

Author rabih
13 Aug

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version,

Author rabih
13 Aug

Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced

Author rabih
13 Aug

Crypto crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail. Kwon

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12 Aug

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday baker’s dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is

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12 Aug

Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data

Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise’s network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the

Author rabih
12 Aug

Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office blamed on ‘cyber incident’

The Pennsylvania’s Office of Attorney General (OAG) is blaming a digital blackout of its services on a “cyber incident.” The OAG posted a statement to

Author rabih
12 Aug

BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they’ve “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing millions of dollars

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12 Aug

Supply-chain dependencies: Check your resilience blind spot

Business Security Does your business truly understand its dependencies, and how to mitigate the risks posed by an attack on them? Tony Anscombe 12 Aug

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