06 Jul

The rising risk of eavesdropping

Webinar There is a folk tale of a woman, who on being told a secret burned to tell someone what she had heard. Believing that

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06 Jul

LockBit louts unload ransomware at Japan’s most prolific cargo port

The port of Nagoya – which shifted 2.68 million shipping containers and 164 million tons of cargo in 2022 – has moved precious few in

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06 Jul

North Korean satellite had no military utility for spying, says South Korea

A North Korean satellite allegedly designed for reconnaissance was not viable for its alleged intended purpose, according to South Korea’s military on Wednesday. North Korea

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06 Jul

Former boss who stole $10M from Amazon using fake vendor invoices is jailed for 16 years

A former Amazon manager described by prosecutors as the “mastermind” behind a nearly $10 million scheme to steal money from the online megaretailer using fake

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05 Jul

RAM-ramming Rowhammer is back – to uniquely fingerprint devices

Boffins at the University of California, Davis have devised a purportedly practical way to apply a memory abuse technique called Rowhammer to build unique, stable

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05 Jul

Suspected bank-infecting OPERA1ER crime boss cuffed

International cops have arrested a suspected “key figure” of a cybercrime group dubbed OPERA1ER that has stolen as much as $30 million from more than

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05 Jul

Singapore tells crypto operators: act like grown up financial institutions

Singapore has joined the ranks of nations requiring digital payment operators to follow the same sort of regulations and customer protection requirements that apply to

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04 Jul

Deepfaking it: What to know about deepfake‑driven sextortion schemes

Criminals increasingly create deepfake nudes from people’s benign public photos in order to extort money from them, the FBI warns The U.S. Federal Bureau of

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04 Jul

Undiplomatic Chinese threat actor attacks embassies and foreign affairs departments

Infosec outfit Checkpoint says it’s spotted a Chinese actor targeting diplomatic facilities around Europe. Checkpoint has dubbed the campaign “SmugX” thanks to its use of

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03 Jul

You’ve patched right? ‘340K+ Fortinet firewalls’ wide open to critical security bug

More than 338,000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical bug Fortinet fixed last month that’s being exploited in the wild.

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03 Jul

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade

America’s Transportation Security Agency (TSA) intends to expand its facial-recognition program used to screen US air travel passengers to 430 domestic airports in under a

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03 Jul

Dublin Airport staff pay data ‘compromised’ by criminals

It’s an awkward Monday for Dublin Airport after pay and benefits details for some 2,000 staff were apparently “compromised” following a recent attack on professional

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03 Jul

Verizon 2023 DBIR: what’s new this year and top takeaways for SMBs

Here are some of the key insights on the evolving data breach landscape as revealed by Verizon’s analysis of more than 16,000 incidents Contrary to

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03 Jul

US authorities warn on China’s new counter-espionage law

The United States’ National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has warned that China’s updated Counter-Espionage law – which came into effect on July 1 –

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03 Jul

Japan rebukes Fujitsu for cloud security fails

Asia In Brief Japan’s government last Friday rebuked Fujitsu for shabby cloud security. Fujitsu operates a cloud called “FENICS” and in February 2023 admitted that

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30 Jun

Us, hacked by LockBit? No, says TSMC, that would be our IT supplier

Following claims by ransomware gang LockBit that it has stolen data belonging to TSMC, the chip-making giant has said it was in fact one of

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30 Jun

Cops told: Er, no, you need a wiretap order if you want real-time Facebook snooping

New Jersey cops must apply for a wiretap order — not just a warrant — for near-continual snooping on suspects’ Facebook accounts, according to a

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30 Jun

Be Mindful of These 3 AI Tricks on World Social Media Day

Happy World Social Media Day! Today’s a day about celebrating the life-long friendships you’ve made thanks to social media. Social media was invented to help

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