29 Dec

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence

Korean e-tailer Coupang claims a former employee has admitted to improperly accessing data describing 33 million of its customers, but says the accused deleted the

Author rabih
28 Dec

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025

The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic

Author rabih
26 Dec

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running

Author rabih
26 Dec

From video games to cyber defense: If you don’t think like a hacker, you won’t win

interview According to Remedio CEO Tal Kollender, the only way to beat the bad guys hacking into corporate networks is to “think like a hacker,”

Author rabih
24 Dec

Pen testers accused of ‘blackmail’ after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws

Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar’s public AI chatbot that, among other security issues, could allow an attacker to inject malicious

Author rabih
24 Dec

US shuts down phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform

The US says it has shut down a platform used by cybercriminals to break into Americans’ bank accounts. A law enforcement splash page now appears

Author rabih
24 Dec

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Microsoft wants to translate its codebase to Rust, and is hiring people to make it happen. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C

Author rabih
23 Dec

ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled ‘Buy security company, make it Armis’

After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy cybersecurity heavyweight Armis in a $7.75 billion deal that

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23 Dec

21K Nissan customers’ data stolen in Red Hat raid

Thousands of Nissan customers are learning that some of their personal data was leaked after unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server, according to the

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23 Dec

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update. The patches, released for Windows 10

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23 Dec

A brush with online fraud: What are brushing scams and how do I stay safe?

Have you ever received a package you never ordered? It could be a warning sign that your data has been compromised, with more fraud to

Author rabih
22 Dec

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and

Author rabih
22 Dec

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

UPDATED A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol

Author rabih
22 Dec

Palo Alto’s new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs

Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move “key internal workloads” onto the Chocolate Factory’s infrastructure. The outfit

Author rabih
22 Dec

Spy turned startup CEO: ‘The WannaCry of AI will happen’

Interview “In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day,” Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said. She’s talking

Author rabih
22 Dec

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

What would happen to the world’s music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of

Author rabih
22 Dec

Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest

Author rabih
22 Dec

Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency

Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still

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