22 May

Instagram Safety for Kids: Protecting Privacy and Avoiding Risks

If you’re a parent of a teen, there’s a good chance that Instagram is the culprit behind a good chunk of their screen time. However,

Author rabih
22 May

Diligent developer courageously lied about exec’s NSFW printouts – and survived long enough to quit with dignity

Who, Me? Wait? What? Is it Monday already? Not to fear, gentle readerfolk, for Uncle Reg is here with another instalment of Who, Me? –

Author rabih
20 May

5 Minute Parent’s Guide to Social Media

The time has come. Your kids are chafing at the bit to get on social media and you can no longer hold them back. But

Author rabih
19 May

Teen in court after ‘$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers’

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged with allegedly playing a central role in the theft of $600,000 from DraftKings customer accounts. Joseph Garrison –

Author rabih
19 May

Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites

A Russian IT worker accused of participating in pro-Ukraine denial of service attacks against Russian government websites has been sentenced to three years in a

Author rabih
19 May

UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Professor Fraser Sampson has warned that independent oversight of facial recognition is at risk just as the policing minister plans

Author rabih
19 May

Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

Apple has issued a bushel of security updates and warned that three of the flaws it’s fixed are under active attack. The three are CVE-2023-32409,

Author rabih
18 May

Cisco squashes critical bugs in small biz switches

Cisco rolled out patches for four critical security vulnerabilities in several of its network switches for small businesses that can be exploited to remotely hijack

Author rabih
18 May

Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use

Microsoft wants to take the decision of which multi-factor authentication (MFA) method to use out of the users’ hands and into its own. The software

Author rabih
18 May

5 useful search engines for internet‑connected devices and services

A roundup of some of the handiest tools that security professionals can use to search for and monitor devices that are accessible from the internet

Author rabih
18 May

Steer Clear of Rip-offs: Top Tips for Safer Online Shopping

Everyone loves a great deal when they shop online. Until they discover it’s a rip-off.  Social media ads for vintage wear. Website ads for home

Author rabih
18 May

Six million patients’ data feared stolen from PharMerica

PharMerica, one of the largest pharmacy service providers in the US, has revealed its IT systems were breached last month – and it’s feared the

Author rabih
17 May

‘Strictly limit’ remote desktop – unless you like catching BianLian ransomware

The FBI and friends have warned organizations to “strictly limit the use of RDP and other remote desktop services” to avoid BianLian infections and the

Author rabih
17 May

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Capita is facing criticism about its security hygiene on a new front after an Amazon bucket containing benefits data on residents in a south east

Author rabih
17 May

Meet “AI”, your new colleague: could it expose your company’s secrets?

Before rushing to embrace the LLM-powered “hire”, make sure your organization has safeguards in place to avoid putting its business and customer data at risk

Author rabih
17 May

Don’t panic. Google offering scary .zip and .mov domains is not the end of the world

Comment In early May, Google Domains added support for eight new top-level domains, two of which – .zip, and .mov – raised the hackles of

Author rabih
17 May

Upstart encryption app walks back privacy claims, pulls from stores after probe

A new-ish messaging service that claims to put users’ privacy first has changed its tune – and the end-to-end encryption claims on its website –

Author rabih
17 May

Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

Business is very good for affiliates of the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group, which is very bad for the rest of us. Researchers with cybersecurity firm

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