17 May

Feds offer $10m reward for info on alleged Russian ransomware crim

The Feds have sanctioned a Russian national accused of using LockBit, Babuk, and Hive ransomware to extort a law enforcement agency and nonprofit healthcare organization

Author rabih
16 May

US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people

A US Department of Transportation computer system used to reimburse federal employees for commuting costs somehow suffered a security breach that exposed the personal info

Author rabih
16 May

Compliance automation to confound cyber criminals

Sponsored Post Eminent US businessman Norman Ralph Augustine – who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army, as well as chairman and CEO

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16 May

You may not care where you download software from, but malware does

Why do people still download files from sketchy places and get compromised as a result? One of the pieces of advice that security practitioners have

Author rabih
16 May

Cops crack gang that used bots to book and resell immigration appointments

Police have arrested 69 people alleged to have used bots to book up nearly all of Spain’s available appointments with immigration officials, and then sold

Author rabih
16 May

FTC sues VoIP provider over ‘billions of illegal robocalls’

A VoIP provider was at the heart of billions of robocalls made over the past five years that broke a slew of US regulations, from

Author rabih
15 May

Intel says Friday’s mystery ‘security update’ microcode isn’t really a security update

False alarm: despite a patch notes suggesting otherwise, that mysterious blob of microcode released for many Intel microprocessors last week was not a security update,

Author rabih
15 May

Extra! Extra! Don’t quite read all about it: Cyber attack hits Philadelphia Inquirer

A cyber “incident” stopped The Philadelphia Inquirer’s presses over the weekend, halting the Sunday edition’s print edition and shutting down the newspaper’s offices to staff

Author rabih
15 May

Some potential: How bad software updates could over-volt, brick remote servers

Video Presenting at Black Hat Asia 2023, two infosec researchers detailed how remote updates can be exploited to modify voltage on a Supermicro motherboard and

Author rabih
15 May

Artificial Imposters—Cybercriminals Turn to AI Voice Cloning for a New Breed of Scam

Three seconds of audio is all it takes.   Cybercriminals have taken up newly forged artificial intelligence (AI) voice cloning tools and created a new breed

Author rabih
15 May

Hackers remotely turn up the voltage on motherboards to brick servers

Presenting at Black Hat Asia 2023, an infosec researcher detailed how remote updates can be exploited to modify voltage on a Supermicro motherboard and remotely

Author rabih
15 May

Where Did I Leave My Phone?” Protecting Your Phone from Loss and Theft.

Maybe you know that sinking feeling all too well. “Where did I leave my phone?”  The minutes pass as you search around the house, then

Author rabih
15 May

Is My Child Being Cyberbullied Or Is It Just Banter?

If you were to ask me what I consider to be the most attractive attribute in a person, it would be kindness but only closely

Author rabih
15 May

No more macros? No problem, say miscreants, we’ll adapt

Microsoft’s decision to block internet-sourced macros by default last year is forcing attackers to find new and creative ways to compromise systems and deliver malware,

Author rabih
15 May

An important system on project [REDACTED] was all [REDACTED] up

Welcome once again to the horrors of Monday, dear reader. But fear not – The Register is here to cushion the blow of the working

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15 May

Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up

Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often

Author rabih
15 May

Arm acknowledges side-channel attack but denies Cortex-M is crocked

Black Hat Asia Arm issued a statement last Friday declaring that a successful side attack on its TrustZone-enabled Cortex-M based systems was “not a failure

Author rabih
15 May

Toyota’s bungling of customer privacy is becoming a pattern

in brief Japanese automaker Toyota has admitted yet again to mishandling customer data – this time saying it exposed information on more than two million

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