13 Feb

3 Signs You May Be Caught in a Cryptocurrency Romance Scam

Swiping right is like a box of Valentine’s Day chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get. You could land with a ghost, a

Author rabih
13 Feb

LockBit’s Royal Mail ransom deadline flies by. No data released

in brief The notorious LockBit ransomware gang has taken credit for an attack on the Royal Mail – but a deadline it gave for payment

Author rabih
13 Feb

Confident cybersecurity means fewer headaches for SMBs

Small and medium-sized businesses have good reason to be concerned about the loss of data and financial impacts While tech advancements have enabled small and

Author rabih
13 Feb

Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it’s wrong

Who, Me? Ah, gentle reader, welcome back once again to the comfortable backwater of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers’ tales of

Author rabih
13 Feb

China’s spy balloon barrage earns six of its companies a spot on US entity list

The US Department of Commerce added six more entities to its blacklist on Friday on grounds of national security after an errant Chinese surveillance balloon

Author rabih
12 Feb

Why You Need to Watch Out When Using Public Wi-Fi

If you’re like most people, you like to stay connected whether you are traveling or just on the go. That’s why it can be tempting

Author rabih
11 Feb

Ransomware crooks steal 3m+ patients’ medical records, personal info

Several California medical groups have sent security breach notification letters to more than three million patients alerting them that crooks may have stolen a ton

Author rabih
10 Feb

US, UK slap sanctions on Russians linked to Conti, Ryuk, Trickbot malware

The US and UK have sanctioned seven Russians for their alleged roles in disseminating Conti and Ryuk ransomware and the Trickbot banking trojan. The move

Author rabih
10 Feb

US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers

The Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted across the US last week looks set to spark a new round of sanctions against Middle Kingdom tech firms.

Author rabih
10 Feb

Australia gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

Australia’s Defence Department removed all Chinese manufactured surveillance cameras after an audit detailed the number of Hikvision and Dahua devices installed in various government facilities.

Author rabih
10 Feb

Australian government gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

Australia’s Defence Department removed all Chinese manufactured surveillance cameras after an audit detailed the number of Hikvision and Dahua devices installed in various government facilities.

Author rabih
10 Feb

Romance scammers’ favorite lies cost victims $1.3B last year

As Valentine’s Day approaches, if your offshore oil rig worker “boyfriend” – who looks like Bradley Cooper in his online pics and has hinted at

Author rabih
10 Feb

Reddit reveals security incident that looks more SNAFU than TIFU

Colourful web forum Reddit has revealed it has suffered a security breach. In a post titled We had a security incident. Here’s what we know

Author rabih
09 Feb

Codebreakers decipher Mary, Queen of Scots’ secret letters 436 years after her execution

A team of codebreakers discovered – and then cracked – more than 50 secret letters written by Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned

Author rabih
09 Feb

Uncle Sam wants to strip the IoS out of IoT with light crypto

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to protect all devices great and small, and is getting closer to settling on next-gen cryptographic

Author rabih
08 Feb

Among the thousands of ESXiArgs ransomware victims? FBI and CISA to the rescue

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a recovery script to help companies whose servers were scrambled in the recent ESXiArgs ransomware

Author rabih
08 Feb

Among the thousands of ESXiArgs ransomware victim orgs? FBI and CISA to the rescue

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a recovery script to help companies whose servers were scrambled in the recent ESXiArgs ransomware

Author rabih
08 Feb

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Ahad Shams, the co-founder of Web3 metaverse gaming engine startup Webaverse, discovered in late November 2022 that someone had stolen $4 million of his cryptocurrency

Author rabih
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