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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

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