02 Nov

Ritz cracker giant settles bust-up with insurer over $100m+ NotPetya cleanup

Mondelez International has settled its lawsuit against Zurich American Insurance Company, which it brought because the insurer refused to cover the snack giant’s $100-million-plus cleanup

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01 Nov

Dropbox admits 130 of its private GitHub repos were copied after phishing attack

Dropbox has said it was successfully phished, resulting in someone copying 130 of its private GitHub code repositories and swiping some of its secret API

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01 Nov

OpenSSL downgrades horror bug after week of panic, hype

OpenSSL today issued a fix for a critical-turned-high-severity vulnerability that project maintainers warned about last week.  After days of speculation, infosec professionals and armchair bug

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01 Nov

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister… who is reappointed anyway

The UK’s Home Secretary – the minister in charge of policing and internal security – has been forced to apologize for breaching IT security protocols

Author rabih
01 Nov

Kioxia warns of potential cost of US chip policy over China

Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply

Author rabih
01 Nov

Kioxia warns Uncle Sam: Be careful what you wish for with China sanctions

Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply

Author rabih
01 Nov

The Worst Black Friday and Cyber Monday Scams – And How to Avoid Them

On Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the deals roll out. So do some of the worst Black Friday and Cyber Monday scams.  Hackers, scammers, and

Author rabih
01 Nov

German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk

A 22-year-old student German federal police believe to be the administrator of one of the largest German-speaking, dark-web forums has been arrested.  The man, whose

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01 Nov

Unofficial fix emerges for Windows bug abused to infect home PCs with ransomware

A cybersecurity firm has issued another unofficial patch to squash a bug in Windows that Microsoft has yet to fix, with this hole being actively

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01 Nov

India’s Home Ministry cracks down on predatory lending apps following suicides

India’s Home Ministry has asked state governments to crack down on illegal lending apps it says have led to “multiple suicides by citizens owing to

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31 Oct

Education tech giant gets an F for security after sensitive info on 40 million users stolen

Sloppy data security at education tech giant Chegg exposed students and workers’ personal information not once but four times in various ways over four years,

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31 Oct

The White House’s global ransomware summit couldn’t come at a better time

The White House has begun its second annual International Counter Ransomware Summit in which Biden administration officials will convene with representatives of three dozen nations,

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31 Oct

Ordinary web access request or command to malware?

A threat group that targets corporate emails is delivering dropper malware through a novel technique that uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs to send

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31 Oct

Apple patches actively exploited iPhone, iPad kernel vulns

In brief Apple has patched an iOS and iPad OS vulnerability that’s already been exploited. Crediting an anonymous security researcher with reporting the issue, Apple

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31 Oct

Singapore hosts ICS/OT cybersecurity training extravaganza

Sponsored Post Cybercriminals generally respect no limits or boundaries, but there is evidence to suggest that they are singling out industrial control systems (ICS) and

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30 Oct

Indian government creates body with power to order social media content takedowns

Asia In Brief India’s government has given itself the power to compel social networks to take down content. Amendments to the nation’s Information Technology Rules

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28 Oct

This Windows worm evolved into slinging ransomware. Here’s how to detect it

Raspberry Robin, a worm that spreads through Windows systems via USB drives, has rapidly evolved: now backdoor access is being sold or offered to infected

Author rabih
28 Oct

Federal bans aren’t stopping US states from buying forbidden Chinese kit

Only a “handful” of US states have stopped buying Chinese technologies deemed by the government to pose security threats, according to a report from a

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