06 Dec

International identity thieves arrested in IRS tax refund scam

Four men have been arrested on wire fraud and identity theft charges, and now face extradition to the US for their alleged roles in a

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05 Dec

Gunfire at electrical grid kills power for 45,000 in North Carolina

Officials in Moore County, North Carolina, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after gunfire damaged an electrical substation and left 45,000 homes and businesses

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05 Dec

Google warns stolen Android keys used to sign info-stealing malware

Compromised Android platform certificate keys from device makers including Samsung, LG and Mediatek are being used to sign malware and deploy spyware, among other software

Author rabih
05 Dec

Tractors vs. threat actors: How to hack a farm

Forget pests for a minute. Modern farms also face another – and more insidious – breed of threat. While I was in the UK police

Author rabih
05 Dec

BeReal – The Newest Kid On The Social Media Block

Without doubt, the biggest criticism we all have of social media is that everyone always looks fabulous! And while we all know that everyone is

Author rabih
05 Dec

Securing Application Identities in 2023

Webinar Just as Frank Sinatra sang in days gone by, ‘love and marriage’ goes together like a ‘horse and carriage,’ there should be no question

Author rabih
05 Dec

Remuneration coming for TrustCor customers impacted by CA revocation

In brief Certificate Authority TrustCor responded to its ejection from Mozilla and Microsoft’s browsers by offering refunds for some customers, while leaving others to pick

Author rabih
05 Dec

Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines

Rackspace has not offered any explanation of the “security incident” that has taken out its hosted Exchange environment and led the company to predict multiple

Author rabih
03 Dec

Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services

Updated Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”. The company’s most

Author rabih
03 Dec

Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out some hosted Exchange services

Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”. The company’s most recent

Author rabih
03 Dec

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Scams

This time of year, the air not only gets chillier but a bit cheerier for everyone … including online scammers. Holiday scams are a quick

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03 Dec

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that’ll fly the unfriendly skies

In Palmdale, California on Friday, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden revealed a US Air Force warplane that had only been shown in artist renderings and

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02 Dec

Medibank prognosis gets worse after more stolen data leaked

Australian health insurer Medibank’s prognosis following an October data breach keeps getting worse as criminals dumped another batch of stolen customer data on the dark

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02 Dec

FBI warns about Cuba, no, not that one — the ransomware gang

The US government has issued an alert about Cuba; not the state but a ransomware gang that’s taking millions in purloined profits. The Cuba gang

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02 Dec

Domain aging gang CashRewindo picks vintage sites to push malvertising

A sophisticated and very patient threat group behind a global malvertising scheme is using so-called aged domains to skirt past cybersecurity tools and catch victims

Author rabih
02 Dec

How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data

Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around the dinner table, data breaches

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02 Dec

Mozilla, Microsoft drop TrustCor as root certificate authority

Mozilla and Microsoft have taken action against a certificate authority accused of having close ties to a US military contractor that allegedly paid software developers

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02 Dec

Two signs in the comms cabinet said ‘Do not unplug’. Guess what happened

Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register‘s weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have

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