17 Sep

Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here’s a study into it

Boffins at the University of Michigan in the US and Zhejiang University in China want to highlight how bespectacled video conferencing participants are inadvertently revealing

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16 Sep

School chat app Seesaw abused to send ‘inappropriate image’ to parents, teachers

Parents and teachers received a link to an “inappropriate image” this week via Seesaw after miscreants hijacked accounts in a credential stuffing attack against the

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16 Sep

Deadly Digital Dares: The Blackout Challenge on TikTok

The social network TikTok is chockfull of interesting, fun, laugh-out-loud videos shared by creators worldwide. Kids, as well as parents, can easily spend hours glued

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16 Sep

Turbo boost your career in cyber security

Sponsored Post Few segments of the IT industry change as quickly, or as often, as cyber security. But the perpetual, fast evolving battle to outwit

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16 Sep

Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack

Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that

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16 Sep

China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns

The Biden-nominated chief of space operations for the USA’s Space Force (USSF) rates China his greatest challenge, as the Middle Kingdom has developed technologies to

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16 Sep

Uber reels from ‘security incident’ in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked

Uber is tonight reeling from what looks like a substantial cybersecurity breach. The food delivery and ride sharing disruptor has admitted that something is up,

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15 Sep

Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft

A former Broadcom engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing his ex-employer’s trade secrets has asked the court not to give him prison time, saying he

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15 Sep

Building the barricades against identity-based attacks

Webinar The first six months of this year have been characterized by relentless cyber security attacks whether state-induced (Russia’s attacks on Ukraine), or incidents of

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15 Sep

Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back

The US has issued indictments against three Iranians linked to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their alleged roles in plotting ransomware attacks

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15 Sep

WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack

It’s only been a week or so, and obviously there are at least three critical holes in WordPress plugins and tools that are being exploited

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14 Sep

White House to tech world: Promise you’ll write secure code – or Feds won’t use it

The White House has published software security rules for federal agencies as part of a larger push to shore up America’s IT supply chains. Today’s

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14 Sep

Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears

About 40 percent of industry professionals say their organizations have reduced their usage of open source software due to concerns about security, according to a

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14 Sep

Fake Security App Found Abuses Japanese Payment System

McAfee’s Mobile Research team recently analyzed new malware targeting NTT DOCOMO users in Japan. The malware which was distributed on the Google Play store pretends

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14 Sep

Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has issued two large fines for privacy violations: a $50 million penalty for Google and $22 million for

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14 Sep

Ransomware gang threatens 1m-plus medical record leak

Two recent ransomware attacks against healthcare systems indicate cybercriminals continue to put medical clinics and hospitals firmly in their crosshairs. Daixin Team has taken credit

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14 Sep

Twitter whistleblower Zatko disses bird site as dysfunctional data dump

Twitter’s former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko on Tuesday told the US Senate Judiciary Committee that the social media company’s lax data handling and

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13 Sep

Microsoft fixes Windows security hole likely widely exploited by miscreants

Patch Tuesday September’s Patch Tuesday is here and it brings, among other things, fixes from Microsoft for one security bug that miscreants have used to

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