30 Jun

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer’s network following his

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30 Jun

Scattered Spider crime spree takes flight as focus turns to aviation sector

Just a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider’s tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now

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30 Jun

Sinaloa drug cartel hired a cybersnoop to identify and kill FBI informants

A major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back in 2018, telling the FBI that a cartel “hacker” was tracking a federal

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30 Jun

Your browser has ad tech’s fingerprints all over it, but there’s a clean-up squad in town

Opinion There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome’s Incognito Mode. Alongside its fellow travellers in other browsers offering Private Browsing and the like,

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30 Jun

Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP

Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations. Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly announced the order

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30 Jun

It’s 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators

Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted

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28 Jun

Ex-NATO hacker: ‘In the cyber world, there’s no such thing as a ceasefire’

interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won’t carry any weight in

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28 Jun

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – June 2025 edition

From Australia’s new ransomware payment disclosure rules to another record-breaking DDoS attack, June 2025 saw no shortage of interesting cybersecurity news 28 Jun 2025 It’s

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27 Jun

Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info

Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according

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27 Jun

Aloha, you’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’

update Hawaiian Airlines said a “cybersecurity incident” affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher

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27 Jun

Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI

Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and

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27 Jun

So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller

Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller. The

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27 Jun

Data spill in aisle 5: Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize says 2.2M affected after cyberattack

Multinational grocery and retail megacorp Ahold Delhaize says upwards of 2.2 million people had their data compromised during its November cyberattack with personal, financial and

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26 Jun

FBI used bitcoin wallet records to peg notorious IntelBroker as UK national

The notorious data thief known as IntelBroker allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to more than 40 victims worldwide and stole their data, costing them

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26 Jun

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency

Comment A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor

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26 Jun

Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine components

Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-20281

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26 Jun

Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack

A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable. The local authority has confirmed the attack

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26 Jun

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland’s decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores “chilling” – the UK supermarket chain says

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