03 Mar

Amazon Alexa can be hijacked via commands from own speaker

Without a critical update, Amazon Alexa devices could wake themselves up and start executing audio commands issued by a remote attacker, according to infosec researchers

Author rabih
03 Mar

Switzerland’s SWIFT data centre under guard after Russian banks excluded

A Swiss data centre operated by financial messaging service SWIFT is under guard by police following the exclusion of key Russian banks from the system.

Author rabih
03 Mar

Zero trust? Not yet a must for most IT departments

Reader survey results When we published the questions for this survey, our view was that zero trust, or ZT, has finally begun to become a

Author rabih
03 Mar

UK government starts public consultation on telco security

While the world watches Ukraine, the British government has quietly dropped a requirement for mass surveillance of UK internet users by their service providers. A

Author rabih
03 Mar

How Attack Path Modelling can help prevent your next cyber-attack

Webinar Your security teams have a tough job, overseeing a multitude of systems, controls and alerts to try to stop cyber attackers from penetrating corporate

Author rabih
03 Mar

CrowdStrike offers fully managed identity-threat-detection-as-a-service

CrowdStrike is bringing its identity threat prevention technology to its managed detection and response (MDR) service, giving enterprises a chance to blunt the growing threat

Author rabih
02 Mar

Details of ‘120,000 Russian soldiers’ leaked by Ukrainian media

Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda says the nation’s Centre for Defence Strategies think tank has obtained the personal details of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in

Author rabih
02 Mar

Details of ‘120,000 Russian soldiers’ leaked by Ukraine

Ukrainian news agency Ukrainska Pravda has claimed the nation’s Centre for Defence Strategies think tank has obtained the online personal details of 120,000 Russian servicemen

Author rabih
02 Mar

Conti ransomware gang’s source code leaked

Infamous ransomware group Conti is now the target of cyberattacks in the wake of its announcement late last week that it fully supports Russia’s ongoing

Author rabih
02 Mar

Conti ransomware group’s source code leaked

Infamous ransomware group Conti is now the target of cyberattacks in the wake of its announcement late last week that it fully supports Russia’s ongoing

Author rabih
02 Mar

EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II

The State of the Net conference in Washington, DC, has heard officials representing the EU and the US say they believe they are close to

Author rabih
02 Mar

The zero-password future can’t come soon enough

Passwords, long a weakness in the tapestry of defenses designed to keep enterprises and individuals more secure, continue to be a problem due in large

Author rabih
02 Mar

Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake processors will not include Microsoft’s Pluton security

Microsoft’s attempt to put its homegrown Pluton security processor architecture into third-party Windows 11 PCs is right now more work-in-progress than the slam dunk its

Author rabih
02 Mar

New flashpoint: US may ask Chinese tech firms to bin Russia

As big tech companies from the West swiftly and happily comply with new rules that prohibit interactions with Russia, Chinese companies will soon feel pressure

Author rabih
02 Mar

President Biden calls for ban on social media ads aimed at kids

United States president Joe Biden has used his first State of the Union speech to call for a ban on social networks serving ads targeted

Author rabih
01 Mar

Second data-wiping malware found in Ukraine, says ESET

The disk-wiping malware that tore through at least hundreds of Ukrainian Windows systems at the start of Russia’s occupation wasn’t alone. Slovakian infosec firm ESET

Author rabih
01 Mar

This JavaScript scanner hunts down malware in libraries

Socket, the biz behind the Wormhole file transfer web app, on Tuesday plans to introduce a security scanning app also called Socket to defend against

Author rabih
01 Mar

Insurance giant Aon confirms it has suffered ‘cyber incident’

Aon, the British-American provider of insurance and pension administration, has brought in external specialists to help probe a “cyber incident”. In addition to broader risk

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