15 Jun

Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain

Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US

Author rabih
13 Jun

Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being

Author rabih
13 Jun

Do you trust Xi with your ‘private’ browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Both Apple’s and Google’s online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project,

Author rabih
13 Jun

Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon’s Graphite spyware. The infections

Author rabih
13 Jun

Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years’ experience and a PhD

Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment

Author rabih
13 Jun

Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their

Author rabih
12 Jun

Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks

Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management

Author rabih
12 Jun

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Cybersecurity Workforce

Credit: NICE The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) was revised in November 2020 as NIST Special Publication 800-181 rev.1 to enable more effective

Author rabih
12 Jun

‘Major compromise’ at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes

Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK’s NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never

Author rabih
11 Jun

DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out

Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called “BrowserVenom”. The malware’s name reflects

Author rabih
11 Jun

Hire me! To drop malware on your computer

In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters –

Author rabih
11 Jun

Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks

Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access

Author rabih
11 Jun

Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown

Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime. Interpol released details

Author rabih
11 Jun

Analysis to action: Operationalizing your threat intelligence

Partner content When a new security advisory drops or an alarming new ransomware campaign makes the news, the question from leadership inevitably follows: “Are we

Author rabih
11 Jun

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a ‘compatibility issue’

Microsoft has set a new record with June’s security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage. The patch Tuesday update arrived

Author rabih
11 Jun

CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming

Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure,

Author rabih
10 Jun

Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday, and two are under active attack

Patch Tuesday It’s Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out – and two

Author rabih
10 Jun

Texas warns 300,000 crash reports siphoned via compromised user account

The Texas Department of Transportation says a compromised user account was used to improperly download nearly 300,000 crash reports, exposing personal data that could be

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