03 Feb

Nothing to scoff at: Crisps and nuts biz KP Snacks smacked in ransomware hack attack

Some of Britain’s favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack. A

Author rabih
03 Feb

KP Snacks hit by ransomware: Crisps and nuts firm KO’d by modern scourge

Some of Britain’s favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack. A

Author rabih
03 Feb

Execs keep flinging money at us instead of understanding security, moan infosec pros

Fresh from years of complaining about underfunding and not having enough staff to deal with problems, infosec bods are now complaining that corporate execs merely

Author rabih
03 Feb

Welsh home improvement biz fined £200,000 over campaign of 675,478 nuisance calls

Home2Sense Ltd, a home improvement biz, is nursing a £200,000 financial penalty from the UK’s data watchdog for making well over half a million marketing

Author rabih
03 Feb

FBI says more cyber attacks come from China than everywhere else combined

US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray has named China as the source of more cyber-attacks on the USA than all other nations combined.

Author rabih
03 Feb

Privacy in Practice: Securing Your Data in 2022 and Beyond

Every year we can count on new technology to make our lives easier. Right? As beneficial and convenient as tech can be, it can also

Author rabih
03 Feb

Worried about occasional npm malware scares? It’s more common than you may think

Malware gets spotted in GitHub’s npm registry every few months, elevating concerns about the software supply chain until attention gets diverted and worries recede until

Author rabih
03 Feb

Worried about occasional npm malware scares? They’re more common than you may think

Malware gets spotted in GitHub’s npm registry every few months, elevating concerns about the software supply chain until attention gets diverted and worries recede until

Author rabih
02 Feb

Remote code execution vulnerability in Samba due to macOS interop module

Six months after LibreOffice 7.2, version 7.3 is out with faster and more accurate file importing and rendering for improved compatibility with Microsoft Office. The

Author rabih
02 Feb

UK think tank proposes Online Safety Bill reviewer to keep tabs on Ofcom decisions

Even think tanks with close links to the UK’s Conservative government are now criticising the Online Safety Bill, with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)

Author rabih
02 Feb

Shoulder surfing: Watch out for eagle‑eyed snoopers peeking at your phone

Some fraudsters may use low-tech tactics to steal your sensitive information – peering over your shoulder as you enter that data is one of them

Author rabih
02 Feb

DMCA-dot-com XSS vuln reported in 2020 still live today and firm has shrugged it off

There is a live cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in takedowns website DMCA-dot-com’s user interface. It’s existed for more than a year and the site’s operators

Author rabih
02 Feb

What are real organisations doing with zero trust?

Reg Reader Survey Like many concepts in cyber-security, Zero Trust (hereafter “ZT”) has come to prominence recently. The concept is reckoned to have first been

Author rabih
01 Feb

Ransomware means your database IS the front line. How are you defending it?

Webinar Databases are often thought of as, well, part of the back office of any organization. Yet just consider what would happen to a modern

Author rabih
01 Feb

Cyberattacker hits German service station petrol terminal provider

Two companies owned by Hamburg-based company fuel group Marquard & Bahls are battling cyberattackers, with loading and unloading systems at the German arm of petrol

Author rabih
01 Feb

Russia’s naval exercise near Ireland unlikely to involve cable-tapping shenanigans

A Russian naval exercise in the Atlantic, near several submarine cables between Britain, France and the US, is more likely to be sabre-rattling than an

Author rabih
31 Jan

Crypto outfit Qubit appeals to the honour of thieves who lifted $80M of its digi-dollars

Another week, another crypto upstart admitting its lax security has been exploited and parties unknown have made off with millions. But this time there’s a

Author rabih
28 Jan

It’s Data Privacy Day: Here’s How to Stay Protected in 2022

When you logged on to your computer this morning, data privacy probably wasn’t the first thing you were thinking about. The same goes for when

Author rabih
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