18 Dec

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

Suspicions about the integrity of Huawei products among US government officials can be attributed in part to a 2012 incident involving a Huawei software update

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17 Dec

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday escalated its call to fix the Apache Log4j vulnerability with an emergency directive requiring

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17 Dec

RAF shoots down ‘terrorist drone’ over US-owned special ops base in Syria

The RAF has scored its first air-to-air “kill” – where an aircraft downs an enemy aircraft – for almost 40 years after shooting down a drone

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17 Dec

Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to patch

VMware customers have probably had a busy week because more than 100 of the IT giant’s products are impacted by the Log4j bug. Now they

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17 Dec

Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

Facebook successor Meta on Thursday said it canceled 1,500 social media accounts used by seven surveillance-for-hire firms to conduct online attacks against government critics and

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16 Dec

Privacy, Identity, and Device Protection: Why You Need to Invest in All Three

Cybercriminals make people uneasy about the safety of their identity and online accounts. McAfee is your partner who’ll work tirelessly to restore your confidence in your online activities. Check out this roundup of privacy protection, identity protection, and device security

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16 Dec

Why ransomware attacks happen out of hours or during the holidays

Paid Feature Time waits for no one. But ransomware attackers do. Increasingly, cybercriminals are timing their attacks, detonating them when their victims are out of

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16 Dec

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

British police have made a series of arrests over the past few months after people with apparent access to NHS databases allegedly sold fake vaccination

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16 Dec

Move fast, break security: Why CISOs must push back against Agile IT

Advertorial The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome

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16 Dec

National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov

The British government has launched a £2.6bn National Cyber Strategy, intended to steer the state’s thinking on cyber attack, defence and technology for the next

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16 Dec

Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data

Social media and search engine operators in Japan will be required to specify the countries in which users’ data is physically stored, under a planned

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16 Dec

Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard

Meta has expanded its bug bounty program to include payouts for reports of scraping attacks on Facebook – but hold your applause. The antisocial network

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15 Dec

As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others

Microsoft reckons government cyber-spies in China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are actively exploiting the Log4j 2.x remote-code execution hole. Up until now, it was

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15 Dec

US lawmakers want to put NSO Group, 3 other spyware makers out of business with fresh severe sanctions

Eighteen US Democratic lawmakers have asked the Treasury Department and State Department to punish Israel-based spyware maker NSO Group and three other surveillance software firms

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15 Dec

What every business leader needs to know about Log4Shell

Hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit the vulnerability are under way In many cases, updating IT systems and patching security vulnerabilities is a quiet

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15 Dec

Pen Test Partners: Anyone could view Gumtree users’ GPS location by pressing F12

UK online used goods bazaar Gumtree exposed its users’ home addresses in the source code of its webpages, and then tried to squirm out of

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15 Dec

Quizzes and Other Identity Theft Schemes to Avoid on Social Media

Before you take the fun-looking quiz that popped up in your social media feed, think twice. The person holding the answers may be a hacker.  Where people go, hackers are sure

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15 Dec

NIST Launches New International Cybersecurity and Privacy Resources Website

Credit: Shutterstock Every day, NIST cybersecurity and privacy resources are being used throughout the world to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy risks. To assist

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