30 Dec

Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has found that local carrier Korea Telecom (KT) deployed thousands of badly secured femtocells, leading to an attack

Author rabih
29 Dec

Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims

Rogue insiders suspected of taking bribes to hand over Coinbase customer records to criminals are beginning to face justice, according to CEO Brian Armstrong. The

Author rabih
29 Dec

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online

A criminal group is beating Conde Nast over the head for not responding sooner to its extortion attempt by posting stolen subscribers’ email and home

Author rabih
29 Dec

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – December 2025 edition

As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the whole of this

Author rabih
29 Dec

Europe’s cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age

Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on

Author rabih
29 Dec

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence

Korean e-tailer Coupang claims a former employee has admitted to improperly accessing data describing 33 million of its customers, but says the accused deleted the

Author rabih
28 Dec

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025

The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic

Author rabih
26 Dec

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running

Author rabih
26 Dec

From video games to cyber defense: If you don’t think like a hacker, you won’t win

interview According to Remedio CEO Tal Kollender, the only way to beat the bad guys hacking into corporate networks is to “think like a hacker,”

Author rabih
24 Dec

Pen testers accused of ‘blackmail’ after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws

Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar’s public AI chatbot that, among other security issues, could allow an attacker to inject malicious

Author rabih
24 Dec

US shuts down phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform

The US says it has shut down a platform used by cybercriminals to break into Americans’ bank accounts. A law enforcement splash page now appears

Author rabih
24 Dec

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Microsoft wants to translate its codebase to Rust, and is hiring people to make it happen. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C

Author rabih
23 Dec

ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled ‘Buy security company, make it Armis’

After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy cybersecurity heavyweight Armis in a $7.75 billion deal that

Author rabih
23 Dec

21K Nissan customers’ data stolen in Red Hat raid

Thousands of Nissan customers are learning that some of their personal data was leaked after unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server, according to the

Author rabih
23 Dec

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug

Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update. The patches, released for Windows 10

Author rabih
23 Dec

A brush with online fraud: What are brushing scams and how do I stay safe?

Have you ever received a package you never ordered? It could be a warning sign that your data has been compromised, with more fraud to

Author rabih
22 Dec

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and

Author rabih
22 Dec

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

UPDATED A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol

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