02 Apr

Crimelords at Hunters International told lackeys ransomware now too ‘risky’

Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become “unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,” and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent

Author rabih
02 Apr

Oracle’s masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat

Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance

Author rabih
02 Apr

Don’t let cyberattacks keep you down

Sponsored Post It’s not a question of if your organization gets hit by a cyberattack – only when, and how quickly it recovers. Even small

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02 Apr

For healthcare orgs, disaster recovery means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infection

When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations – and criminals know it. We’re not exaggerating the

Author rabih
02 Apr

Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence

Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches. Floridian Michael Toikach is the named plaintiff in law

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02 Apr

One of the last of Bletchley Park’s quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101

Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War, has died at the

Author rabih
02 Apr

Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the

Author rabih
02 Apr

North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers

North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers. The hermit kingdom (DPRK) runs a corps of operatives who apply

Author rabih
02 Apr

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail

Author rabih
01 Apr

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows

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01 Apr

Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it’ll do so without

Author rabih
01 Apr

UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

The UK’s technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government’s Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000

Author rabih
01 Apr

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

A student at Britain’s top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial. Hasaan Arshad,

Author rabih
01 Apr

CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw

Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity

Author rabih
31 Mar

Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes

A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last

Author rabih
31 Mar

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed

Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly

Author rabih
31 Mar

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes

Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly

Author rabih
31 Mar

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud’s security breach denial

Oracle Cloud’s denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider’s login servers

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