13 Feb

Gaming or gambling? Lifting the lid on in-game loot boxes

Kids Online The virtual treasure chests and other casino-like rewards inside your children’s games may pose risks you shouldn’t play down 13 Feb 2025  • 

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13 Feb

Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You’re not alone

Administrators of Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls have complained the equipment falls over unexpectedly, and while a fix has bee prepared, it’s not yet generally available.

Author rabih
13 Feb

Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing ‘sh*tty behavior’ and onerous support requests

Troy Hunt, proprietor of data breach lookup site Have I Been Pwned, is likely to ban resellers from the service. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)

Author rabih
13 Feb

Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing ‘shitty behavior’ and onerous support requests

Troy Hunt, proprietor of data breach lookup site Have I Been Pwned, is likely to ban resellers from the service. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)

Author rabih
13 Feb

Feds want devs to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulnerabilities

US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware,

Author rabih
13 Feb

The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns

US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware,

Author rabih
13 Feb

Sophos sheds 6% of staff after swallowing Secureworks

Nine days after completing its $859 million acquisition of managed detection and response provider Secureworks, Sophos has laid off around six percent of its staff.

Author rabih
12 Feb

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

President Trump has reportedly chosen a candidate for National Cyber Director — another top tech appointee with no professional experience in that role. Citing non-public

Author rabih
12 Feb

Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

An Arizona woman who created a “laptop farm” in her home to help fake IT workers pose as US-based employees has pleaded guilty in a

Author rabih
12 Feb

Ransomware isn’t always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too

Feature Ransomware gangsters and state-sponsored online spies fall on opposite ends of the cyber-crime spectrum. The former move fast, make a lot of noise, and

Author rabih
12 Feb

Russia’s Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

An initial-access subgroup of Russia’s Sandworm last year wriggled its way into networks within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, stealing credentials and data from

Author rabih
12 Feb

Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google

Google says the the world’s lawmakers must take action against the increasing links between criminal and state-sponsored cyber activity. In a fresh report published today,

Author rabih
12 Feb

What is penetration testing? | Unlocked 403 cybersecurity podcast (ep. 10)

Ever wondered what it’s like to hack for a living – legally? Learn about the art and thrill of ethical hacking and how white-hat hackers

Author rabih
12 Feb

February’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s February patch collection is mercifully smaller than January’s mega-dump. But don’t get too relaxed – some deserve close attention, and other vendors

Author rabih
11 Feb

Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift

Despite the escalating cyber threats targeting America’s maritime transportation system, the US Coast Guard still lacks a comprehensive strategy to secure this critical infrastructure –

Author rabih
11 Feb

Yup, AMD’s Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

Cisco is cramming into more of its switches Pensando data processing units (DPUs) from AMD, which will be dedicated to handling security, storage, and other

Author rabih
11 Feb

‘Key kernel maintainers’ still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

The Rust for Linux project is alive and well, despite suggestions to the contrary, even if not every Linux kernel maintainer is an ally. On

Author rabih
11 Feb

Triplestrength hits victims with triple trouble: Ransomware, cloud hijacks, crypto-mining

A previously unknown gang dubbed Triplestrength poses a triple threat to organizations: It infects victims’ computers with ransomware, then hijacks their cloud accounts to illegally

Author rabih
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