16 Apr

Law firm ‘didn’t think’ data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it’s nursing a £60K fine

A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK’s data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.

Author rabih
16 Apr

Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite

Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware

Author rabih
16 Apr

They’re coming for your data: What are infostealers and how do I stay safe?

Here’s what to know about malware that raids email accounts, web browsers, crypto wallets, and more – all in a quest for your sensitive data

Author rabih
16 Apr

Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find ‘insurance’ ‘policy’ in your files

Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands

Author rabih
16 Apr

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

US government funding for the world’s CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday. The 25-year-old

Author rabih
15 Apr

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it

Author rabih
15 Apr

4chan, the ‘internet’s litter box,’ appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with

Author rabih
15 Apr

China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks

China’s state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025

Author rabih
15 Apr

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK’d judge

A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk’s Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment

Author rabih
15 Apr

Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week

A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China’s Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that’s “even

Author rabih
15 Apr

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?

Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt. The change replaces

Author rabih
15 Apr

Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks

Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year. A breach

Author rabih
15 Apr

EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits

The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.

Author rabih
14 Apr

Don’t delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Canny Windows users who’ve spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week’s security patches for the operating system can rest assured –

Author rabih
14 Apr

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new

Author rabih
14 Apr

New SSL/TLS cert to live no longer than 47 days by 2029

CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new

Author rabih
14 Apr

Cyber congressman demands answers before CISA gets cut down to size

As drastic cuts to the US govt’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency loom, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA), the ranking member of the House’s cybersecurity subcommittee,

Author rabih
14 Apr

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it’s horrifying

Opinion The UK government’s attempts to worm into Apple’s core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country’s Home Office failed in its

Author rabih
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