09 Jan

I tried hard, but didn’t fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director

The outgoing leader of the United States’ Office of the National Cyber Director has a clear message for whomever President-elect Trump picks to be his

Author rabih
09 Jan

Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers’ personal data – including some Social

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08 Jan

Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bug under active exploit

Cybercriminals are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab, including a zero-day flaw – and a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server

Author rabih
08 Jan

DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research

Argentine cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research. The iSeq 100, developed by

Author rabih
08 Jan

UN’s aviation agency confirms attack on recruitment database

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations’ aviation agency, has confirmed to The Register that a cyber crim did indeed steal 42,000 records

Author rabih
08 Jan

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these

Author rabih
08 Jan

Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing

Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it’s finding it hard to do business in the Middle

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08 Jan

FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund ‘Rip’n’Replace’ of Chinese kit

The outgoing boss of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, has called on her colleagues to “quickly” adopt rules allowing the US regulator to stage a radio

Author rabih
07 Jan

Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins

The United Nations’ aviation agency is investigating “a potential information security incident” after a cybercriminal claimed they had laid hands on 42,000 of the branch’s

Author rabih
07 Jan

DEF CON’s hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

Marc Rogers, DEF CON’s head of security, faces tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills following an accident that left him with a broken

Author rabih
07 Jan

State-aligned APT groups are increasingly deploying ransomware – and that’s bad news for everyone

Business Security The blurring of lines between cybercrime and state-sponsored attacks underscores the increasingly fluid and multifaceted nature of today’s cyberthreats Phil Muncaster 07 Jan

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07 Jan

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

The US Department of Defense has added Chinese messaging and gaming Tencent to its list of “Chinese military company”, a designation that won’t necessarily result

Author rabih
06 Jan

Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China’s Salt Typhoon victim list

The list of telecommunications victims in the Salt Typhoon cyberattack continues to grow as a new report names Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream among

Author rabih
06 Jan

FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices

Android malware dubbed FireScam tricks people into thinking they are downloading a Telegram Premium application that stealthily monitors victims’ notifications, text messages, and app activity,

Author rabih
06 Jan

MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns

MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution

Author rabih
06 Jan

AI moves to your PC with its own special hardware

Digital Security Seeking to keep sensitive data private and accelerate AI workloads? Look no further than AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors with

Author rabih
06 Jan

After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and

Author rabih
06 Jan

Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables

Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable. Local media reports, and the Financial Times report that

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