06 Jan

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident – unlike Volkswagen,

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04 Jan

Encryption backdoor debate ‘done and dusted,’ former White House tech advisor says

interview In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America’s history, the

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04 Jan

Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’

French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew,

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03 Jan

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

Though the same couldn’t be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA

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03 Jan

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust

Computer scientists affiliated with France’s Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in

Author rabih
03 Jan

Gary Marcus – Taming Silicon Valley | Starmus Highlights

We Live Science The prominent AI researcher explores the societal impact of artificial intelligence and calls for a reimagined approach to AI development that avoids

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02 Jan

Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions intel in US Treasury raid

Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department’s workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals. On

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02 Jan

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in

AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed portions of their systems earlier this year, while the White House added another, yet-unnamed

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02 Jan

Apple offers to settle ‘snooping Siri’ lawsuit for an utterly incredible $95M

Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and

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02 Jan

Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M

Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and

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01 Jan

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do

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01 Jan

US Army soldier who allegedly stole Trump’s AT&T call logs arrested

A US Army soldier has been arrested in Texas after being indicted on two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records information.  While the

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31 Dec

US Treasury Department outs the blast radius of BeyondTrust’s key leak

The US Department of the Treasury has admitted that miscreants were in its systems, accessing documents in what has been called a “major incident.” A

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31 Dec

China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024

The Chinese government’s intrusions into America’s telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks this year appears to signal a shift from cyberspying as usual to prepping

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30 Dec

More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in

AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed portions of their systems earlier this year, while the White House added another, yet-unnamed

Author rabih
29 Dec

It’s only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

Interview Now that criminals have realized there’s no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes – it’s much cheaper and easier to

Author rabih
28 Dec

How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub’s meteoric rise

RansomHub, the ransomware collective that emerged earlier this year, quickly gained momentum, outpacing its criminal colleagues and hitting its victims especially hard. The group named

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27 Dec

Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

The trickle of known issues with Windows 11 24H2 has continued with a new one just in time for festive season: installed the operating system

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