Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices
Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'
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SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack
Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 9
Bug bounty hunters load up to stalk AI and fancy bagging big bucks
Google offers AI-specific rewards, HackerOne sees more specializations
Cybersecurity Month27 Oct 2023 | 1
Telcos should compensate phished subscribers, suggests Singapore
Regulator reckons letting scam texts through is a culpable act
Cybersecurity Month26 Oct 2023 | 6
Seiko watches 60K personal data records tick away in BlackCat ransomware heist
Investigations ongoing as full extent of July breach is questioned
Cybersecurity Month25 Oct 2023 |
Spanish phisherfolk caught in cops' net in multi-million-euro catch
Crooks swindled about €3 million from victims
Cybersecurity Month25 Oct 2023 | 1
After six days and thousands of pwned users, Cisco poised to patch IOS XE flaw
Security in brief ALSO: SolarWinds using plaintext passwords; North Korea attacks TeamCity; Critical vulns, and more
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2023 | 3
International Criminal Court blames spies for 'targeted and sophisticated attack'
Tell us it's Russia without telling us it's Russia
Cybersecurity Month21 Oct 2023 | 13
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token
Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2023 | 38
‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities
Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence
Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 51
San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes
Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests
Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 30
Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app
Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22
Critical Citrix bug exploited by data thieves weeks before being patched
Updated Time to close those active sessions
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 |
Governments resent their dependence on Big Tech
Singapore summit hears how private sector's constant security sins create risk for sovereigns
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22
Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels
Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 31
Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough
Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 2
X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year
Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 69
Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned
Good news: There's a free scanner to check your kit. Bad news: Still no fix
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2023 | 15
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 12
Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover
Looks to be related to critical libwebp bug found — and fixed — last month
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 5
Popular
IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer something else instead
Changes gone down about as well as a hard reboot on a production DB
Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters
Refresh rate glitch could leave MacBook Pro 14" and 16" models unbootable
Ace holed: Hardware store empire felled by cyberattack
US outfit scrambles to repair operations, restore processing of online orders
Google bins integrity API that looked more than a bit like horrible DRM for websites
Chocolate Factory to focus on more limited attestation for Android WebViews
In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one
And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it
Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
Firefox Android add-ons coming soon
'Mass exploitation' of Citrix Bleed underway as ransomware crews pile in
At least two extortion gangs abusing CVE-2023-4966, we're told
Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
Handle with care, but a native package is still a good sign
Intel's PC chip ship is sinking with Arm-ada on the horizon
Opinion That's what happens when you completely misread the market
'Corrupt' cop jailed for tipping off pal to EncroChat dragnet
Taking selfie with 'official sensitive' doc wasn't smartest idea, either
STORIES
Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs
Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18
EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states
What could possibly go wrong?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 82
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 11
Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance
They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms
Turns out secrecy doesn't breed security
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 26
Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data
House always wins, er, wait ...
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 13
Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole
Meanwhile, Exchange Online is on the fritz
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 13
CISOs' salary growth slows – with pay gap widening
We still doubt any infosec leaders will be going without heating this winter
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 2
From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
Feature IT folks look back on 20 years of what is now infosec tradition
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 17
Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software
PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 15
Vietnam accused of Predator spyware attack on EU and US politicians
Awkward, seeing as the US and Vietnam just announced a refreshed relationship
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2023 | 1
FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year
Internet considered harmful
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2023 | 68
Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration
Analysis The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 17
China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears
Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 12
Improving defense of US space assets isn't rocket science. Oh wait
Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years?
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 4
Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei
Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today
Updated Americans are used to drills :(
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62
North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware
LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 4
Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator
Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 39
Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets
As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware
Just because you're paranoid…
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 8
Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses
CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 |
US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors
Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 9
Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry
Better late than never, we guess
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 6
Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers
Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results
Cybersecurity Month26 Sep 2023 | 21
Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist
Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital
Cybersecurity Month25 Sep 2023 | 37
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware
Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6
ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network
IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 4
US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation
National defense files can earn you $55K … and espionage charges
Cybersecurity Month21 Sep 2023 | 15
Biting the hand that feeds IT
