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American Express admits card data exposed and blames third party

5 Březen, 2024 - 00:04
Don't leave home without … IT security

A security failure at a third-party vendor exposed an untold number of American Express card numbers, expiry dates, and other data to persons unknown.…

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Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama

4 Březen, 2024 - 22:01
No honor among thieves?

ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment.…

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Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers' designs

4 Březen, 2024 - 21:00
Kim Jong Un's all in for home-built silicon says warning

North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim Jong Un's plans for a domestic semiconductor industry, according to Seoul's security agency.…

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German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

4 Březen, 2024 - 18:45
Officials can't tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future

The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war efforts in Ukraine, leaked by Russian media, is legitimate.…

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Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

4 Březen, 2024 - 15:30
Increasingly clear number of permanent solutions is narrowing

Global law enforcement authorities' attempts to shutter the LockBit ransomware crew have sparked a fresh call for a ban on ransomware payments to perpetrators.…

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The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

4 Březen, 2024 - 10:30
When you can't lock 'em up, lock 'em out

Opinion  The best cop shows excel at mind games: who's tricking whom, who really wins, and what price they pay. A twist of humor adds to the drama and keeps us hooked. It's rare enough in real life, far less so in the grim meat grinder of cybersecurity, yet sometimes it happens. It's happening right now.…

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LockBit's contested claim of fresh ransom payment suggests it's been well hobbled

4 Březen, 2024 - 04:15
ALSO: CISA warns Ivanti vuln mitigations might not work, SAML hijack doesn't need ADFS, and crit vulns

Infosec in brief  The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of its systems. But despite its posturing, the gang might have suffered more than it's letting on.…

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Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

4 Březen, 2024 - 02:15
Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year

Feature  Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation's ability to counter these adversaries.…

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Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

1 Březen, 2024 - 23:03
Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences

Updated  Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.…

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Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

1 Březen, 2024 - 22:34
/* Hope no one ever reads these functions lmao */

NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "all relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp.…

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Iranian charged over attacks against US defense contractors, government agencies

1 Březen, 2024 - 19:30
$10M bounty for anyone with info leading to Alireza Shafie Nasab's identification or location

The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and attempting to infiltrate US defense contractors and multiple government agencies.…

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In the vanguard of 21st century cyber threats

1 Březen, 2024 - 17:00
Everything you need to know about quantum safe encryption

Webinar  The quantum threat might seem futuristic, more like something you'd encounter in a science fiction film. But it's arguably already a danger to real cyber security defences.…

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Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

1 Březen, 2024 - 13:40
Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for years.…

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Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats

1 Březen, 2024 - 10:05
How zero trust controls and Google AI can strengthen your organization’s defences

Webinar  Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they rose by 38 percent according to Google Cloud.…

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NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

1 Březen, 2024 - 06:27
No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told

NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to 9.28 million customers that came to light last October.…

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GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

1 Březen, 2024 - 01:45
Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed

A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to GitHub and expanded to reach at least 100,000 compromised repositories.…

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Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

29 Únor, 2024 - 23:30
Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more

More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation – a finding that underscores the lack of privacy protection available to users of mobile devices.…

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White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers

29 Únor, 2024 - 22:44
Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual?

The Biden Administration has asked a court, rather than Congress, to renew controversial warrantless surveillance powers used by American intelligence and due to expire within weeks. It's a move that is either business as usual or an end-run around spying reforms, depending on who in Washington you believe.…

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Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

29 Únor, 2024 - 20:01
China's automakers don't sell in America, but the Feds are still going to investigate whether they're a threat

Concerned over the chance that Chinese-made cars could pose a future threat to national security, Biden's administration is proposing plans to probe potential threats posed by "connected" vehicles made in the Middle Kingdom.…

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Ransomware gangs are paying attention to infostealers, so why aren't you?

29 Únor, 2024 - 17:27
Analysts warn of big leap in cred-harvesting malware activity last year

There appears to be an uptick in interest among cybercriminals in infostealers – malware designed to swipe online account passwords, financial info, and other sensitive data from infected PCs – as a relatively cheap and easy way to get a foothold in organizations' IT environments to deploy devastating ransomware.…

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