Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people's sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked.... [...]
Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? TeamViewer says it was Russian intelligence that broke into its systems this week.... [...]
Today us vultures are debating bans on ransom payments, deplorable tactics by extortionists, and more Kettle Believe us, we wish there was a simple solution that could stop ransomware dead in its tracks for good.... [...]
Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?! The SEC today said its Twitter account was hijacked to wrongly claim it had approved hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETFs, causing the cryptocurrency to spike and then slip in price.... [...]
Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab Apple emitted patches this week to close security holes that have been exploited in the wild by commercial spyware.... [...]
When is warrantless surveillance warranted? Register Kettle If there's one thing that's more all the rage these days than this AI hype, it's warrantless spying by the Feds.... [...]
Your passwords are still safe, biz says Internal source code and documents have been stolen from LastPass by a cyber-thief.... [...]
Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided Tuesday.... [...]
Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution Apple has released updates for its mobile and desktop operating systems to patch security holes that may well have been exploited in the wild.... [...]
Of course you realize, this means war Hundreds of computers in Ukraine have been infected with data-wiping Windows malware, say researchers at ESET.... [...]
Of course you realize, this means war Hundreds of computers in Ukraine have been infected with data-wiping Windows malware, say researchers at ESET.... [...]
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more In brief A US Department of Defense staffer with top-secret clearance stole the identities of dozens of people from a work SharePoint system to apply for loans totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars.... [...]
Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog Microsoft reckons government cyber-spies in China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are actively exploiting the Log4j 2.x remote-code execution hole.... [...]
Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders Patch Tuesday It's not just Log4j you need to worry about this week. It's the final Patch Tuesday of the year.... [...]
Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more In brief If your Git operations start failing on Friday, August 13 with GitHub, it may well be because you're still using password authentication – and you need to change that.... [...]
Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more In brief Malicious libraries capable of lifting credit card numbers and opening backdoors on infected machines have been found in PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python.... [...]
Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized Google has built an online tool that maps out all the dependencies in millions of open-source software libraries and flags up any unpatched vulnerabilities.... [...]
Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles Microsoft has taken a look at memory management code used in a wide range of equipment, from industrial control systems to healthcare gear, and found it can be potentially exploited to hijack devices.... [...]
First that IPO and now this Digital Ocean on Wednesday said someone was able to snoop on some of its cloud subscribers' billing information via a now-patched vulnerability.... [...]
Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections QNAP has urged its customers to install and run its latest firmware and malware removal tools on their NAS boxes amid a surge in ransomware infections.... [...]
More a declaration of war than turning the tables Updated It is possible to hijack and manipulate Cellebrite's phone-probing software tools by placing a specially crafted file on your handset, it is claimed.... [...]
More a declaration of war than turning the tables Updated It is possible to hijack and manipulate Cellebrite's phone-probing software tools by placing a specially crafted file on your handset, it is claimed.... [...]
The votes have been cast and counted... and it's a landslide Register debate Last week, we argued over whether or not the media, including El Reg, should stop using the word hacker as a pejorative.... [...]
Plus: Chrome also patched, Microsoft and Intel team up for homomorphic encryption, and more In brief Apple on Monday released security patches for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and Safari to fix up a vulnerability that can be exploited by malicious web pages to run malware on victims' computers and …
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op Apple today released software updates to patch vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads that may have been exploited by miscreants to silently snoop on victims from afar.... [...]