Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs Elon Musk's X has apparently fixed an embarrassing issue implemented earlier in the week that royally bungled URLs on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.... [...]
Many decide to make no changes after detecting a breach UK businesses' response to security breaches has "astounded" experts following the release of the government's official cybercrime stats for 2024.... [...]
IT systems pulled offline for chance to paws and reflect First, they came for hospitals, then it was charities and cancer centers. Now, cyber scumbags are coming for the puppies and kittens.... [...]
Theories abound over who's truly responsible Change Healthcare is allegedly being extorted by a second ransomware gang, mere weeks after recovering from an ALPHV attack.... [...]
Attacks could be completed in seconds, compromising customer safety A self-service check-in terminal used in a German Ibis budget hotel was found leaking hotel room keycodes, and the researcher behind the discovery claims the issue could potentially affect hotels around Europe.... [...]
CEO addresses whirlwind start to 2024 and how it plans to prevent a repeat Ivanti has committed to adopting a secure-by-design approach to security as it gears up for an organizational overhaul in response to the multiple vulnerabilities in Connect Secure exploited earlier this year.... [...]
INC Ransom emerges as a growing threat as some ex-LockBit/ALPHV affiliates get new gigs Leicester City Council is finally admitting its "cyber incident" was carried out by a ransomware gang and that data was stolen, hours after the criminals forced its hand.... [...]
A man with a list of accolades long enough for several lifetimes, friends remember his brilliance Obituary Venerable computer scientist and information security expert Ross Anderson has died at the age of 67.... [...]
Nothing says 'sorry' like 10 percent off shipping for a month Ecommerce platform Pandabuy has apologized after two cybercriminals were spotted hawking personal data belonging to 1.3 million of its customers.... [...]
This follows attack on NHS services in Scotland last week The cyber skids at INC Ransom are claiming responsbility for the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Leicester City Council, according to a post caught by eagle-eyed infosec watchers.... [...]
Vendor takes hardline approach to patch disclosure to new levels JetBrains TeamCity users are urged to apply the latest version upgrade this week after the vendor disclosed 26 new security issues in the CI/CD web application.... [...]
Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.... [...]
The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.... [...]
Software slackers urged to up their game The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.... [...]
Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy The UK's deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.... [...]
Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Exclusive The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack.... [...]
Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition.... [...]
Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three As many as 300,000 servers or devices on the public internet are thought to be vulnerable right now to the recently disclosed Loop Denial-of-Service technique that works against some UDP-based application-level services.... [...]
As months go by without fixes, hotels take the scenic route to securing rooms Around 3 million doors protected by popular keycard locks are thought to be vulnerable to security flaws that allow miscreants to quickly slip into locked rooms.... [...]
MarineMax may be in choppy waters after 'stolen data' given million-dollar price tag The Rhysida ransomware group claims it was responsible for the cyberattack at US luxury yacht dealer MarineMax earlier this month.... [...]
Security experts insist ransomware is involved but Leicester zips its lips Leicester City Council continues to battle a suspected ransomware attack while keeping schtum about the key details.... [...]
From a trickle to a flood, threats now seen as too great to ignore US government is urging state officials to band together to improve the cybersecurity of the country's water sector amid growing threats from foreign adversaries.... [...]
Robert Purbeck even went as far as threatening a dentist with the sale of his child’s data A cyberattacker and extortionist of a medical center has pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud and abuse charges in the US.... [...]
Latest figures paint grim picture of how viciously the elderly are targeted The FBI says investment fraud was the form of cybercrime that incurred the greatest financial loss for Americans last year.... [...]
Innovative Ethereum feature exploited as victims say goodbye to assets Infosec researchers are noting rising cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game.... [...]