Creates 100-strong squad comprising cops and spooks with remit to disrupt ransomware ops Australia's government has declared the nation is planning to go on the offensive against international cyber crooks following recent high-profile attacks on local health insurer Medibank and telco Optus.... [...]
Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has pointed to Russia as the location of the attackers who breached local health insurer Medibank, accessed almost ten million customer records, and in recent days dumped some customer data onto the …
Anyone can pretend to be your Windows IT support and take command of staff devices VMware has revealed a terrible trio of critical-rated flaws in Workspace ONE Assist for Windows – a product used by IT and help desk staff to remotely take over and manage employees' devices.... [...]
Suggests tweaks to IP semantics as one way to identify protected tech and traffic The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wants to devise a digital equivalent of its emblems (the red cross and red crescent), to signify that certain digital resources are protected and must not be …
Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Australian health insurer Medibank – which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million …
Personal info and data safe, stolen code not critical, apparently Dropbox has said it was successfully phished, resulting in someone copying 130 of its private GitHub code repositories and swiping some of its secret API credentials.... [...]
Local media say they're China backed, Ministry only mentions organized crime India's Home Ministry has asked state governments to crack down on illegal lending apps it says have led to "multiple suicides by citizens owing to harassment, blackmail, and harsh recovery methods."... [...]
All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed Australian health insurer Medibank's data breach was today revealed to be even worse than first thought, with a regulatory filing stating that info describing all four million customers has been accessed.... [...]
Tehran laughs it off as foreign psyop or media stunt. Just don't remind them about Stuxnet, OK? Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has laughed off claims that the email systems of a subsidiary were compromised, revealing important operational data about a nuclear power plant.... [...]
Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers Updated Australian health insurer Medibank has revealed it's been contacted by a group that claims to have its customers' data and is threatening to distribute it.... [...]
Involvement with lobby group that welcomed Putin's pals presses buttons Germany's government has stood down the president of its Federal Office for Information Security, Arne Schönbohm, over his links to Russia.... [...]
Naturally, they're already under attack – so you know what to do next Security appliance vendor Fortinet has become the subject of a bug report by its own FortiGuard Labs after the discovery of a critical-rated flaw in three of its products.... [...]
Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings Australian carrier Optus's recent data breach will be investigated by two regulators, the double trouble likely an indicator of the nation's displeasure at the incident – which saw almost ten million locals' personal data exposed online.... [...]
'Oh what a feeling' when your contractor leaks site source code Toyota has admitted it put 296,019 email addresses and customer management numbers of folks who signed up for its T-Connect assistance website at risk of online theft by bungling its security.... [...]
Expands into a sector so toxic many won't touch it Supposedly ingenious schemes to revolutionize the finance industry with crypto are not hard to find – nor are their failures. And scarcely a day passes on which a cryptocurrency venture's infosec is not found wanting. That sad situation is causing …
Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its government doesn’t like don’t reach …
‘This is not what justice looks like’ says US attorney of sanction for leak of 100 million records Convicted wire fraud perpetrator Paige Thompson (aka "erratic") has been sentenced to time served and five years of probation with location and computer monitoring, prompting U.S. Attorney Nick Brown to …
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree Hotel chain Shangri-La Group has admitted to its systems being attacked, and personal data describing guests accessed by unknown parties, over a timeframe that includes the dates on which a high-level international defence conference was staged at one of its …
Remember this next time Microsoft talks about how seriously it takes security Security researchers have warned a zero-day flaw in Microsoft’s Exchange server is being actively exploited.... [...]
Remember this next time Microsoft talks about how seriously it takes security Updated Infosec experts have warned zero-day flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange server are being actively exploited.... [...]
Apparent perp claims to have deleted swiped info as carrier Optus struggles to get its story straight +Comment Australian authorities have asked the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist with investigations into the data breach at local telco Optus.... [...]
Report finds increase in anonymous vuln reports The number of vulnerability reports provided by Chinese information security researchers has fallen sharply, according to research by think tank The Atlantic Council, which also found a strangely commensurate increase in bug reports from unknown sources.... [...]
Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity The Biden-nominated chief of space operations for the USA's Space Force (USSF) rates China his greatest challenge, as the Middle Kingdom has developed technologies to destroy space assets.... [...]
AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Uber is tonight reeling from what looks like a substantial cybersecurity breach.... [...]
VMware ran tests on kernel 5.19 and saw some nasty numbers. Meanwhile progress on version 6.0 is steady VMware engineers have tested the Linux kernel's fix for the Retbleed speculative execution bug, and report it can impact compute performance by a whopping 70 percent.... [...]