Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once Sponsored Feature Considering it has such a large share of the data protection market, Veeam doesn't talk much about backups in meetings with enterprise customers these days.... [...]
Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed "high severity," in VMware's IT operations and log management tools within Cloud Foundation, including two information disclosure bugs that could lead to credential leakage under certain conditions.... [...]
‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’ interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China's Salt Typhoon breached American government and telecommunications networks was "foolish" and "bad for national security," according to retired US Navy Rear Admiral …
400 hospitals and med centers across 15 states rely on its products New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.... [...]
Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps developed on behalf of the UK's three major political parties.... [...]
Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.... [...]
Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month Graphics tablet maker Wacom has warned customers their credit card details may well have been stolen by miscreants while they were buying stuff from its website.... [...]
Oh someone's in DeepShi... China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.... [...]
Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better? North Korea's Lazarus Group compromised hundreds of victims across the globe in a massive secret-stealing supply chain attack that was ongoing as of earlier this month, according to security researchers.... [...]
And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy A new variant of the Mirai-based malware Aquabot is actively exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel phones to build a remote-controlled botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team.... [...]
Watch this webinar on-demand and learn how to safeguard your organisation’s future Webinar The cybersecurity landscape continues to change at pace, leaving IT professionals constantly battling threats.... [...]
Mastermind begs colluders to bury evidence later used to imprison him In announcing the sentencing of three Brits who ran OTP Agency, an account-takeover business, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed how a 2021 report sent the fraudsters into a panicked frenzy.... [...]
Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not achieve this goal even by 2030.... [...]
Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam's HR department – the Office of Personnel Management – claiming the Trump administration's rapid roll out of a new federal email system broke the law.... [...]
It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more Many recent Apple laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones powered by Cupertino's homegrown Silicon processors can be exploited to reveal email content, browsing behavior, and other sensitive data through two newly identified side-channel attacks on Chrome …
Big-game hunting to the extreme Hellcat, the ransomware crew that infected Schneider Electric and demanded $125,000 in baguettes, has aggressively targeted government, education, energy, and other critical industries since it emerged around mid-2024.... [...]
The shared responsibility model: why securing AWS workloads is essential Partner Content Organizations are increasingly shifting their deployments to the cloud due to its many benefits over traditional on-premises solutions.... [...]
Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right? IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent) were forced to contain efforts by criminals to breach their defenses in the past year.... [...]
Cupertino kicks off the year with a zero-day Apple has plugged a security hole in the software at the heart of its iPhones, iPads, Vision Pro goggles, Apple TVs and macOS Sequoia Macs, warning some miscreants have already exploited the bug.... [...]
Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies.... [...]
Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity Updated China's DeepSeek, which shook up American AI makers with the debut of its V3 and reasoning-capable R1 LLM families, has limited new signups to its web-based interface to its models due to what's said to be an ongoing cyberattack …
Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd... almost Google says it's now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.... [...]
NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones Swedish authorities have "seized" a vessel – believed to be the cargo ship Vezhen – "suspected of carrying out sabotage" after a cable running between Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea was damaged on the morning of January 26 …
Also, Subaru web portal spills user deets, Tornado Cash sanctions overturned, a Stark ransomware attack, and more Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare's content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps like Signal, Discord, and others.... [...]
Former freelancer cuffed a week after being dismissed by UK's top visitor attraction The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems.... [...]