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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.…

Watch this webinar for a hair raising journey into the darkest depths of GenAI enabled cyber crime

Sponsored Post  Artificial intelligence (AI) offers enormous commercial potential but also substantial risks to data security if it is harnessed by cyber criminals intent on stealing or corrupting sensitive information for their own gain.…

Is there no cure for this cyber-plague?

Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may well have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States.…

As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today

Updated  Omni Hotels & Resorts' computer systems have been offline since Friday due to what the American luxury hospitality chain called a "disruption."…

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.…

Device Bound Session Credentials said to render cookie theft useless

Google reckons that cookie theft is a problem for users, and is seeking to address it with a mechanism to tie authentication data to a specific device, rendering any stolen cookies useless.…

Web devs advised to do their part to limit UI redress attacks

Web browsers still struggle to prevent clickjacking, an attack technique first noted in 2008 that repurposes web page interface elements to deceive visitors.…

CISA calls for 'fundamental, security-focused reforms' to happen ASAP, delaying work on other software

A review of the June 2023 attack on Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service – which saw accounts used by senior US officials compromised by a China-linked group called "Storm-0558" – has found that the incident would have been preventable save for Microsoft's lax infosec culture and sub-par cloud security precautions.…

And Diameter, too, for good measure

The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices.…

Irony alerts: Open Web Application Security Project Foundation suffers lapse

A misconfigured MediaWiki web server allowed digital snoops to access members' resumes containing their personal details at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation.…

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.…

Simple stuff like slapping on a logo fools more folks and travels further

As hundreds of millions of voters around the globe prepare to elect their leaders this year, there's no question that trolls will try to sway the outcomes using AI, according to Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center.…

Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses

Cloud security provider Rubrik has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange following a flurry of similar flotations.…

Victims of the powerful surveillance tool will soon find out the truth

Former Polish government officials may face criminal charges following an investigation into their use of the notorious spyware Pegasus to surveil political opponents and others.…

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.…

Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs

It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just might, hopefully, cut down on the amount of spam users receive.…

We were very sorry to learn of the passing of Professor Ross Anderson a few days ago.

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Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind

Opinion  Apple is good at security. It's good at processors. Thus GoFetch, a major security flaw in its processor architecture, is a double whammy.…

Plus: Google Cloud ANZ boss departs; Japan revives airliner ambitions; China-linked attackers target Asian entities

Asia in brief  Singapore's Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named "COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases" (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing.…

At least not until Redmond's government edition is ready to roll

Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored to the needs of government users.…