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Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for 'uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure'

5 Březen, 2024 - 14:15
Exploits began within hours of the original disclosure, so patch now

Updated  Security shop Rapid7 is criticizing JetBrains for flouting its policy against silent patching regarding fixes for two fresh vulnerabilities in the TeamCity CI/CD server.…

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Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

5 Březen, 2024 - 10:30
Penny Appeal sent more than 460,000 texts asking for money to help war-torn countries, no opt out

Typically it is energy improvement peddlers or debt help specialists that are disgraced by Britain's data watchdog for spamming unsuspecting households, but the latest entrant in the hall of shame is a charity.…

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Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM

5 Březen, 2024 - 02:32
Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage

Cloudflare has tweaked its web application firewall (WAF) to add protections for applications using large language models.…

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American Express admits card data exposed and blames third party

5 Březen, 2024 - 00:04
Don't leave home without … IT security

A security failure at a third-party vendor exposed an untold number of American Express card numbers, expiry dates, and other data to persons unknown.…

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Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama

4 Březen, 2024 - 22:01
No honor among thieves?

ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment.…

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Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers' designs

4 Březen, 2024 - 21:00
Kim Jong Un's all in for home-built silicon says warning

North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim Jong Un's plans for a domestic semiconductor industry, according to Seoul's security agency.…

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German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

4 Březen, 2024 - 18:45
Officials can't tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future

The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war efforts in Ukraine, leaked by Russian media, is legitimate.…

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Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

4 Březen, 2024 - 15:30
Increasingly clear number of permanent solutions is narrowing

Global law enforcement authorities' attempts to shutter the LockBit ransomware crew have sparked a fresh call for a ban on ransomware payments to perpetrators.…

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The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

4 Březen, 2024 - 10:30
When you can't lock 'em up, lock 'em out

Opinion  The best cop shows excel at mind games: who's tricking whom, who really wins, and what price they pay. A twist of humor adds to the drama and keeps us hooked. It's rare enough in real life, far less so in the grim meat grinder of cybersecurity, yet sometimes it happens. It's happening right now.…

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LockBit's contested claim of fresh ransom payment suggests it's been well hobbled

4 Březen, 2024 - 04:15
ALSO: CISA warns Ivanti vuln mitigations might not work, SAML hijack doesn't need ADFS, and crit vulns

Infosec in brief  The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of its systems. But despite its posturing, the gang might have suffered more than it's letting on.…

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Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

4 Březen, 2024 - 02:15
Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year

Feature  Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation's ability to counter these adversaries.…

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Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

1 Březen, 2024 - 23:03
Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences

Updated  Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.…

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Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

1 Březen, 2024 - 22:34
/* Hope no one ever reads these functions lmao */

NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "all relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp.…

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Iranian charged over attacks against US defense contractors, government agencies

1 Březen, 2024 - 19:30
$10M bounty for anyone with info leading to Alireza Shafie Nasab's identification or location

The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and attempting to infiltrate US defense contractors and multiple government agencies.…

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In the vanguard of 21st century cyber threats

1 Březen, 2024 - 17:00
Everything you need to know about quantum safe encryption

Webinar  The quantum threat might seem futuristic, more like something you'd encounter in a science fiction film. But it's arguably already a danger to real cyber security defences.…

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Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

1 Březen, 2024 - 13:40
Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for years.…

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Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats

1 Březen, 2024 - 10:05
How zero trust controls and Google AI can strengthen your organization’s defences

Webinar  Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they rose by 38 percent according to Google Cloud.…

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NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

1 Březen, 2024 - 06:27
No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told

NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to 9.28 million customers that came to light last October.…

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