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Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip
Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'
The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…
Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting
Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers
It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…
What to do in the age of the critical breach
The UK government could be forgiven for wanting to forget March 2024 ever happened.…
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.…
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors
The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism.…
Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.…
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.…
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.…
Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets
A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam.…
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans
Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies
The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military.…
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.…
Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever
The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today.…
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America'
UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from the massively expensive side and disruptive digital break-in.…
Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7
It's become somewhat cliché in cybersecurity reporting to speculate whether an organization will have the resources to "keep the lights on" after an attack. But the opposite turns out to be true with Leicester City Council following its March ransomware incident.…
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug
Neighbourhood Watch (NW) groups across the UK can now rest easy knowing the developers behind a communications platform fixed a web app bug that leaked their data en masse.…
Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam
A misconfigured cloud server that used a North Korean IP address has led to the discovery that film production studios including the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max could be inadvertently using workers from the hermit kingdom for animation projects.…
Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang
Russian spies are exploiting a years-old Windows print spooler vulnerability and using a custom tool called GooseEgg to elevate privileges and steal credentials across compromised networks, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
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