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US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has signed a working arrangement with its EU counterparts to increase cross-border information sharing and more to tackle criminals.…
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients
More than 22,000 patients of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were hit by data leaks that took place between 2020 and 2021.…
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China
A Belgian man has been arrested and charged for his role in a years-long smuggling scheme to export military-grade electronics from the US to Russia and China.…
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs
Australia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose.…
Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack
A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple, Android and Linux devices and inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands, according to a software engineer at drone technology firm SkySafe.…
Locking down the edge
Sponsored Post Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices.…
A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list
A security vulnerability previously added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA), and included in reputable threat reports is now being formally rejected by infosec organizations.…
Shielding the data that drives AI
Sponsored Feature Every organisation must prioritise the protection of mission critical data, applications and workloads or risk disaster in the face of an ever-widening threat landscape.…
Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links
Atlassian has emailed its customers to warn of four critical vulnerabilities, but the message had flaws of its own – the links it contained weren't live for all readers at the time of despatch.…
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security
Microsoft on Tuesday warned that full security support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, but offered a lifeline for customers unable or unwilling to upgrade two years hence.…
Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free
Cisco's executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle.…
Fancy Bear goes phishing in US, European high-value networks
Fancy Bear, the Kremlin's cyber-spy crew, has been exploiting two previously patched bugs for large-scale phishing campaigns against high-value targets – like government, defense, and aerospace agencies in the US and Europe – since March, according to Microsoft. …
CISA details twin attacks on federal servers via unpatched ColdFusion flaw
CISA has released details about a federal agency that recently had at least two public-facing servers compromised by attackers exploiting a critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability.…
DSPM deep dive: debunking data security myths
Partner Content There are plenty of technology acronyms in the alphabet soup of the cybersecurity industry, but DSPM is the latest one leading the charge; its recent buzz has brought scrutiny to various security concepts that have cluttered the meaning behind data security posture management.…
BlackCat ransomware crims threaten to directly extort victim's customers
The AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group said it plans to "go direct" to the clients of a firm it allegedly attacked to extort them, claiming to have infiltrated the systems of accounting software vendor Tipalti.…
It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals
The UK's communications regulator has laid out guidance on how online services might perform age checks as part of the Online Safety Act.…
UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim
The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years.…
US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities
Iran-linked cyber thugs have exploited Israeli-made programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used in "multiple" water systems and other operational technology environments at facilities across the US, according to multiple law enforcement agencies .…
Hershey phishes! - Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds
There's no sugarcoating this news: The Hershey Company has disclosed cyber crooks gobbled up 2,214 people's financial information following a phishing campaign that netted the chocolate maker's data.…
Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug
The bug that was very occasionally corrupting data on file copies in OpenZFS 2.2.0 has been identified and fixed, and there's a fix for the previous OpenZFS release too.…
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