News
Flux off: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…
Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier
Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany.…
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.…
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'
Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat
Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…
Don’t let cyberattacks keep you down
Sponsored Post It's not a question of if your organization gets hit by a cyberattack - only when, and how quickly it recovers.…
For healthcare orgs, disaster recovery means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infection
When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations – and criminals know it.…
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…
One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101
Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.…
Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes
Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…
North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers
North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.…
Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work
Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.…
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?…
Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users
Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.…
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill
The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…
Pages
