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Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks

Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…

Who has access to what? Without centralized governance, orgs struggle to answer this simple question.

Partner Content  From the moment users log onto their machines, access rights shape their experience. Access rights determine which apps they can run, which directories they can open, and what information they can retrieve.…

Bank says incident went undetected for over a year before discovery in June

A US fintech biz is writing to nearly 700,000 customers because a former employee may have accessed or acquired their data after leaving the company.…

Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory

North Korean spies used ChatGPT to generate a fake military ID for use in an espionage campaign against a South Korean defense-related institution, according to new research.…

Chip giant accused of breaching conditions of $6.9B Mellanox takeover

China has dealt Nvidia another blow, finding the chipmaker in violation of the country's anti-monopoly Law and escalating a long-running regulatory headache into a full investigation.…

As post-cyberattack layoffs begin, labor org argues UK goverment should step in

The UK's chief automotive workers' union is calling on the government to establish a Covid-esque furlough scheme for the thousands of individuals who face losing their jobs due to the cyber-related downtime at Jaguar Land Rover.…

Peers will quiz campaigners on whether Ofcom's new measures will actually work, or just add more compliance pain

The House of Lords is about to put the latest child-protection plans of UK regulator the Office of Communications (Ofcom) under the microscope.…

PLUS: Japan woos Micron, again; China launches chip dumping probe; Mitsubishi expands opsec empire; and more!

Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries.…

PLUS: China's Great Firewall springs a leak; FBI issues rare 'Flash Alert' of Salesforce attacks; $10m bounty for alleged Russian hacker; and more

Infosec In Brief  15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be carried out in their name.…