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Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users

A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.…

Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount

Comment  Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.…

Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected

Exclusive  A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.…

The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online

A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.…

Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary

Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen.…

ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints

Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.…

Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess

The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.…

Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise

Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight after Microsoft axed versions 2016 and 2019.…

Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online.…