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Atos confirms talks with Airbus over cybersecurity wing sale
French IT services provider Atos has entered talks with Airbus to sell its tech security division in an effort to ease its financial burdens.…
Copy that? Xerox confirms 'security incident' at subsidiary
Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary - a week after INC Ransom claimed to have exfiltrated data from the copier and print giant.…
Formal ban on ransomware payments? Asking orgs nicely to not cough up ain't working
Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion.…
Google password resets not enough to stop these info-stealing malware strains
Security researchers say info-stealing malware can still access victims' compromised Google accounts even after passwords have been changed.…
Court hearings become ransomware concern after justice system breach
The court system of Victoria, Australia, was subject to a suspected ransomware attack in which audiovisual recordings of court hearings may have been accessed.…
Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried spared a second trial
US prosecutors do not plan to proceed with a second trial of convicted and imprisoned crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), according to a Southern District of New York court letter filed on December 29.…
CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results
On Call It’s the last Friday of 2023, but because the need for tech support never goes away neither does On Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers share their tales of being asked to fix the unfeasible, in circumstances that are often indefensible.…
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not
Feature The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to tens of thousands of customers from the mega-resort chains.…
Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' used in iPhone attacks
Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has exposed a previously unknown 'feature' in Apple iPhones that allows attackers to bypass hardware-based memory protection.…
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