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Give users confidence in your digital infrastructure
Sponsored Post Research firm IDC estimates that over 53 percent of organizations are now mostly or completely digital native.…
Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch
Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch to deal with a problem that prevented some Windows Server 2022 machines from booting.…
Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his promise to issue a federal pardon upon taking office.…
Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch
Feature The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet nominees’ public remarks and expert comments suggest it will make significant changes in the field.…
Ransomware scum make it personal for <i>Reg</i> readers by impersonating tech support
Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks may have ties to Black Basta and FIN7, according to Sophos.…
PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen
Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day
Fortinet customers need to get with the program and apply the latest updates as nearly 50,000 management interfaces are still vulnerable to the latest zero-day exploit.…
HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.…
Breaking free from reactive security
Webinar In today's digital landscape, cybersecurity teams can often find themselves trapped in an endless cycle of responding to threats.…
Banks must keep ahead of risks and reap AI rewards
Partner Content The banking industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) is thriving, with strong financial performance underpinning its technological ambitions.…
Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.…
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.…
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…
FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies?
Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn't mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed.…
Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it
Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is late in the game.…
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