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Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral
interview Gutting the Cyber Safety Review Board as it was investigating how China's Salt Typhoon breached American government and telecommunications networks was "foolish" and "bad for national security," according to retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.…
Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis
New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.…
Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps developed on behalf of the UK's three major political parties.…
WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff
More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.…
Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout
Graphics tablet maker Wacom has warned customers their credit card details may well have been stolen by miscreants while they were buying stuff from its website.…
Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek
China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.…
North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials
North Korea's Lazarus Group compromised hundreds of victims across the globe in a massive secret-stealing supply chain attack that was ongoing as of earlier this month, according to security researchers.…
Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet
A new variant of the Mirai-based malware Aquabot is actively exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel phones to build a remote-controlled botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team.…
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'Bro delete the chat': Feel the panic shortly before cops bust major online fraud ring
In announcing the sentencing of three Brits who ran OTP Agency, an account-takeover business, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed how a 2021 report sent the fraudsters into a panicked frenzy.…
Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like cyber resilience progress
The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not achieve this goal even by 2030.…
The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster
Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam's HR department – the Office of Personnel Management – claiming the Trump administration's rapid roll out of a new federal email system broke the law.…
SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon
Many recent Apple laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones powered by Cupertino's homegrown Silicon processors can be exploited to reveal email content, browsing behavior, and other sensitive data through two newly identified side-channel attacks on Chrome and Safari.…
Baguette bandits strike again with ransomware and a side of mockery
Hellcat, the ransomware crew that infected Schneider Electric and demanded $125,000 in baguettes, has aggressively targeted government, education, energy, and other critical industries since it emerged around mid-2024.…
Protecting AWS environments from cyberthreats
Partner Content Organizations are increasingly shifting their deployments to the cloud due to its many benefits over traditional on-premises solutions.…
Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks
IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent) were forced to contain efforts by criminals to breach their defenses in the past year.…
Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS
Apple has plugged a security hole in the software at the heart of its iPhones, iPads, Vision Pro goggles, Apple TVs and macOS Sequoia Macs, warning some miscreants have already exploited the bug.…
US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies.…
DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack
China's DeepSeek, which shook up US AI companies with the debut of its R1 model family, has limited new signups due to ongoing cyberattack.…
Google takes action after coder reports 'most sophisticated attack I've ever seen'
Google says it's now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.…