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No room for your spy mobiles on our streets

The US Commerce Department has decided not to wait for the inevitable, and today announced plans that would ban connected vehicle technology - and vehicles using it - from Chinese and Russian sources.…

34,000 engineers pledged to the cause, but no word on exec pay

Microsoft took a victory lap today, touting the 34,000 full-time engineers it has dedicated to its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) since it launched almost a year ago and making public its first progress report on efforts to improve security in its products and services.…

That 'third party' person sure is responsible for a lot of IT blunders, eh?

A major IT hardware manufacturer is correcting a recent security update after customers complained of a password character limit being introduced when there previously wasn't one.…

No malware crew linked to this latest red-teaming tool yet

Attackers are using Splinter, a new post-exploitation tool, to wreak havoc in victims' IT environments after initial infiltration, utilizing capabilities such as executing Windows commands, stealing files, collecting cloud service account info, and downloading additional malware onto victims' systems.…

PLUS: Payer of $75M ransom reportedly identified; Craigslist founder becomes security philanthropist, and more

Infosec In Brief  Something's wrong with macOS Sequoia, and it's breaking security software installed on some updated Apple systems.…

Just one victim milked of nearly a quarter of a billion bucks

Two individuals are in cuffs and facing serious charges in connection to a major theft of cryptocurrency worth more than $230 million from a single victim.…

Fears over chained attacks affecting EOL product

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just added the latest Ivanti weakness to its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, a situation sure to annoy some – given that it's yet another path traversal flaw.…

Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach

High-end British department store Harvey Nichols is writing to customers to confirm some of their data was exposed in a recent cyberattack.…

Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret'

Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the real villains in the cyber crime story, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued.…

Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg

A California city, a Spanish fashion giant, an Indian paper manufacturer, and two pharmaceutical companies are the alleged victims of what looks like a new ransomware gang that started leaking stolen info this week.…

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals

Buried beneath the endless feeds and attention-grabbing videos of the modern internet is a network of data harvesting and sale that's perhaps far more vast than most people realize, and it desperately needs regulation. …

To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap

The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp — but were apparently ignored, according to Uncle Sam.…

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable

Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products.…

Better check your widgets, people

Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations.…

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy

Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London's Metropolitan Police they hope will lead to charges against Pegasus peddler NSO Group.…

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor

The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police.…

Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks

China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.…

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life?

Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).…

US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again

Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft's threat intelligence team.…

Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today

First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah's walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving more than a dozen dead.…