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Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach

Tue, 12/12/2023 - 13:46
Officers potentially targeted by dissidents can't afford to relocate for their safety, while others seek support to change their names

An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff.…

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BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz

Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:23
Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting

BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.…

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Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online

Tue, 12/12/2023 - 06:30
Scum lure folks with promises of good jobs in crypto and then won't let them leave

Hundreds of suspected people smugglers have been arrested, and 163 potential victims rescued from servitude, as part of an Interpol-coordinated operation dubbed "Turquesa V" that targeted cyber criminals who lure workers into servitude to carry out their scams.…

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Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses

Tue, 12/12/2023 - 01:45
Expanded service provider definition could force cafes and hotels to spy for the feds

Many US businesses may be required to assist in government-directed surveillance – depending upon which of two reform bills before Congress is approved.…

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2.5M patients infected with data loss in Norton Healthcare ransomware outbreak

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 20:01
AlphV lays claims to the intrusion

Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people's most sensitive data during a ransomware attack in May.…

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Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 18:08
Latest offensive cyber group to switch to atypical programming for payloads

Research into Lazarus Group's attacks using Log4Shell has revealed novel malware strains written in an atypical programming language.…

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Two years on, 1 in 4 apps still vulnerable to Log4Shell

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 15:01
Lack of awareness still blamed for patching apathy despite it being among most infamous bugs of all time

Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications are dependent on outdated libraries, leaving them open to exploitation.…

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Read the clouds, reduce the cyber risk

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 13:52
Why a one-size- fits- all approach to cloud security is unlikely to work in multi-cloud deployments

Webinar  In the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud - a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. But in our global business environment, there's no single defining feature to aid classification.…

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23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 11:46
Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns

Security in brief  The saga of 23andMe's mega data breach has reached something of a conclusion, with the company saying its probe has determined millions of leaked records originated from illicit break-ins into just 14,000 accounts.…

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VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure

Mon, 11/12/2023 - 10:15
Keeping the lights on with an enterprise product while staying true to your roots

Interview  Monitoring biz VictoriaMetrics is relatively unusual in its field. It is yet to accept external investment, preferring instead to try to grow organically rather than being forced to through a private equity meat grinder by committing to grow by X every year until the investor exits.…

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Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky

Sat, 09/12/2023 - 11:28
Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda

An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.…

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Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 22:30
End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance

Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.…

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That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 15:25
Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.…

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Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 06:30
Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either

A trio of Polish security researchers claim to have found that trains built by Newag SA contain software that sabotages them if the hardware is serviced by competitors.…

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Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets

Fri, 08/12/2023 - 01:31
The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes

Russia-backed attackers have named new targets for their ongoing phishing campaigns, with defense-industrial firms and energy facilities now in their sights, according to agencies of the Five Eyes alliance.…

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Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets

Thu, 07/12/2023 - 22:11
Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged

A series of attacks against Microsoft Active Directory domains could allow miscreants to spoof DNS records, compromise Active Directory and steal all the secrets it stores, according to Akamai security researchers.…

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