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First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain

UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million.…

$62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits

Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections.…

Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app

Some smart locks controlled by Chirp Systems' software can be remotely unlocked by strangers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.…

Streamer says access came via credential stuffing

Streaming giant Roku is making 2FA mandatory after attackers accessed around 591,000 customer accounts earlier this year.…

Attackers could nab an org's most sensitive keys if left unaddressed

Customers of Delinea's Secret Server are being urged to upgrade their installations "immediately" after a researcher claimed a critical vulnerability could allow attackers to gain admin-level access.…

Fears of low-cost invasion and data spies spark call for ban

Electric vehicles may become a new front in America's tech war with China after a US senator called for Washington DC to block Chinese-made EVs to protect domestic industries and national security.…

The prima facie case for real-time threat intelligence

Webinar  Cybercriminals are always on the hunt for new ways to breach your privacy, and busy supply chains often look like a good way to get in under the wire.…

PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more

Infosec in brief  US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass.…

Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued a critical alert for an under-attack vulnerability in the PAN-OS software used in its firewall-slash-VPN products.…

Another one bytes the dust

In an incredibly rare move, Google is killing off one of its online services – this time, VPN for Google One.…

Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that Russian spies who gained access to Microsoft's email system were able to steal sensitive data, including authentication details and that immediate remedial action is required by affected agencies.…

Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats

Several French municipal governments' services have been knocked offline following a "large-scale cyber attack" on their shared servers.…

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased

Apple has made a significant change to the wording of its threat notifications, opting not to attribute attacks to a specific source or perpetrator, but categorizing them broadly as "mercenary spyware."…

China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here

The commander of the US Space Force (USSF) has warned that America risks losing its dominant position in space, and therefore on Earth too.…

Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6%

Hospitals – despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private – frequently use tracking technologies on their websites to share user information with Google, Meta, data brokers, and other third parties, according to research published today.…

High-profile individuals including MPs said to be caught up in leak

Exclusive  Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database.…

Go, go InSpectre Gadget

Intel CPU cores remain vulnerable to Spectre data-leaking attacks, say academics at VU Amsterdam.…

BatBadBut hits Erlang, Go, Python, Ruby as well

Programmers are being urged to update their Rust versions after the security experts working on the language addressed a critical vulnerability that could lead to malicious command injections on Windows machines.…

Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs

Elon Musk's X has apparently fixed an embarrassing issue implemented earlier in the week that royally bungled URLs on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.…

Using threat intelligence to mitigate against security breaches

Webinar  There are some unhappy projections out there about the prevalence of third-party security breaches.…