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Data resilience and data portability

The Register - 1 hour 6 min ago
Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once

Sponsored Feature  Considering it has such a large share of the data protection market, Veeam doesn't talk much about backups in meetings with enterprise customers these days.…

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VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation

The Register - 1 hour 8 min ago
Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant

Broadcom has fixed five flaws, collectively deemed "high severity," in VMware's IT operations and log management tools within Cloud Foundation, including two information disclosure bugs that could lead to credential leakage under certain conditions.…

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Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

The Register - 4 hours 53 min ago
‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’

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.…

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Ransomware attack at New York blood services provider – donors turned away during shortage crisis

The Register - 8 hours 54 min ago
400 hospitals and med centers across 15 states rely on its products

New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.…

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Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues

The Register - 11 hours 8 sec ago
Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report

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.…

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WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

The Register - 12 hours 53 min ago
Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff

More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.…

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Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout

The Register - 21 hours 57 min ago
Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month

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.…

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Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

The Register - 22 hours 36 min ago
Oh someone's in DeepShi...

China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.…

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North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 23:29
Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better?

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.…

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Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 15:32
And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy

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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Transform your approach to data security

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 13:00
Watch this webinar on-demand and learn how to safeguard your organisation’s future

Webinar  The cybersecurity landscape continues to change at pace, leaving IT professionals constantly battling threats.…

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'Bro delete the chat': Feel the panic shortly before cops bust major online fraud ring

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 12:31
Mastermind begs colluders to bury evidence later used to imprison him

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.…

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Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like cyber resilience progress

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 07:24
Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so

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.…

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The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 02:40
Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings

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.…

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SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon

The Register - Wed, 29/01/2025 - 00:26
It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more

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.…

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Baguette bandits strike again with ransomware and a side of mockery

The Register - Tue, 28/01/2025 - 22:15
Big-game hunting to the extreme

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.…

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Protecting AWS environments from cyberthreats

The Register - Tue, 28/01/2025 - 15:00
The shared responsibility model: why securing AWS workloads is essential

Partner Content  Organizations are increasingly shifting their deployments to the cloud due to its many benefits over traditional on-premises solutions.…

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Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks

The Register - Tue, 28/01/2025 - 14:02
Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right?

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.…

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Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS

The Register - Tue, 28/01/2025 - 08:17
Cupertino kicks off the year with a zero-day

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.…

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US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

The Register - Mon, 27/01/2025 - 22:16
Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says

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.…

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