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Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit
Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a "fake choice" between paying up and consenting to data collection.…
Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware
Chinese PC maker Acemagic has admitted some of its products shipped with pre-installed malware.…
Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure
The director general of security at Australia's Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has delivered his annual threat assessment, revealing ongoing attempts by adversaries to map digital infrastructure with a view to disrupting important services at delicate moments.…
ALPHV/BlackCat claims responsibility for Change Healthcare attack
The ALPHV/BlackCat cybercrime gang has taken credit – if that's the word – for a ransomware infection at Change Healthcare that has disrupted thousands of pharmacies and hospitals across the US, and also claimed that the amount of sensitive data stolen and affected health-care organizations is much larger than the victims initially disclosed.…
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly over its guardrails
Computer scientists at the University of Maryland have developed an efficient way to craft prompts that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).…
Palo Alto investor sues over 28% share tumble
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and hurt by an unexpectedly low billings forecast that crashed the share price.…
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data
US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia.…
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again
Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers – in the form of a warning that Russia may try again, so owners of the devices should take precautions.…
Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).…
Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT... jackpot
Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.…
Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers.…
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption
A law firm acting on behalf of the Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has asked a state court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) denying minors access to encrypted communication in Meta's Messenger application.…
ALPHV/BlackCat responsible for Change Healthcare cyberattack
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is reportedly responsible for the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack that has disrupted pharmacies across the US since last week.…
Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs
Updated LockBit claims it's back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang's servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption keys to assist victims.…
Everything you need to know about NIS2
Webinar The original European Union Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive certainly led to an improvement in member states' cybersecurity defences, but it struggled to do everything required as cyberattacks and threats scaled up with the growth in digitalization.…
Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite 'power imbalance'
A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure centers it runs.…
Fox News 'hacker' turns out to be journalist whose lawyers say was doing his job
in brief A Florida journalist has been arrested and charged with breaking into protected computer systems in a case his lawyers say was less "hacking," more "good investigative journalism." …
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
Systems Approach One refrain you often hear is that security must be built in from the ground floor; that retrofitting security to an existing system is the source of design complications, or worse, outright flawed designs.…