Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act –…
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Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack…
Nissan to alert 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis about data loss incident
Akira ransomware crooks brag of stealing thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack…
Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M
A $2M drop from previous year. So … things are more secure? Google awarded $10 million to 632 bug hunters last year through its vulnerability reward programs.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff
Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months
27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.… This article…
Researchers jimmy OpenAI’s and Google’s closed models
Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI’s secrets Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.… This…
Reducing the cloud security overhead
Why creating a layered defensive strategy that includes security by design can help address cloud challenges Sponsored Feature The world is filled with choices. Whether it’s the 20 different types of shampoo on offer at the grocery store, or the…
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities – none listed as under active attack…
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints
Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for “brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct” – and by that, they mean…
Biden’s budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B
Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA’s total budget to $3 billion.… This article has been indexed…
Biden’s budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3b
Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA’s total budget to $3 billion.… This article has been indexed…
JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers
War of words wages on between vendors divided Last week, we wrote about how security outfit Rapid7 threw JetBrains, the company behind the popular CI/CD platform TeamCity, under the bus over allegations of silent patching. Now, JetBrains has gone on…
UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush
Targeting recovery this week, officials still trying to ‘dentify the nature of the incident’ Leicester City Council says IT systems and a number of its critical service phone lines will remain down until later this week at the earliest following…
French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS
Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects Several French government websites have been disrupted by a severe distributed denial of service attack.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: French government sites…
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers’ pain
US senator calls cyber attack ‘inexcusable,’ calls for mandatory security rules The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers’ pain after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, by expediting payments…
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
Don’t worry, we have a strong suspicion Putin’s still gonna win The Kremlin has accused the United States of meddling in Russia’s upcoming presidential election, and even accused Uncle Sam of planning a cyberattack on the country’s online voting system.……
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.… This article has been indexed from The…
How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
And does it count as consent? The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on “consent or pay” business models. We’re sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.… This article has been…
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability
PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the “holy grail” of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond…