Canadian network box maker floats in denial 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.… This article has…
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Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list for flogging snoop-ware to Egypt
Canadian network box maker floats denial 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.… This article has been…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges 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…
Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot
Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.… This article has been…
Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home 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”…
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
Scammers’ tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting 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…
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta’s Messenger encryption
State government says it’s thinking of the children 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…
ALPHV/BlackCat responsible for Change Healthcare cyberattack
US government’s bounty hasn’t borne fruit as whack-a-mole game goes on The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is reportedly responsible for the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack that has disrupted pharmacies across the US since last week.… This article has been indexed from…
Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs
Officials have until March 2 to cough up or stolen data gets leaked 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…
LockBit back from the dead – taunts cops and plans to leak Trump docs
Countdown expires March 2 unless government officials pay the ransom 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…
Everything you need to know about NIS2
Get prepared for the EU’s upgraded cybersecurity directive 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…
Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite ‘power imbalance’
2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed ‘unlawfully’, ICO says 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…
Fox News ‘hacker’ turns out to be journalist whose lawyers say was doing his job
Also, another fake iOS app slips into the store, un-cybersafe EV chargers leave UK shelves, and critical vulns in brief A Florida journalist has been arrested and charged with breaking into protected computer systems in a case his lawyers say…
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
It takes only one bottleneck or single point of failure to ruin your week 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…
LockBit extorted billions of dollars from victims, fresh leaks suggest
Investigating LockBit’s finances has blown previous estimates of the operation’s wealth out of the water Authorities digging into LockBit’s finances believe the group may have generated more than $1 billion in ransom fees over its four-year lifespan.… This article has…
U-Haul tells 67K customers that cyber-crooks drove away with their personal info
Thieves broke into IT system using stolen login U-Haul is alerting tens of thousands of folks that miscreants used stolen credentials to break into one of its systems and access customer records that contained some personal data.… This article has…
LockBit identity reveal a bigger letdown than Game of Thrones Season 8
NCA still left enough for onlookers to wonder if there’s anything more to come The grand finale of the week of LockBit leaks was slated to expose the real identity of LockBitSupp – the alias of the gang’s public spokesperson…
Tips on meeting complex cloud security challenges
Learn about the benefits of applying advanced automation to policy management practices Webinar Dealing with the double trouble of relentless cyber threats and regular technology refresh cycles can stretch already overworked security practitioners. And orchestrating the transition to cloud-native applications…
X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India’s government
Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests The global government affairs team at X (née Twitter) has suspended some accounts and posts in India after receiving executive orders to do so from the country’s government, backed by threat of penalties…
Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people’s personal data
A name that’s commonly shouted by pirates might be a clue, me hearties! Avast has agreed to cough up $16.5 million after the FTC accused the antivirus vendor of selling customer information to third parties.… This article has been indexed…