Change your passwords. And maybe give the recycling a miss this time Freecycle, the charity aimed at recycling detritus that would otherwise be headed for landfill, has become the latest organization to suffer at the hands of cyber attackers and…
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Northern Ireland top cop quits in wake of data breach and disciplinary controversy
Simon Byrne faced backlash over FoI blunder, plus claims officers were ‘punished’ to appease Sinn Féin Northern Ireland’s police chief, Simon Byrne, resigned last night after an emergency meeting of the Policing Board amid discontent in the rank and file…
Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm’s Windows 7 rig
Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest The risk of running obsolete code and hardware was highlighted after attackers exfiltrated data from a UK supplier of high-security fencing for military bases. The initial entry point? A Windows 7 PC.… This…
Tsunami watch
Mitigating the threat of bot-driven DDoS attacks Webinar It’s sometimes easy to be lulled into a sense of false security and imagine that your organization or business will not become a target of highly professional cybercriminals, hacktivists and even nation-state…
Microsoft calls time on ancient TLS in Windows, breaking own stuff in the process
Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins Microsoft has reminded users that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will soon be disabled by default in Windows.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Microsoft calls…
Northern Irish cops release 2 men after Terrorism Act arrests linked to data breach
Came in wake of the force publishing their own people’s data in botched FoI Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to a Freedom of Information request,…
Apple opens annual applications for free hackable iPhones
ALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week’s critical vulns Infosec in brief The latest round of Apple’s Security Research Device (SRD) program is open, giving security researchers a chance to get…
Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tons of coke into Europe
Big blow to blighters’ blow-by-the-boatload blueprint Video Efforts by cops to seize and shut down encrypted messaging apps favored by criminals, and then mine their conversations for evidence, appear to have led to more arrests — plus the seizure of…
More Okta customers trapped in Scattered Spider’s web
Oktapus phishing campaign criminals are back in action Customers of cloudy identification vendor Okta are reporting social engineering attacks targeting their IT service desks in attempts to compromise user accounts with administrator permissions.… This article has been indexed from The…
Massive attack
Defeating a DDoS swarm Webinar Any organization can lose service, revenue, and reputation as a result. If you are particularly unlucky, a DDoS attack can defenestrate your network defences. You may find yourself facing an cyber criminal who wants to…
Good news for Key Group ransomware victims: Free decryptor out now
That’s what we call a static shock Even ransomware operators make mistakes, and in the case of ransomware gang the Key Group, a cryptographic error allowed a team of security researchers to develop and release a decryption tool to restore…