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Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.… This…
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships
BAE’s sub hunter production line warms up – shame it’s not for Britain Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction of the…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off
Don’t worry, there’s a twist at the end Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn’t pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
Trust and believe – AI models trained to see ‘legal’ doc as super legit Researchers at security firm Pangea have discovered yet another way to trivially trick large language models (LLMs) into ignoring their guardrails. Stick your adversarial instructions somewhere…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs Internet traffic to government domains often flows across borders, relies on a worryingly small number of network connections, or does not require encryption, according to new research.… This article has been…
WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’
PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta’s WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.”… This…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots
The admin controls were left wide open on Pudu’s robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.……
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials
Look who’s visiting the watering hole these days Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia’s APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.… This article has been indexed…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug
Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of an authentication bypass…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout
Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further Senior officials are being summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations made in a secret…
FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned ‘nearly every American’
Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber…
Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry’s efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.… This article has been indexed…
DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America
Our drones are OK, but those other drones? The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones. … This article has been indexed from The Register –…
FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9
$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.… This article has been indexed…
How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out
‘The homeland is no longer secure,’ says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn’t doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling…
16 billion credentials exposed: why your business needs a password manager now
Your passwords may already be at risk. Partner Content Ever felt that gut punch after losing something important, like your house keys? Now picture those, along with 184 million others, resting in plain sight at the wildest equivalent of Comic-Con…
SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot
Regulator points to lack of ‘basic access controls’ between internet-facing systems, internal network South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open…
Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches
Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is…