‘Why not 12?’ says lawyer The UK is bracketing “intimate images shared without a victim’s consent” along with terror and child sexual abuse material, and demanding that online platforms remove them within two days.… This article has been indexed from…
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Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best
You told me not to write it on a Post-it… Bork!Bork!Bork! Today’s bork is entirely human-generated and will send a shiver down the spine of security pros. No matter how secure a system is, a user’s ability to undo an…
Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM Poland’s Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese cars – and any others include tech to record position, images, or sound – from entering protected military facilities.… This article has been…
Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China cars from military bases
Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM Poland’s Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese cars – and any others include tech to record position, images, or sound – from entering protected military facilities.… This article has been…
Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant
‘Potential data protection incident’ at an ‘independent licensing partner,’ we’re told Adidas has confirmed it is investigating a third-party breach at one of its partner companies after digital thieves claimed they stole information and technical data from the German sportswear…
ShinyHunters allegedly drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records
Latest in a rash of grab-and-leak data incidents CarGurus allegedly suffered a data breach with 1.7 million corporate records stolen, according to a notorious cybercrime crew that posted the online vehicle marketplace on its leak site on Wednesday.… This article has…
Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say
‘First time we have detected a crime using this method,’ cops say Spanish police arrested a hacker who allegedly manipulated a hotel booking website, allowing him to pay one cent for luxury hotel stays. He also raided the mini-bars and…
Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that its services were disrupted for…
Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
State disputes the company’s claim that its routers are made in Vietnam TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with “Made in Vietnam” claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing…
German train line back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that its services were disrupted for…
Your AI-generated password isn’t random, it just looks that way
Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Your AI-generated password isn’t…
Notepad++ declares hardened update process ‘effectively unexploitable’
Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project’s author claims makes the “update process robust and effectively unexploitable.”… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn’t want to be friends with Europe anymore Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken “just like an iPhone,” the Netherlands’ defense secretary has claimed.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
HackerOne ‘updating’ Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they’re training AI
CEO lauds security researchers, insists they’re not ‘inputs’ HackerOne has clarified its stance on GenAI after researchers fretted their submissions were being used to train its models.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next If enterprises are implementing AI, they’re not showing it to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who on Tuesday said business adoption of the tech…
China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using ‘ghost NICs’ to avoid detection
Full scale of infections remains ‘unknown’ China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It’s all part of a long-running effort to backdoor infected machines for long-term access,…
China remains embedded in US energy networks ‘for the purpose of taking it down’
Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well-known Beijing-backed crew – Volt Typhoon – continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into…
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is ‘false’ A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.… This article has been indexed from…
Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid
Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
UK.gov launches cyber ‘lockdown’ campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don’t stick to basic infosec standards Britain is telling businesses to “lock the door” on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven’t even found the latch.… This article…