It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don’t worry, we saw it A Houston-based services provider to healthcare organizations says a crook may have grabbed up to 400,000 people’s information after the miscreant accessed…
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Leveraging AI/ML for next-gen SOC environments
Technologies that help SOCs detect, analyze, and respond to emerging threats faster and more accurately Sponsored Post This article discusses some of the challenges traditional SOCs face and how integrating artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) modules could help solve the challenges…
Trump campaign arms up with ‘unhackable’ phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on ‘the best ever’ With less than a month to go before American voters head to the polls to choose their next president, the Trump campaign has been investing in secure tech to make sure…
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue More than 86,000 Fortinet instances remain vulnerable to the critical flaw that attackers started exploiting last week, according to Shadowserver’s data.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
How to head off data breaches with CIAM
Let Okta lift the lid on customer identity in this series of webinars Sponsored Post Recent reports suggest that stolen identity and privileged access credentials now account for 61 percent of all data breaches.… This article has been indexed from…
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? If we were to draw an infosec Venn diagram, with one circle representing “sensitive info that attackers would want to steal” and the other “limited resources plus difficult-to-secure IT environments,” education would sit in…
US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities
Also, phishing’s easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more in brief If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from the US and UK governments about a massive, ongoing…
INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good
Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 believe the INC ransomware crew is no more and recently rebranded itself as Lynx over a three-month period.… This article has been indexed from…
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge federal regulators to hold these…
RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims’ data
Roadside assistance biz praised for deploying security monitoring software and reporting workers to cops Two former workers at roadside assistance provider RAC were this week given suspended sentences after illegally copying and selling tens of thousands of lines of personal…
Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig
What’s harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates? Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Poppy Gustafsson as the UK’s new investment minister is being resoundingly praised despite the former Darktrace boss spending…
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week The FBI created its own cryptocurrency so it could watch suspected fraudsters use it – an idea that worked so well it produced arrests…
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India’s Star Health
Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online Leading Indian health insurance provider Star Health has admitted to being the victim of a cyber attack after criminals claimed they had posted records of 30-milion-plus clients online.……
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach. … This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Nearly 32 million records belonging to users of tech from Trackman were left exposed to the internet, sitting in a non-password protected database, for an undetermined amount of time,…
Secure your AI initiatives
Unlock the power of generative AI with AWS Webinar Generative AI (GenAI) has quickly transitioned from an emerging concept to a core driver of innovation across lots of different industries.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame
Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti products are now being exploited, earning them places in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.……
Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting
Firefixed: It’s maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw It’s patch time for Firefox fans as Mozilla issues a security advisory for a critical code execution vulnerability in the browser.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
How to enable secure use of AI
Let the SANS AI Toolkit promote secure and responsible use of AI tools in the workplace Sponsored Post It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month again this October – a timely reminder for public and private sector organisations to work together and raise…