Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn’t locked out after firing American healthcare provider Geisinger fears highly personal data on more than a million of its patients has been stolen – and claimed a former employee at a Microsoft subsidiary…
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If you’re using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately
Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect more than 100,000 websites with malware after a Chinese organization bought the domain earlier this year.… This article has been indexed from…
Fiend touts stolen Neiman Marcus customer info for $150K
Flash clobber chain fashionably late to Snowflake fiasco party Customer information said to have been stolen from Neiman Marcus’s Snowflake instance has been put up for sale on the dark web for $150,000.… This article has been indexed from The…
Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan
Business is more lucrative than you might think The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens.… This article has been…
CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities
Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness US cybersecurity agency CISA is urging high-risk chemical facilities to secure their online accounts after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal.… This article has been indexed from…
UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin’s ransomware shakedowns
Attacking the NHS is a very bad move UK and US cops have reportedly joined forces to find and fight Qilin, the ransomware gang wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Ransomware thieves beware
Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability Sponsored Feature You know that a technology problem is serious when the White House holds a summit about it.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Protect your network
Insights on expanding attack surfaces Webinar Stay ahead of cyber threats with our upcoming session on “Why attack surfaces are expanding,” brought to you by Cloudflare in partnership with The Register.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US
WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and ultimately off to home in Australia, if all goes to plan Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to just one count of…
Julian Assange freed in UK after agreeing to plead guilty to US charges
WikiLeaks boss already off from Blighty to ultimately Australia Breaking news Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to conspiracy charges brought against him by the United States.… This article has been…
Julian Assange freed after agreeing to plead guilty to US charges
WikiLeaks boss already off from the UK to ultimately Australia Breaking news Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to charges brought against him by the United States.… This article has been…
America’s best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good
‘Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal’ Analysis Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was – in the words of its drafters – “the best opportunity we’ve had in decades to establish a…
Ollama drama as ‘easy-to-exploit’ critical flaw found in open source AI server
About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we’re told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama – a popular open source project for running LLMs – can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of…
Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK
More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting.… This article has been…
‘Mirai-like’ botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices
Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public.… This article has…
Britain’s Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on ‘external advice’
Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming The UK government has been accused of blowing £174 million ($220 million) on “external advice” for a new radio system for the armed forces that has been beset by delays…
Levi’s and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches
A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain
Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end…
Techie took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error
Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another…
Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward
Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren’t; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the…