All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that “as with any software, extensions can…
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From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What’s up with the Kaspersky US ban?
It’s been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures…
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
‘Substantial proportion’ of America to get a note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients’ data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back in February – and for…
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky’s top bosses – but not Mr K himself
Here’s America’s list of the supposedly dirty dozen Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky.… This article has been…
Phoenix UEFI flaw puts long list of Intel chips in hot seat
Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware is threatening the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar fashion to BlackLotus and others like it.… This article…
Why attack surfaces are expanding
Insights from Cloudflare Webinar In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, understanding why attack surfaces are expanding is more critical than ever.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Why attack surfaces are expanding
Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider
At least they didn’t get paid their $50 million ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs to pathology services provider…
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites
If Putin likes jammin’, we hope NATO likes jammin’ too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by “harmful interference” from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.… This article has been…
Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach
Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers’ personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API…
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients’ records in cyber-attack
Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack.… This article has been indexed from The…
Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America
Blockade begins July 20 over national security fears Breaking news The Biden administration has banned the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States, arguing the Russian biz is a national security risk.… This article has been indexed from The…
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid ‘cyber incident’
Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing “cyber incident” has forced it to pull systems offline for a second time in as…
Crypto exchange Kraken accuses blockchain security outfit CertiK of extortion
Researchers allegedly stole $3M using the vulnerability, then asked how much it was really worth Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has accused a trio of security researchers of discovering a critical bug, expoliting it to…
Russia’s cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence A fresh report into the Nobelium offensive cyber crew published by France’s computer emergency response team (CERT-FR) highlights the group’s latest tricks as the country prepares for a major…
Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals
Cybercriminals claim they used a zero-day to breach pathology provider’s systems Interview The ransomware gang responsible for the current healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about the attack, which was entirely deliberate, it told The Register…
Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into user accounts, derailing email addresses
Rail company goes full steam ahead with notification letters to Rewards customers about spilled card details and more US rail company Amtrak is writing to users of its Guest Rewards program to inform them that their data is potentially at…
That PowerShell ‘fix’ for your root cert ‘problem’ is a malware loader in disguise
Control-C, Control-V, Enter … Hell Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell scripts. … This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Rogue uni IT director pleads guilty after fraudulently buying $2.1M of tech
Two decades in the clink, $250K fine, or both will be quite an education A now-former IT director has pleaded guilty to defrauding the university at which he was employed, and a computer equipment supplier, for $2.1 million over five…
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
If you call ‘client-side scanning’ something like ‘upload moderation,’ it still undermines privacy, security On Thursday, the EU Council is scheduled to vote on a legislative proposal that would attempt to protect children online by disallowing confidential communication.… This article…
Dark-web kingpin puts ‘stolen’ internal AMD databases, source code up for sale
Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now AMD’s IT team is no doubt going through its logs today after cyber-crooks put up for sale what is claimed to be internal data stolen from the US microprocessor…