CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the…
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Uncle Sam ends financial support to orgs hurt by Change Healthcare attack
Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over The US government is winding down its financial support for healthcare providers originally introduced following the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare in February.… This article has been indexed from…
NHS boss says Scottish trust didn’t meet attackers’ demands
CEO of Dumfries and Galloway admits circa 150K people should assume their details leaked The chief exec at NHS Dumfries and Galloway will write to thousands of folks in the Scottish region whose data was stolen by criminals, admitting the…
VMware by Broadcom warns of two critical vCenter flaws, plus a nasty sudo bug
Specially crafted network packet could allow remote code execution and access to VM fleets VMware by Broadcom has revealed a pair of critical-rated flaws in vCenter Server – the tool used to manage virtual machines and hosts in its flagship…
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time
‘TikTag’ security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile In 2018, chip designer Arm introduced a hardware security feature called Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) as a defense against memory safety bugs. But it may not be as effective as first hoped.……
Suspected bosses of $430M dark-web Empire Market charged in US
Dopenugget and Zero Angel may face life behind bars if convicted The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges related to owning and…
Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam
Pen-testing tools didn’t work – and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines Two consulting firms, Guidehouse and Nan McKay and Associates, have agreed to pay a total of $11.3 million to resolve allegations of…
Suspected dark-web Empire Market bosses charged in US
Dopenugget and Zero Angel said to have run $430M cyber-crime souk, may face life behind bars if convicted The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been…
Suspected underworld Empire Market bosses face possible life behind bars
Could this be curtains for Dopenugget and Zero Angel’s $430M cyber-crime souk? The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been detained on charges related to owning…
Feds cuff suspected bosses of underworld Empire Market
Could this be curtains for Dopenugget and Zero Angel’s $430M cyber-crime souk? The two alleged administrators of Empire Market, a dark-web bazaar that peddled drugs, malware, digital fraud, and other illegal stuff, have been arrested on charges related to owning…
Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack
Four years on and it’s still paying for what California attorney general calls ‘unacceptable’ practice Months after escaping without a fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the luck of cloud software biz Blackbaud ran out when it came…
Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader
Spanish cops make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy Spanish police arrested a person they allege to be the leader of the notorious cybercrime gang Scattered Spider just before he boarded a private flight headed to Naples.……
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you …
The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? Heads up: Amazon Web Services is pushing ahead with making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for certain users, and we love to see it.… This article has been indexed from The…
UK’s Total Fitness exposed nearly 500k images of members and staff through unprotected database
Health club chain headed for the spa on choose a password day A security researcher claims UK health club and gym chain Total Fitness bungled its data protection responsibilities by failing to lock down a database chock-full of members’ personal…
Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 attacks vSphere and Azure to run VMs inside victims’ infrastructure
Who needs ransomware when you can scare techies into coughing up their credentials? Notorious cyber gang UNC3944 – the crew suspected of involvement in the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, and plenty more besides – has changed its…
That didn’t take long: replacement for SORBS spam blacklist arises … sort of
ALSO: online adoption cyberstalker nabbed; Tesla trade secrets thief pleads guilty; and a critical ASUS Wi-Fi vuln In Brief A popular spam blocklist service that went offline earlier this month has advised users it is down permanently – but at…
Japan’s space junk cleaner hunts down major target
PLUS: Australia to age limit social media; Hong Kong’s robo-dogs; India’s new tech minister The space junk cleaning mission launched by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully hunted down one of its targets.… This article has been indexed from…
Microsoft answered Congress’ questions on security. Now the White House needs to act
Business as usual needs a real change Feature Microsoft president Brad Smith struck a conciliatory tone regarding his IT giant’s repeated computer security failings during a congressional hearing on Thursday – while also claiming the Windows maker is above the…
Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year
Because who needs disinformation research at times like these The Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which for the past five years has been studying and reporting on social media disinformation, is being reimagined with new management and fewer staff following the…
Meta won’t train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
Facebook parent calls step forward for privacy a ‘step backwards’ Meta has caved to European regulators, and agreed to pause its plans to train AI models on EU users’ Facebook and Instagram users’ posts — a move that the social…