Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix Fintech biz Block is reportedly under investigation by US prosecutors over claims by a former employee that lax compliance checks mean its Square and…
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Infosec biz boss accused of BS’ing the world about his career, anti-crime product, customers
Intrusion investors went through Blount farce trauma, says SEC Jack Blount, the now-ex CEO of Intrusion, has settled with the SEC over allegations he made false and misleading statements about his infosec firm’s product as well as his own background…
US charges 16 over ‘depraved’ grandparent scams
Vulnerable elderly people tricked into paying tens of thousands over fake car accidents Sixteen people are facing charges from US prosecutors for allegedly preying on the elderly and scamming them out of millions of dollars.… This article has been indexed…
Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts
Issue now resolved and isn’t thought to be the work of criminals Aussie airline Qantas says its app is now stable following a data breach that saw boarding passes take off from passengers’ accounts.… This article has been indexed from…
Open source programming language R patches gnarly arbitrary code exec flaw
An ACE in the hole for miscreants The open source R programming language – popular among statisticians and data scientists for performing visualization, machine learning, and suchlike – has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS…
Open source programming language R patches critical arbitrary code exec flaw
An ACE in the hole for miscreants The open source R programming language has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS severity rating of 8.8 out of 10.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Cyber-bastard jailed for stealing psychotherapy files, blackmailing patients
Vastaamo villain more than doubled reported crime in Nordic nation A cyber-thief who snatched tens of thousands of patients’ sensitive records from a psychotherapy clinic before blackmailing them and then leaking their files online has been caged for six years…
UnitedHealth CEO: ‘Decision to pay ransom was mine’
Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will tell US lawmakers Wednesday the cybercriminals who hit Change Healthcare with ransomware used stolen credentials to remotely access a Citrix portal…
NSA guy who tried and failed to spy for Russia gets 262 months in the slammer
Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85K A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to do freelance as a Russian spy.… This article has been indexed from…
NSA employee who tried and failed to spy for Russia gets 262 months in the slammer
Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85k A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to do freelance as a Russian spy.… This article has been indexed from…
European Commission starts formal probe of Meta over election misinformation
Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by “foreign actors” of political misinformation before June’s European elections.… This article has been indexed from…
Apple’s ‘incredibly private’ Safari is not so private in Europe
Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web Apple’s grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential…
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people’s location info
Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it – the data brokers The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for “illegally” selling subscribers’ location information to data brokers.… This article has been indexed from…
Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law
Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following ‘cybersecurity incident’
Canadian stores shuttered ‘until further notice’ Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all of its stores until further notice following a “cybersecurity incident.”… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: London Drugs…
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French
Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant’s ‘sovereign activities’ The French government has tabled an offer to buy key assets of ailing IT giant Atos after the company late last week almost doubled its estimate of the cash…
UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords
New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you’ll get updates too Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult…
Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries
Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google’s Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed…
Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on millions of users
ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data…
The next step up for high-impact identity authorization
How SSH Communications Security cuts through the hype around Zero Trust to secure the connections that matter Sponsored Feature As business enters the 2020s, organizations find themselves protecting fast-expanding digital estates using security concepts that are decades old.… This article…