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…
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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…
Risk of getting malicious extension from Chrome store way worse than Google’s letting on, study suggests
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…
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…