Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? China’s cyberspies quietly broke into a Russian IT service provider in what researchers say is a rare example of Beijing turning its digital gaze on Moscow.… This article has been indexed…
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Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail The latest security feature for Gmail enables users to recover their accounts with a little help from their friends.… This article has been indexed from The…
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – ‘our highest ever’ score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code Microsoft has patched an ASP.NET Core vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.9, which security program manager Barry Dorrans said was “our highest ever.”…
Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency
Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching US Senator Bill Cassidy has fired off a pointed letter to Cisco over the firewall flaws that allegedly let hackers breach “at least…
Auction house Sotheby’s finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems Auction house Sotheby’s says it was breached on July 24, and those behind the intrusion stole an unspecified amount of data, including Social Security numbers and financial account information.… This article has…
Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work
GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job ai-pocalypse The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute…
Machine learning meets malware: how AI-powered ransomware could destroy your business
How to avoid your business being felled by an AI-powered ransomware attack that costs less than a laptop. Passwork KNP Logistics Group, a British transport company from Northamptonshire that’s been around longer than the mass-produced lightbulb, collapsed after a devastating…
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could…
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6…
Asahi breach leaves bitter taste as brewer fears personal data slurped
Japan’s beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results Asahi’s cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month’s attack.… This article has…
Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won’t fully roll out for several months Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.… This article has been indexed from The…
Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens
Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.……
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases…
EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union’s new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague’s international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year
‘We will never stop,’ say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective – compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings – announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI’s…
Microsoft ‘illegally’ tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their…
China probes Qualcomm’s Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions
Beijing insists it’s business as usual – Washington might see it differently China’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm’s purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.… This…
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears
Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia – a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain’s Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures…
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t exist
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK’s Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.… This article has been indexed…
Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers’ trap
Forescout’s phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed – via…