Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else’s breach becomes your problem Discord has confirmed customers’ data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn’t its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.… This article…
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Jaguar Land Rover engines ready to roar again after weeks-long cyber stall
No confirmed date but workers expected to return in the coming days Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has…
Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings
Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers Infosec in brief On August 29, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency fired its CISO, CIO, and 22 other staff for incompetence but insisted it wasn’t…
Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft
Open source giant admits intruders broke into dedicated consulting instance, but insists core products untouched What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with…
Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat
Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement Apple has deep-sixed an app that tracks the movements of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – apparently bowing to government pressure.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control
Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security Munich Airport was temporarily closed last night following reports of drones buzzing around the area.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…
UK government says digital ID won’t be compulsory – honest
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says ‘steady on’ as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition…
Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved
Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing ‘thousands’ of orgs Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems.… This article has been indexed…
Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride
Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS…
Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims
Extortion emails name-drop Big Red’s E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive…
EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.… This…
Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files
570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat’s private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. … This article has been…
AI agent hypefest crashing up against cautious leaders, Gartner finds
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it’ll replace humans in next four years Enterprises aren’t keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is…
‘Delightful’ root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover
Who wouldn’t want root access on cluster master nodes? A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat’s OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.……
Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach
Uncle Sam can’t quit Redmond Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it’s investigating a “privacy-related issue” amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.… This…
US Air Force investigates ‘privacy-related issue’ amid rumored SharePoint shutdown
Uncle Sam can’t quit Redmond Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it’s investigating a “privacy-related issue” amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.… This…
3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America’s mailboxes
Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it’ll replace humans in next four years Enterprises aren’t keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is…