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Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official
PLUS: Google re-patches Quick Share flaws; Critical Cisco flaw exploited; WordPress plugin trouble; and more Infosec in Brief How did journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number end up in a Signal group chat? According to The Guardian, US national security adviser…
Trump fires NSA boss, deputy
Intelligence chief booted after less than two years on the job President Trump today fired the head of the NSA and US Cyber Command and his deputy.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?
The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization’s ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on…
Alan Turing Institute: UK can’t handle a fight against AI-enabled crims
Law enforcement facing huge gap in ‘AI adoption’ The National Crime Agency (NCA) will “closely examine” the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.… This article has been indexed…
Ex-ASML, NXP staffer accused of stealing chip secrets, peddling them to Moscow
We’re not Putin up with this alleged industrial espionage, say the Dutch A Russian national appeared in a Netherlands court on Thursday accused of industrial espionage against ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of chip factory equipment and a key supplier…
Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft
Australians checking their pensions are melting down call centres and websites Australian retirement fund operators are scrambling after reports emerged of unauthorized access to customer accounts leading to theft of cash.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth
Classification compliance? Records retention requirements? How quaint A US Department of Defense watchdog has opened an investigation into its own Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, over his use of instant-messaging app Signal to discuss government business.… This article has been…
Flux off: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security The US govt’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.… This article has been indexed…
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be a remote unauth code exec disaster Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in…
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
It’s going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row As Benjamin Franklin famously said: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and that’s especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.……
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to…
EU: These are scary times – let’s backdoor encryption!
ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent’s denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants…
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Recovery’s never been harder in today’s tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it’s not floods or fires causing most outages anymore –…
Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier
Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain’s Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with…
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
Double-oh-sh… The name’s not Bond. It’s O’Brien – Keith O’Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Raw…
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too ‘risky’
Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become “unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,” and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an…
Crimelords at Hunters International told lackeys ransomware too ‘risky’
Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become “unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,” and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an…
Don’t let cyberattacks keep you down
Learn how Infinidat’s enterprise cyber storage solutions can enable near-immediate recovery Sponsored Post It’s not a question of if your organization gets hit by a cyberattack – only when, and how quickly it recovers.… This article has been indexed from…
Oracle’s masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat
Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge…