Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti Patch Tuesday It’s that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but…
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Intel’s data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel’s defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the…
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
Air Force Dumb The Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish “palace in the sky” meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to…
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert
Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed An update that fixed a critical flaw in data protection biz Commvault’s Command Center was initially not available to a significant user subset – those testing out a free trial version…
‘We still have embeds in CISA’: CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart
Both agencies seem unbothered despite tech world’s clear concerns for US infoseccers CYBERUK The top brass from the UK’s cyber agency say everything is business as usual when it comes to the GCHQ arm’s relationship with CISA, amid growing unease…
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info
Market cap down by more than £1BN since April 22 Marks & Spencer has confirmed that customer data was stolen as part of its cyberattack, fueling conjecture that ransomware was involved.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
EUVD comes into play not a moment too soon The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and…
Türkiye-linked spy crew exploited a messaging app zero-day to snoop on Kurdish army in Iraq
‘MarbledDust’ gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than…
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028
Support for the underlying OS is another story Microsoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That’s well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond’s support…
CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email
Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon’s social network the new state media The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity…
Why aggregating your asset inventory leads to better security
Today’s complex IT environments demand a new approach Partner content For many organizations, managing IT assets is like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces. Despite massive investments in security tools and controls, many companies still have…
Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump’s deportation campaign
Intruders claim they stole GlobalX’s flight records and manifests GlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Britain’s cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software
Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they’d get it CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having…
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
We need to make taking IT systems ‘off the books’ a problem for corporate types Opinion It’s been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due…
DOGE worker’s old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps
PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you’re never safe; and more Infosec in brief Good cybersecurity habits don’t appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware.… This…
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
Rapid7 threat hunter told The Reg wrote a PoC. No he’s not releasing it RSAC If Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he’d innovate: CPU ransomware.… This article has been…
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants
The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US…
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
France’s share of MOD cash is growing while the US’s shrinks The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants
Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.… This article has…
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink
Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing.… This article has been…