Stolen credentials edge out email tricks for cloud break-ins because they’re so easy to get Criminals used stolen credentials more frequently than email phishing to gain access into their victims’ IT systems last year, marking the first time that compromised…
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Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
Bake in security now or pay later, says Mike Rogers AI engineers should take a lesson from the early days of cybersecurity and bake safety and security into their models during development, rather than trying to bolt it on after…
America’s cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot Opinion We almost lost the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database system, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg of what President Trump and company are doing…
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a loss for privacy but a win for web ad rivals After six years of work, Google’s Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in the wind.… This article has…
Two CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software
As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.… This…
Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks
In effect: ‘Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you’ Ransomware scumbags – potentially those behind the Fog gang – are channeling their inner Elon Musk with their latest ransom note, spotted by researchers at Trend Micro.……
A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product
Security bods can earn up to $10K per report Ransomware threat hunters can now collect rewards of $10,000 for each piece of intel they file under a new bug bounty that aims to squash extortionists.… This article has been indexed…
This is not just any ‘cyber incident’ … this is an M&S ‘cyber incident’
Retailer tight-lipped on details as digital hiccup disrupts customer orders UK high street mainstay Marks & Spencer told the London Stock Exchange this afternoon it has been managing a “cyber incident” for “the past few days.”… This article has been…
UN says Asian scam call center epidemic expanding globally amid political heat
What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem Scam call centers are metastasizing worldwide “like a cancer,” according to the United Nations, which warns the epidemic has reached a global inflection point…
Bug hunter tricked SSL.com into issuing cert for Alibaba Cloud domain in 5 steps
10 other certificates ‘were mis-issued and have now been revoked’ Certificate issuer SSL.com’s domain validation system had an unfortunate bug that was exploited by miscreants to obtain, without authorization, digital certs for legit websites.… This article has been indexed from…
Today’s LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed
Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours The time from vulnerability disclosure to proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code can now be as short as a few hours, thanks to generative…
Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days
It’s now hitting govt, enterprise targets On March 11 – Patch Tuesday – Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector…
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here’s how it was probably done Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people…
Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI
Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk’s Grok? Yikes A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk’s cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use…
Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CISA – the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from…
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF? Comment The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: CVE fallout: The…
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked…
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes security clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked…
Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies
Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Brit soldiers tune radio waves to…
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America’s labor watchdog
Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the…