Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels
Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 |
Cybersecurity Month
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Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough
Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 |
X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year
Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 35
Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned
Good news: There's a free scanner to check your kit. Bad news: Still no fix
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2023 | 4
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 12
Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover
Looks to be related to critical libwebp bug found — and fixed — last month
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 5
Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs
Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 18
EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states
What could possibly go wrong?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 80
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 11
Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance
They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38
Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms
Turns out secrecy doesn't breed security
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 26
Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data
House always wins, er, wait ...
Cybersecurity Month12 Oct 2023 | 10
Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole
Meanwhile, Exchange Online is on the fritz
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 13
CISOs' salary growth slows – with pay gap widening
We still doubt any infosec leaders will be going without heating this winter
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 1
From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
Feature IT folks look back on 20 years of what is now infosec tradition
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 17
Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software
PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 14
Vietnam accused of Predator spyware attack on EU and US politicians
Awkward, seeing as the US and Vietnam just announced a refreshed relationship
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2023 | 1
FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year
Internet considered harmful
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2023 | 67
Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration
Analysis The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 16
Popular
Raspberry Pi 5: Hot takes and cooler mistakes
How does the device fare as a daily driver, and is cooling really optional?
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off
Epic redundancies all round
Windows 10's latest update issue isn't a bug but a feature – to test your patience
Some attempted installations of KB5031356 were reportedly stuck on 30% after 24 hours
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP
British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%
Domestic jets can use 'municipal solid waste' to fly the friendly skies
Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards
Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo
LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most
Time to update that resume on, er ... oh.
China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default
Beijing set big targets for next-gen networks, but adoption stats suggest it's falling short
Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers
Sorry, 'CyberBeers'
Tell me Huawei: Chinese giant wants to know what made EU label it high security risk
Files official complaint as it battles to keep market share
STORIES
China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears
Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle
Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2023 | 12
Improving defense of US space assets isn't rocket science. Oh wait
Can Booz Allen Hamilton get systems engineered with $630M and 7 years?
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 4
Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei
Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today
Updated Americans are used to drills :(
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62
North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware
LightningCan evades infosec tools in new and interesting ways
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 4
Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator
Putin Zuck out of business is one goal of this repeat effort to close off internet tunnels
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 39
Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets
As Qualcomm warns of similar fixes coming for its chips
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware
Just because you're paranoid…
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 | 8
Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses
CYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2023 |
US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors
Updated End-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 9
Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry
Better late than never, we guess
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2023 | 6
Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers
Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results
Cybersecurity Month26 Sep 2023 | 21
Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist
Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital
Cybersecurity Month25 Sep 2023 | 37
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware
Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6
ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network
IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 4
US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation
National defense files can earn you $55K … and espionage charges
Cybersecurity Month21 Sep 2023 | 15
Biting the hand that feeds IT
