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France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French
The French government has tabled an offer to buy key assets of ailing IT giant Atos after the company late last week almost doubled its estimate of the cash it will need to stay afloat in the near future.…
UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords
Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to break into hardware such as phones and tablets.…
Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google's Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed its plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome until 2025.…
The next step up for high-impact identity authorization
Sponsored Feature As business enters the 2020s, organizations find themselves protecting fast-expanding digital estates using security concepts that are decades old.…
Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on millions of users
Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet – as it was recently and swiftly dismantled after its existence and purpose became known.…
Kaiser Permanente shared 13.4M people's data with Microsoft Bing, Google, others
Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely shared with Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…
Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3B
Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.…
UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition
The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and will become law.…
Four trends to top the CISO’s packed agenda
Sponsored Post Ever get nostalgic for the good old days of cybersecurity protection? When attacks were for the most part amateurish and infrequent, and perhaps more in the nature of an occasional nuisance rather than a daily existential threat?…
Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim
Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.…
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip
Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'
The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…
Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting
Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers
It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…
What to do in the age of the critical breach
The UK government could be forgiven for wanting to forget March 2024 ever happened.…
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.…
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors
The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism.…
Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.…
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.…
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.…