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Read the clouds, reduce the cyber risk
Webinar In the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud - a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. But in our global business environment, there's no single defining feature to aid classification.…
23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms
Security in brief The saga of 23andMe's mega data breach has reached something of a conclusion, with the company saying its probe has determined millions of leaked records originated from illicit break-ins into just 14,000 accounts.…
VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure
Interview Monitoring biz VictoriaMetrics is relatively unusual in its field. It is yet to accept external investment, preferring instead to try to grow organically rather than being forced to through a private equity meat grinder by committing to grow by X every year until the investor exits.…
Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky
An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.…
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor
Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.…
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.…
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor
A trio of Polish security researchers claim to have found that trains built by Newag SA contain software that sabotages them if the hardware is serviced by competitors.…
Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets
Russia-backed attackers have named new targets for their ongoing phishing campaigns, with defense-industrial firms and energy facilities now in their sights, according to agencies of the Five Eyes alliance.…
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets
A series of attacks against Microsoft Active Directory domains could allow miscreants to spoof DNS records, compromise Active Directory and steal all the secrets it stores, according to Akamai security researchers.…
US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has signed a working arrangement with its EU counterparts to increase cross-border information sharing and more to tackle criminals.…
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients
More than 22,000 patients of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were hit by data leaks that took place between 2020 and 2021.…