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19 Dec 2024
Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2024
As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2024
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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
Security News from the past 365 days
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12 Jul 2024
AT&T breach affects 'nearly all' customers' call, text records
Fallout from the attacks on Snowflake customers continues as AT&T is the latest victim organization to disclose a data breach stemming from a compromised cloud instance.
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12 Jul 2024
Microsoft rolls out further partner incentives and support
Vendor uses inaugural digital event to outline where it’s hoping partners will focus and how it will support those efforts
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12 Jul 2024
AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach
Hackers have stolen records of virtually every call made by AT&T's customers during a six-month period in 2022, after compromising the US telco's Snowflake data environment
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12 Jul 2024
Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain
Consumers are improving their awareness of the issues around digital identity security, but there are still some big issues preventing many from doing better, according to an Okta report
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11 Jul 2024
Microsoft, Google make moves amid regulators' AI scrutiny
Microsoft is withdrawing stepping down from the OpenAI board. Google has reportedly disbanded its machine learning privacy team. Both vendors face investigations.
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11 Jul 2024
FTC, DOJ take aim at dark patterns with Adobe lawsuit
The FTC and DOJ's lawsuit against Adobe targets dark patterns by claiming that Adobe's allegedly difficult cancellation process traps consumers in unwanted subscriptions.
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11 Jul 2024
Ransomware gangs increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities
New research from Cisco Talos highlighted three of the most popular known vulnerabilities that were exploited by ransomware gangs for initial access during 2023 and 2024.
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11 Jul 2024
MSPs confident they can fend off cyber threat
Despite the ongoing targeting of the managed service community by cyber criminals, many feel confident about their position
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11 Jul 2024
Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future
In only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain
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11 Jul 2024
Inside Israel’s cyber security operations
An emergency phone line allows cyber security analysts at the Israel Computer Emergency Response Team to map threats against national infrastructure
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10 Jul 2024
Kamala Harris might alter big tech regulation
Vice President Kamala Harris' friendliness toward the tech sector could affect President Joe Biden's regulatory efforts if she replaces him as the Democratic presidential nominee.
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10 Jul 2024
Check Point sheds light on Windows MSHTML zero-day flaw
A Check Point Software Technologies researcher who discovered CVE-2024-38112 said the Windows spoofing vulnerability may have been exploited as far back at January 2023.
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10 Jul 2024
The security interview: Managing the ‘no’ mindset
Matt Riley, data protection and information security officer at Sharp Europe, discusses balancing cyber risks with business leaders’ goals
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09 Jul 2024
Microsoft fixes 2 zero-days in massive July Patch Tuesday
Microsoft disclosed and patched a whopping 142 vulnerabilities in a busy Patch Tuesday that included two zero-day flaws under active exploitation in the wild.
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09 Jul 2024
Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention
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09 Jul 2024
Governments issue warning on China's APT40 attacks
Government agencies say APT40 continues to pose significant risk to organizations across the globe by exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications.
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09 Jul 2024
Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks
China’s APT40 is ramping up targeting of victims using vulnerable small and home office networking kit as command and control infrastructure, according to an international alert
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09 Jul 2024
Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking
The general director of the Israel National Cyber Directorate talks about the rise in cyber attacks and what lessons the country has gleaned to defend against hacking from foreign parties
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09 Jul 2024
Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024
Atos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship
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09 Jul 2024
Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup
Tony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data
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08 Jul 2024
Ransomware hits CDK Global, public sector targets in June
The prevalent threat continued to cause disruptions last month as city halls were forced to close and auto dealerships faced downstream effects after an attack against CDK Global.
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08 Jul 2024
Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT
More cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning
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05 Jul 2024
Hopes Labour will support tech, improve security and drive innovation
With the dust settling on the election results and a fresh prime minister entering Downing Street, the tech industry is starting to share its hopes for the new government
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04 Jul 2024
SonicWall offers MSPs access to increased range of services
Security player arms partners with access to European-based SOC that will help them deal with EU compliance regulations
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03 Jul 2024
NCA’s Operation Morpheus targets illicit Cobalt Strike use
International law enforcement operation targets cyber criminals using the Cobalt Strike penetration testing framework for dodgy purposes
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03 Jul 2024
EU moves ahead while U.S. steps back on regulation
The European Commission found both Meta and Apple to be in violation of the Digital Markets Act.
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02 Jul 2024
Supreme Court rulings like Chevron hinder regulation
The Supreme Court's recent decisions including Chevron will limit federal agencies' regulatory power over businesses.
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02 Jul 2024
Westcon-Comstor and e92plus widen portfolios
Distributors are expanding and signing fresh relationships to get more options in front of their respective partner bases
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01 Jul 2024
Critical OpenSSH vulnerability could affect millions of servers
Exploitation against CVE-2024-6387, which Qualys nicknamed 'regreSSHion,' could let attackers bypass security measures and gain root access to vulnerable servers.
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01 Jul 2024
Northamber expands into Ireland
Acquisition of distributor Renaissance Contingency Services gives the firm an Irish presence
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28 Jun 2024
TeamViewer breached by Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard
TeamViewer says a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard gained accessed to the company's corporate network via compromised employee credentials.
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28 Jun 2024
How FWD is driving its digital strategy
FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services
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28 Jun 2024
How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence
Recorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence
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27 Jun 2024
Data privacy legislation delayed as backlash grows
Multiple stakeholders raised issues with the American Privacy Rights Act, including removal of protections against algorithmic auditing.
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27 Jun 2024
New Relic CEO sets observability strategy for the AI age
Former Proofpoint CEO sets an AI-focused agenda, including an Nvidia partnership launched this week, while denying layoff rumors and speculation about a merger with Sumo Logic.
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27 Jun 2024
Supply chain attacks conducted through Polyfill.io service
In February, a Chinese company named Funnell bought the Polyfill.io domain, which sparked concerns in the infosec community about potential supply chain threats.
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27 Jun 2024
CloudCoCo reports H1 results amid stabilisation efforts
Channel player is going through a review that should put it in a stronger financial position, but it’s business as usual in the meantime
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27 Jun 2024
Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand
The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations
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26 Jun 2024
Datadog DASH updates push into fresh IT automation turf
A series of product updates at Datadog DASH broke out of the vendor's usual observability domain and into territory held by Atlassian, PagerDuty and others.
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26 Jun 2024
LockBit claim about hacking U.S. Federal Reserve fizzles
Evolve Bank & Trust confirmed that it was affected by a cybersecurity-related incident, but has not yet said whether the LockBit ransomware gang was responsible.
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26 Jun 2024
MoveIt Transfer vulnerability targeted amid disclosure drama
Progress Software's MoveIt Transfer is under attack again, just one year after a Clop ransomware actor exploited a different zero-day MoveIt flaw against thousands of customers.
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26 Jun 2024
Goldilock builds out partner network
Security vendor adds distributors and resellers to increase UK, US and European coverage and to support its plans to go indirect
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26 Jun 2024
Israel’s cyber chief calls for international front against Iranian hackers
Israel’s cyber chief has called for international action against Iran over state-backed hacking
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26 Jun 2024
Police Scotland did not consult ICO about high-risk cloud system
Police Scotland chose not to formally consult with the data regulator about the risks identified with a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system, while the regulator itself did not follow up for nearly three months
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25 Jun 2024
JFrog buy bolsters MLOps combo with DevSecOps
JFrog plans to meld AI/ML development with established DevSecOps pipelines through the acquisition of Qwak in a bid to help more enterprise AI apps reach production.
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25 Jun 2024
CISA discloses breach of Chemical Security Assessment Tool
The breach, which CISA first disclosed in March, stemmed from Ivanti zero-day vulnerabilities that a Chinese nation-state threat actor first exploited in January.
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25 Jun 2024
ALSO Cloud UK: GenAI poses significant security risks
Distributor’s event shines light on the benefits and challenges faced by users looking to adopt the technology
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25 Jun 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed from prison
A deal reached with US authorities will end the WikiLeaks founder’s years-long legal saga, setting him free if he pleads guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge
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25 Jun 2024
NHS experts raise warning over patient data breach risk in registries project
Clinicians warn that the NHS England Outcome Registries Platform has poor security and is vulnerable to cyber attack, putting critical patient data at risk of being exposed
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24 Jun 2024
Corvus: Cyber insurance premiums see 'stabilization'
Corvus Insurance's Peter Hedberg provided insight into the cyber insurance landscape after a tumultuous 2023 and what enterprises can expect moving forward.
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24 Jun 2024
Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cyber security
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation Sellafield Ltd pleads guilty to criminal charges brought over significant cyber security failings that could have compromised sensitive nuclear information
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21 Jun 2024
Sellafield whistleblower ordered to pay costs after email tampering claims
A former consultant at Sellafield has been ordered to pay costs for having ‘acted unreasonably’ in claiming the nuclear facility tampered with metadata in letters used against her in court
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21 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang publishes stolen NHS data online
The ransomware gang behind a major cyber attack on NHS supplier Synnovis has published a 400GB trove of private healthcare data online
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21 Jun 2024
Executive interview: Open models pros and cons
We speak to Meta’s vice-president of AI research about recent publicly released research and models, and the role of closed AI models
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21 Jun 2024
Biden administration bans Kaspersky Lab products in US
The Biden administration announced a ban on Kaspersky Lab products inside the United States due to the antivirus vendor's ties with the Russian government.
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21 Jun 2024
Cato Networks cuts ribbon on managed SASE service
Firm is aiming to make life easier for those managing complex customer environments
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21 Jun 2024
Kaspersky says it can continue to sell cyber threat intelligence in spite of US ban
The US government is stopping Kaspersky Lab from offering its antivirus software and cyber security tools to US firms and citizens
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21 Jun 2024
ICO police cloud guidance released under FOI
Long-awaited guidance from the UK data regulator on police cloud deployments highlights some potential data transfer mechanisms it thinks can clear up ongoing legal issues, but tells forces it’s up to them to decide if the measures would work
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20 Jun 2024
SolarWinds Serv-U vulnerability under attack
The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium observed exploitation against CVE-2024-28995, a high-severity vulnerability in SolarWind's Serv-U file transfer product.
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20 Jun 2024
Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware bug affects Intel processors
Multiple Intel processors and hundreds of PC models are potentially vulnerable to a recently disclosed vulnerability in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware.
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20 Jun 2024
How Amazon's decision to ditch Active Directory paid off
Amazon's decision to build its own identity and access management system was an expensive one, but an infamous supply chain attack validated the move.
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20 Jun 2024
Thales driving channel integration after Imperva addition
The channel chief at Thales talks about the benefits of prioritising talking to the partner bases of both vendors with a single voice
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20 Jun 2024
Sir Alan Bates hits out at Post Office ‘incompetence’ after data breach
Victims of the scandal react with anger at news the Post Office published a document containing their names and addresses on its website
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19 Jun 2024
SUSE Rancher gears up amid VMware-Broadcom 'feeding frenzy'
SUSE Rancher bolsters its bid to capture users dissatisfied with Broadcom's changes to VMware with the acquisition of StackState and other updates to its Prime package.
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19 Jun 2024
Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data
Documents show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary
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18 Jun 2024
EPAM denies link to Snowflake customer attacks
EPAM, a Belarusian software company, said an investigation found no evidence that it was connected to recent attacks against Snowflake customer databases.
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17 Jun 2024
Post-lawsuit, Splunk and Cribl meet again in data pipelines
Weeks after a jury awarded Splunk $1 in its lawsuit against Cribl, the two vendors remain on a collision course, this time in the realm of data pipelines and federated analytics.
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17 Jun 2024
Alex Stamos on how to break the cycle of security mistakes
In an interview, SentinelOne's Alex Stamos discussed the importance of security by design and why it needs to be applied to emerging technologies, including generative AI.
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14 Jun 2024
Veeam executives discuss data protection trends, future IPO
Data protection trends include securing backups and planning for ransomware recovery. Veeam executives discuss these keys, plus why the 'data resilience company' can go public.
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14 Jun 2024
Tensions rise over China's control of critical materials
While there is disagreement in Congress over how to diversify the critical materials supply chain, there is bipartisan agreement that China's dominance needs to be addressed.
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14 Jun 2024
Congress grills Microsoft president over security failures
Microsoft President Brad Smith testifies on a wide range of issues, including Chinese and Russian nation-state attacks, the controversial AI-powered Recall feature and more.
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14 Jun 2024
Security pros grade Apple Intelligence data privacy measures
Apple has built a Private Cloud Compute server to process and then delete data sent from Apple Intelligence running on an iPhone, iPad or Mac. Apple says it won't store any data.
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13 Jun 2024
Microsoft's Recall changes might be too little, too late
Criticism of Microsoft's Recall feature continues even after the software giant announced several updates to address concerns from the infosec community.
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13 Jun 2024
Nebula achieves ISO security standard
Firm will use the certification to highlight its services capabilities to customers
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13 Jun 2024
Black Basta ransomware crew may be exploiting Microsoft zero-day
A Microsoft vulnerability that was addressed without fanfare in March may in fact have been exploited as a zero-day by the notorious Black Basta ransomware gang, threat hunters warn
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12 Jun 2024
AWS touts security culture, AI protections at re:Inforce 2024
AWS executives highlighted the company's longstanding security, which evoked comparisons to its chief cloud rival Microsoft and the recent Cyber Safety Review Board report.
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12 Jun 2024
Black Basta might have exploited Microsoft flaw as zero-day
While investigating a ransomware attack, Symantec found evidence that suggests Black Basta threat actors exploited a Microsoft vulnerability as a zero-day.
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12 Jun 2024
Acronis XDR expands endpoint security capabilities for MSPs
Extended detection and response capabilities for the Acronis platform can automatically lock accounts and generate incident summaries for MSPs looking for additional security.
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12 Jun 2024
RCE flaw and DNS zero-day top list of Patch Tuesday bugs
An RCE vulnerability in a Microsoft messaging feature and a third-party flaw in a DNS authentication protocol are the most pressing issues to address in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday
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11 Jun 2024
PSNI ran secret unit to monitor journalists’ and lawyers’ phones, claims former senior officer
The Police Service of Northern Ireland denies claims that its anti-corruption unit used a standalone computer to ‘avoid scrutiny and control’
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11 Jun 2024
Microsoft delivers 51 fixes for June Patch Tuesday
A critical remote-code execution flaw in Windows and a DoS vulnerability affecting DNS in Windows Server top the list of patching priorities for admins.
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11 Jun 2024
Pure Storage hit by Snowflake credential hackers
Pure Storage emerges as the latest victim of a fast-spreading breach of Snowflake customers targeting users with lax credential security measures in place
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11 Jun 2024
More than 160 Snowflake customers hit in targeted data theft spree
Mandiant reports that more than 160 Snowflake customers have been hit in a broad data theft and extortion campaign targeting organisations that have failed to pay proper attention to securing valuable credentials
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11 Jun 2024
FluidOne refinances to support growth ambitions
Channel player aims to treble the business in the next five years and reveals a fresh partnership to fund that ambition
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10 Jun 2024
Mandiant: 'Exposed credentials' led to Snowflake attacks
According to new threat research, Mandiant is reporting that UNC5537 conducted attacks against Snowflake database customers at least as early as April 14.
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10 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Liberal Democrats thread digital commitments throughout manifesto
The Lib Dems have promised a new industrial strategy and emphasised the importance of the digital sector, skills and regulating AI, as they lay out plans for the UK general election
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10 Jun 2024
NHS blood stocks running low after ransomware attack
The NHS is appealing for people with O Positive and O Negative blood types to come forward to donate as hospitals in London struggle to keep critical services running after ransomware attack
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07 Jun 2024
Businesses face growing patchwork of state AI laws
As U.S. states like Colorado pass their own AI laws, businesses will need to prepare compliance measures if they do business in those states.
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07 Jun 2024
Northern Irish police used covert powers to monitor over 300 journalists
PSNI publishes report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers, but Northern Ireland’s Policing Board says it does not give the assurances needed
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07 Jun 2024
DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections
Russian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process
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07 Jun 2024
Bitdefender makes MDR services free to NHS bodies hit by Qilin
Bitdefender offers NHS bodies affected by a major cyber incident free access to its product suite, as the health service continues to deal with the impact of the Qilin ransomware attack on partner Synnovis
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07 Jun 2024
Sophos uncovers Chinese state-sponsored campaign in Southeast Asia
Sophos found three distinct clusters of activity targeted at a high-level government organisation that appeared to be tied to Chinese interests in the South China Sea
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06 Jun 2024
Critical Progress Telerik vulnerability under attack
Threat actors are targeting vulnerable Progress Telerik Report Server systems just days after a proof of concept was published detailing a vulnerability exploit chain.
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06 Jun 2024
FBI finds 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in blow to criminal gang
The US authorities say they now have more than 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in their possession and are urging victims of the prolific ransomware gang to come forward
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06 Jun 2024
Ransomware ravaged schools and cities in May
The public sector took the brunt of ransomware in May, while another damaging attack against a healthcare company disrupted patient access to pharmacy services.
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05 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang likely behind crippling NHS attack
Security experts investigating a major cyber attack on an NHS partner that has caused frontline services across South London to grind to a halt say the Qilin ransomware gang appears to be the culprit
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05 Jun 2024
Veeam backup and security updates include cloud vault, copilot
Veeam products and services in the spotlight at the VeeamON 2024 user conference included secure backups in the cloud, a generative AI assistant and a new offering with Lenovo.
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04 Jun 2024
OAIC files civil penalty action against Medibank
The OAIC alleges that Medibank failed to take reasonable steps to protect the personal information of 9.7 million Australians in the October 2022 data breach
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04 Jun 2024
Vendors struggle to prevent GenAI use in child sexual abuse
Major large language model and image generation system vendors agree to work on limiting the ability of GenAI technology to create and spread child sexual abuse material.
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04 Jun 2024
Tenable warns of vulnerability in Azure service tags
Microsoft disagreed with Tenable's assessment, saying the security issue in Azure service tags is not a vulnerability and that additional authentication layers are required.