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17 Jan 2025
CMS releases final ACA marketplace payment notice for 2026
The 2026 updates to the ACA marketplace include calculation updates for risk adjustment, slight changes to cost-sharing reduction loading practices and more.
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17 Jan 2025
Treasury Department sanctions company tied to Salt Typhoon
The sanctions were in response to significant cyberattacks by Chinese nation-state threat groups against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure in recent months.
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17 Jan 2025
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
The US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
Security News from the past 365 days
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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.
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04 Jun 2024
Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites
Websites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent
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04 Jun 2024
NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack
A major cyber attack at NHS services provider Synnovis is disrupting frontline care at hospitals across London
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04 Jun 2024
Russia used fake AI Tom Cruise in Olympic disinformation campaign
Microsoft threat researchers report a surge in Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including AI-enhanced propaganda
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03 Jun 2024
Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers
PNSI chief constable appoints lawyer to conduct review into police phone surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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03 Jun 2024
Mandiant: Ransomware investigations up 20% in 2023
The cybersecurity company observed a sharp rise in activity on data leak sites in 2023 as well as an increase in ransomware actors using legitimate commercial tools during attacks.
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03 Jun 2024
Hugging Face tokens exposed, attack scope unknown
After detecting unauthorized access on its Spaces platform, Hugging Face disclosed that customer secrets might have been exposed and began revoking access tokens.
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03 Jun 2024
97 FTSE 100 firms exposed to supply chain breaches
Between March 2023 and March 2024, 97 out of 100 companies on the UK’s FTSE 100 list were put at risk of compromise following supply chain breaches at third-party suppliers
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03 Jun 2024
Snowflake: No evidence of platform breach
Snowflake on Saturday issued a joint statement with third-party investigators Mandiant and CrowdStrike denying reports that its platform had been breached.
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03 Jun 2024
Major breaches allegedly caused by unsecured Snowflake accounts
Significant data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander appear to have been orchestrated through careful targeting of the victims’ Snowflake cloud data management accounts
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03 Jun 2024
Sellafield local authority slammed over response to North Korean ransomware attack
The local authority for Europe’s biggest nuclear site has been slammed by auditors for its response to a North Korea-linked cyber attack that temporarily crippled its operations
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02 Jun 2024
Ticketek Australia hit by data breach
Customer names, dates of birth and email addresses of Ticketek Australia account holders reportedly impacted in latest data breach affecting event ticketing firm
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31 May 2024
Threat actor compromising Snowflake database customers
A threat actor tracked as UNC5537 is using stolen credentials against Snowflake database customers to conduct data theft and extortion attacks, cloud security firm Mitiga said.
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31 May 2024
Skills shortages exposing MSPs to security risks
Findings from Sophos research indicates that managed servicer providers are struggling to keep on top of industry developments
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31 May 2024
Law student ‘unfairly disciplined’ after reporting data breach blunder
A law student has accused a leading legal college of unethical behaviour and a “lack of integrity” after it brought misconduct proceedings against him when he reported a data security blunder
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30 May 2024
Law enforcement conducts 'largest ever' botnet takedown
An international law enforcement effort called 'Operation Endgame' disrupted several infamous malware loaders and botnets used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals.
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30 May 2024
Europol sting operation smokes multiple botnets
Malware droppers including Bumblebee and Smokeloader were among those targeted in one of the largest ever joint operations against cyber criminal botnets
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30 May 2024
CMA slammed for excluding public sector from UK cloud market antitrust user research
The Competition and Markets Authority is under fire for instructing the firm overseeing the user research part of its antitrust probe into the UK cloud infrastructure services market not to include public sector buyers
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29 May 2024
Storebrand divests from IBM over supply of biometrics to Israel
Norwegian asset manager Storebrand’s decision to divest from IBM comes amid growing scrutiny of the role technology companies play in Israel’s human rights abuses
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29 May 2024
Proofpoint exposes AFF scammers’ piano gambit
Ransomware and nation state actors dominate the headlines, but fraud and scams still net career cyber criminals thousands from unsuspecting members of the public. Proofpoint reports on a campaign targeting victims of a musical inclination
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29 May 2024
Check Point discovers vulnerability tied to VPN attacks
While Check Point identified CVE-2024-24919 as the root cause behind recent attack attempts on its VPN products, it's unclear if threat actors gained access to customer networks.
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29 May 2024
Organisations value digital trust, but aren’t working at it
Three quarters of organisations believe digital trust is relevant to their businesses, yet clear gaps in strategies still seem to persist
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29 May 2024
Interview: EU data chief Ulrich Ahle on obstacles to Europe’s digital single market
EU data scheme Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into Europe’s planned digital single market as opposition mounts to efforts to extend the reach of Europe’s vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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28 May 2024
Check Point warns of threat actors targeting VPNs
Check Point said threat actors were targeting a small number of customers by attempting to compromise local VPN accounts that only utilized passwords for authentication.
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28 May 2024
How AI could bolster software supply chain security
Supply chain risks have become more complicated and continue to affect a variety of organizations, but Synopsys' Tim Mackey believes AI could help create more secure software.
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28 May 2024
Executive Interview: Why Dell wants to be your one-stop AI shop
At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was the talk of the town as Dell staked out an all-encompassing strategy ahead of an anticipated goldrush. Dell’s Nick Brackney explains why the tech giant believes it's onto a winner
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28 May 2024
Why reliable data is essential for trustworthy AI
In little over two years, generative AI has changed the shape of the technology industry. Now is the time for proper due diligence
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28 May 2024
Westcon-Comstor continuing shift to software, services and subscriptions
Distributor Westcon-Comstor shares full-year results that underline the direction of travel and the benefits of a data-driven approach
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24 May 2024
Parliamentarians warn of UK election threat from Russia, China and North Korea
Joint parliamentary security committee chair Margaret Beckett writes to prime minister urging government to prepare for foreign states interfering with 4 July election
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23 May 2024
AI companies losing public trust in safety
Researchers find that more than half of Americans polled believe AI companies aren't considering ethics when developing the technology, and nearly 90% favor government regulations.
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23 May 2024
CISA executive director discusses CIRCIA, incident reporting
CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales speaks with TechTarget Editorial to discuss CIRCIA and the importance of incident reporting to the larger cybersecurity ecosystem.
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23 May 2024
93% of vulnerabilities unanalyzed by NVD since February
New research from VulnCheck shows the NIST's National Vulnerability Database has struggled to manage a growing number of reported vulnerabilities this year.
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23 May 2024
Northern Ireland police face £750,000 fine after data protection blunder put lives at risks
Information commissioner John Edwards uses discretion to reduce proposed fine from £5.6m to £750,000
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23 May 2024
Munich Re sees strong growth in AI insurance
Global reinsurance giant Munich Re expects more demand for AI insurance from organisations that are looking to manage the risks of AI as they experiment more with the technology