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11 Oct 2024
Zero-day flaw behind Rackspace breach still a mystery
By Arielle WaldmanMore than two weeks after threat actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party utility to breach Rackspace, the details about the flaw and the utility remain unknown.
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11 Oct 2024
European Commission commits €865m funding for 5G, fibre networks
By Joe O’HalloranLatest part of the Connecting Europe Facility sees huge investment to bring about fast, secure digital wireless and wired connectivity across EU member states
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself
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11 Jul 2024
Inside Israel’s cyber security operations
By Bill GoodwinAn 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
By Makenzie HollandVice 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
By Alexander CulafiA 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
By Cliff SaranMatt 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
By Rob WrightMicrosoft 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
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft 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
By Arielle WaldmanGovernment 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
By Alex ScroxtonChina’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
By Bill GoodwinThe 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
By Karl FlindersAtos 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
By Antony AdsheadTony’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
By Arielle WaldmanThe 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
By Alex ScroxtonMore 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
By Simon QuickeWith 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
By Simon QuickeSecurity 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
By Alex ScroxtonInternational 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
By Makenzie HollandThe 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
By Makenzie HollandThe 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
By Simon QuickeDistributors 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
By Arielle WaldmanExploitation 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
By Billy MacInnesAcquisition 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
By Alexander CulafiTeamViewer 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
By Aaron TanFWD’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
By Aaron TanRecorded 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
By Makenzie HollandMultiple 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
By Beth PariseauFormer 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
By Arielle WaldmanIn 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
By Simon QuickeChannel 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Beth PariseauA 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
By Alexander CulafiEvolve 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
By Arielle WaldmanProgress 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
By Simon QuickeSecurity 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
By Bill GoodwinIsrael’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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice 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
By Beth PariseauJFrog 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
By Alexander CulafiThe 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
By Simon QuickeDistributor’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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA 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
By Alex ScroxtonClinicians 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'
By Arielle WaldmanCorvus 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonNuclear 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
By Tommy GreeneA 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
By Cliff SaranWe 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
By Alexander CulafiThe 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
By Simon QuickeFirm 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLong-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
By Arielle WaldmanThe 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
By Alexander CulafiMultiple 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
By Rob WrightAmazon'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
By Simon QuickeThe 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
By Karl FlindersVictims 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'
By Beth PariseauSUSE 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDocuments 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
By Arielle WaldmanEPAM, 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
By Beth PariseauWeeks 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
By Alexander CulafiIn 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
By Paul CrocettiData 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
By Makenzie HollandWhile 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
By Alexander CulafiMicrosoft 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
By Antone GonsalvesApple 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
By Arielle WaldmanCriticism 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
By Simon QuickeFirm 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
By Rob WrightAWS 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
By Arielle WaldmanWhile 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
By Tim McCarthyExtended 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
By Alex ScroxtonAn 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
By Bill GoodwinThe 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
By Tom WalatA 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
By Alex ScroxtonPure 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
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant 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
By Simon QuickeChannel 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
By Alexander CulafiAccording 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
By Bryan GlickThe 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Makenzie HollandAs 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
By Bill GoodwinPSNI 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
By Alex ScroxtonRussian 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
By Alex ScroxtonBitdefender 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
By Aaron TanSophos 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
By Arielle WaldmanThreat 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
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
By Arielle WaldmanThe 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
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity 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
By Paul CrocettiVeeam 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Shaun SutnerMajor 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
By Alexander CulafiMicrosoft 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWebsites 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
By Alex ScroxtonA 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
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft 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
By Bill GoodwinPNSI 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
By Arielle WaldmanThe 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
By Arielle WaldmanAfter 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
By Alex ScroxtonBetween 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
By Alexander CulafiSnowflake 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
By Alex ScroxtonSignificant data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander appear to have been orchestrated through careful targeting of the victims’ Snowflake cloud data management accounts