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Microsoft forgets about SwiftKey's support site

by Richard Speed / 56min

Injecting Copilot branding will not make TLS certificates auto-renew Another Microsoft certificate has expired, leaving SwiftKey users that are seeking support faced with an alarming certificate error.…

Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished

Avast decrypts DoNex ransomware

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by Connor Jones / 2h

Good riddance to another pesky tribe of miscreants Researchers at Avast have provided decryptors to DoNex ransomware victims on the down-low since March after discovering a flaw in the crims' cryptography, the company confirmed today.…

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals

Cancer patient faces surgery cancellation

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30by Connor Jones / 2d

Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen.

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Navigating Europe’s digital identity crossroads

by Contributed by Signicat / 6h

How to get ready for the future of digital identity in the European Union from eIDAS 1.0 to eIDAS 2.0 and beyond Partner Content : Opening a bank account, making or receiving a payment, instructing an accountant or booking a doctor's appointment. These everyday tasks depend on identity, either proving who you are or verifying who you're dealing with.…

Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts

by Laura Dobberstein / 9h

Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the pandemic forced more business to go digital. Some banks – and even governments – have begun requiring live images over Zoom or similar in order to participate in the modern economy. The

Not-so-OpenAI allegedly never bothered to report 2023 data breach

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 13h

Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It's been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to anybody outside the organization, and that its ChatGPT app for macOS was coded without any regard for user privacy.…

A decade after collapsing, crypto exchange Mt Gox repays some investors

Mt Gox repays investors Bitcoin

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by Simon Sharwood / 14h

Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly half a billion dollars worth of the digicash, likely as a result of its own shoddy software, has said it will start to repay some investors – in

JUL 5, 2024

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

Russia forces Apple remove VPNs

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by Matthew Connatser / 2d

Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles Updated At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin's internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple take them down.…

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler

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by Connor Jones / 3d

There's also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months.…

JUL 4, 2024

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard

by Connor Jones / 3d

Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.…

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