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Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info

by Laura Dobberstein / 8h

Organized crime types tend not to be kind to those who go against them, so this is nasty A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has apologized after experiencing an incident it fears may have led to a leak of personal information describing 2,500 people who reached out to it for consultation.…

How to master endpoint security

by Annaliese Ingrams / 2h

Get some advice from this discussion with a Kaseya expert Webinar Want to access the key takeaways from the recent "Secure Everything for Every Endpoint" webinar?…

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government

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Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish Japan's National Consumer Affairs Center on Wednesday suggested citizens start "digital end of life planning" and offered tips on how to do it.…

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SafePay ransomware gang claims Microlise attack that disrupted prison van tracking

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SafePay ransomware targets Microlise data

Fledgling band of crooks says it stole 1.2 TB of data The new SafePay ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack on UK telematics biz Microlise, giving the company less than 24 hours to pay its extortion demands before leaking data.…

Here's what happens if you don't layer network security – or remove unused web shells

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by Jessica Lyons / 12h

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CISA warns of critical infrastructure risks

TL;DR: Attackers will break in and pwn you, as a US government red team demonstrated The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency often breaks into critical organizations' networks – with their permission, of course – to simulate real-world cyber attacks and thereby help improve their security. In one of those recent exercises conducted at a critical infrastructure provider, the Agency exploite

DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged

by Thomas Claburn / 18h

VotingWorks, developer of the system, disputes critics' claims An electronic voting project backed by DARPA – Uncle Sam's boffinry nerve center – to improve the process of absentee voting for American military personnel stationed abroad has been slammed by security researchers.…

Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest

Chinese ship suspected in cable sabotage

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by Lindsay Clark / 20h

Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal' The Danish military has confirmed it is tracking a Chinese ship that is under investigation after two optical fiber internet cables under the Baltic Sea were damaged.…

'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart server utility for 10 years

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by Connor Jones / 23h

Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, are 'easily exploitable' Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in the Linux world's needrestart utility that allow unprivileged local attackers to gain root access without any user interaction.…

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'

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by Lindsay Clark / 1d

Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online platforms and social media – with one telling exception.…

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Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists

Five charged in Scattered Spider scheme

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by Iain Thomson / 1d

DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools The US Department of Justice has issued an indictment that names five people accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency – and we are told they are suspected members of cyber-gang Scattered Spider.…    

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