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Alert says financial account information lifted from systems Auction house Sotheby's says it was breached on July 24, and those behind the intrusion stole an unspecified amount of data, including Social Security numbers and financial account information.…
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Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned Lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are helping three US labor unions sue the Trump administration over a social media surveillance program that threatens to punish those who publicly express views that are not harmonious with the government's position.…
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Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker Major car, van, truck and bus manufacturers are warning that the Dutch government placing semiconductor biz Nexperia under special administrative measures could result in a shortage of automotive chips.…
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CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency Aram Hovespyan, co-founder and CEO of security biz Codific, says that the rating systems for identifying security vulnerabilities and assessing threat risk need to be overhauled.…
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by Carly Page / 22h
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? China's cyberspies quietly broke into a Russian IT service provider in what researchers say is a rare example of Beijing turning its digital gaze on Moscow.…
by Connor Jones / 1d
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail The latest security feature for Gmail enables users to recover their accounts with a little help from their friends.…
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code Microsoft has patched an ASP.NET Core vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.9, which security program manager Barry Dorrans said was "our highest ever." The flaw is in the Kestrel web server component and enables security bypass.…
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by Carly Page / 1d
Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching US Senator Bill Cassidy has fired off a pointed letter to Cisco over the firewall flaws that allegedly let hackers breach "at least one federal agency."…
by Lindsay Clark / 1d
GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job ai-pocalypse The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE).…
Oct 15, 2025
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by Eirik Salmi, system analyst, Passwork / 1d
How to avoid your business being felled by an AI-powered ransomware attack that costs less than a laptop. Partner Content KNP Logistics Group, a British transport company from Northamptonshire that’s been around longer than the mass-produced lightbulb, collapsed after a devastating security breach that left more than 700 employees jobless. The 158-year-old firm fell victim to a ransomware attack.
by Connor Jones / 1d
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…
by Connor Jones / 2d
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.…
Oct 14, 2025
by Carly Page / 3d
Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.…
by Connor Jones / 3d
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.…
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by Carly Page / 3d
Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.…
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…
Oct 13, 2025
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…
'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…
by Joe Fay / 4d
Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.…
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…
Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings The Dutch government has placed Nexperia - a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain's Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious governance failures that threaten European tech security.…
Oct 10, 2025
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29by Connor Jones / 7d
Forescout's phony water plant fooled TwoNet into claiming a fake cyber victory – then it quietly shut up shop Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed - via their Telegram group - to be a real-world attack.…
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters , with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…
Oct 9, 2025
Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities.…
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