"Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds."

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'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

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by Jessica Lyons / 15h

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Azure faces massive DDoS attack

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds

Weak passwords remain a problem

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by Connor Jones / 39min

They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 1d

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Clop hackers breach Logitech data

PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

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Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

by Brandon Vigliarolo / 15h

Ready, aim, mire Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …

Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

by Jessica Lyons / 17h

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…

Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle

Five plead guilty in North Korea scheme

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 19h

Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…

Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

by Carly Page / 21h

Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or

Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations

by Carly Page / 22h

Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…

Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack

by Connor Jones / 1d

Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

by Carly Page / 1d

Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…

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Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

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by Simon Sharwood / 1d

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JLR cyberattack slows UK GDP growth

PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more Asia In Brief India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).…

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