March 2024
Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats
Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year Feature Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation's ability to counter these…
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker
Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.…
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
/* Hope no one ever reads these functions lmao */ NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for "all relevant spyware" with Meta's WhatsApp.…
Iranian charged over attacks against US defense contractors, government agencies
$10M bounty for anyone with info leading to Alireza Shafie Nasab's identification or location The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and attempting to infiltrate US defense contractors and multiple government…
In the vanguard of 21st century cyber threats
Everything you need to know about quantum safe encryption Webinar The quantum threat might seem futuristic, more like something you'd encounter in a science fiction film. But it's arguably already a danger to real cyber security defences.…
Cops visit school of ‘wrong person’s child,’ mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for…
Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats
How zero trust controls and Google AI can strengthen your organization’s defences Webinar Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they…
NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak
No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to 9.28 million…
GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks
Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to GitHub and expanded to reach at least 100,000 compromised repositories.…