January 2025

Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional

'Public interest alone does not justify warrantless querying' says judge It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of people's private communications in America.…

One of Salt Typhoon’s favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers

But we mean, you've had nearly four years to patch One of the critical security flaws exploited by China's Salt Typhoon to breach US telecom and government networks has had a patch available for nearly four years - yet despite repeated warnings from law enforcement and private-sector security…

SonicWall flags critical bug likely exploited as zero-day, rolls out hotfix

Big organizations and governments are main users of these gateways SonicWall is warning customers of a critical vulnerability that was potentially already exploited as a zero-day.…

Meta’s pay-or-consent model under fire from EU consumer group

Company 'strongly disagrees' with law infringement allegations Meta has again come under fire for its pay-or-consent model in the EU.…

FortiGate config leaks: Victims’ email addresses published online

Experts warn not to take leaks lightly as years-long compromises could remain undetected Thousands of email addresses included in the Belsen Group's dump of FortiGate configs last week are now available online, revealing which organizations may have been impacted by the 2022 zero-day exploits.…

Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

Plus: 'Largest-ever' duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations' networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a world of hurt — and website downtime — and it's quite…

Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024

And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the number of tech firms incorporated in the UK has declined, with a shrinking economy, as well as high inflation and…