April 16, 2025
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone
Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter? CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a…
Identifying the cyber risks that matter
From noise to clarity: Why CISOs are shifting to adversarial exposure validation Partner content A vast majority of security teams are overwhelmed by the large number of security alerts and vulnerabilities.…
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
Uncertainty is the new certainty In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.…
Law firm ‘didn’t think’ data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it’s nursing a £60K fine
DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.…
Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite
Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…
Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find ‘insurance’ ‘policy’ in your files
It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? Updated US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…