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Don’t be complacent on cybersecurity resilience
Read the 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index for tips on how best to prepare Sponsored Post Protecting sensitive data and mission-critical applications, systems and services from the unwanted attention of hackers and cyber criminals is never easy.…
Privacy group complains to UK regulator about Meta scraping user data to train AI
Move follows Instagram and Facebook owner's decision to reverse direction in EU after protests A UK data rights campaign group has launched a complaint with the data law regulator against Meta’s change of privacy policy which allows it to scrape user data to develop AI models.…
DarkGate, the Swiss Army knife of malware, sees boom after rival Qbot crushed
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss The DarkGate malware family has become more prevalent in recent months, after one of its main competitors was taken down by the FBI.…
Kaspersky culls staff, closes doors in US amid Biden’s ban
After all we've done for you, America, sniffs antivirus lab Kaspersky has confirmed it will shutter its American operations and cut US-based jobs following President Biden's ban on the Russian business last month.…
ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu
'It seems like they really don't have a full grasp of what's going on with this patch' Exclusive A Microsoft zero-day exploit that Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative team claims it found and reported to Redmond in May was disclosed and patched by the Windows giant in July's…
Infoseccers claim Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijackings at Web3 firms
Company keeps quiet amid high-profile compromises Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace's acquisition of Google Domains last year.…
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory? Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and SAP.…
I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed
Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more Infosec in brief Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached – again – and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records.…
UK cyber-boss slams China’s bug-hoarding laws
Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more ASIA IN BRIEF The interim CEO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has criticized China's approach to bug reporting.…
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most critical assets.…