Cybersecurity
Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain
Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a…
Risk of getting malicious extension from Chrome store way worse than Google’s letting on, study suggests
All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."…
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What’s up with the Kaspersky US ban?
It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October.…
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients' data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back in February – and for the first time has concretely disclosed the…
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky’s top bosses – but not Mr K himself
Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky.…
Phoenix UEFI flaw puts long list of Intel chips in hot seat
Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware is threatening the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar fashion to BlackLotus and others like it.…
Why attack surfaces are expanding
Insights from Cloudflare Webinar In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, understanding why attack surfaces are expanding is more critical than ever.…
Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider
At least they didn’t get paid their $50 million ransom demand The ransomware gang responsible for the chaos at London hospitals kept true to its word and released a trove of data that it claims belongs to pathology services provider Synnovis.…
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites
If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by "harmful interference" from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.…
Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach
Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers' personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API access controls, and was left in place for…