Cybersecurity
Time to zero in on Zero Trust?
Recently discovered vulnerabilities in VPN services should push ASEAN organizations to rethink their perimeter security approach Sponsored Post Companies the ASEAN region have long relied on a virtual private network (VPN) to help encrypt their Internet traffic and protect users' online identities.…
Crooks crack customer info at tracking device vendor Tile, issue ‘extortion’ demands
Who tracks the trackers? Life360, purveyor of "Tile" Bluetooth tracking devices and developer of associated apps, has revealed it is dealing with a "criminal extortion attempt" after unknown miscreants contacted it with an allegation they had customer data in their possession.…
White House report dishes deets on all 11 major government breaches from 2023
The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren’t kind to the Feds last year The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most…
China’s FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought.…
Let’s kick off our summer with a pwn-me-by-Wi-Fi bug in Microsoft Windows
Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June Patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-tagged security flaws in its products – including one bug deemed critical, a…
Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace
Secure storage company hasn't spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it's a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches.…
Cylance clarifies data breach details, except where the data came from
Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn't endanger customers, yet it won't say where the information was stored originally.…
UK and Canada’s data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach
Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach.…
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act – a law aimed at forcing TikTok's Chinese parent…
Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira…