Ollama drama as 'easy-to-exploit' critical flaw found in open source AI server About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told Patches24 Jun 2024 | 9
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 Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen CSO21 Jun 2024 | 17
Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 4
Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US Blockade begins July 20 on national security grounds as antivirus slinger vows to fight back CSO20 Jun 2024 | 111
That PowerShell 'fix' for your root cert 'problem' is a malware loader in disguise Control-C, Control-V, Enter ... Hell Research19 Jun 2024 | 18
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam Updated Pen-testing tools didn't work – and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines CSO17 Jun 2024 | 2
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ... The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? CSO17 Jun 2024 | 17
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Feature Business as usual needs a real change Public Sector15 Jun 2024 | 45
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down Facebook parent calls step forward for privacy a 'step backwards' AI + ML14 Jun 2024 | 41
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended 'It's not our job to find the culprits – That's what we're paying you for' lawmaker scolds Brad Smith CSO14 Jun 2024 | 57
Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M Analysis In this slightly more private era, your data ain't as profitable as it once was Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 25
Ransomware crew may have exploited Windows make-me-admin bug as a zero-day Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch Malware Month12 Jun 2024 | 2
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 CSO12 Jun 2024 | 1
Let's kick off our summer with a pwn-me-by-Wi-Fi bug in Microsoft Windows Patch Tuesday Redmond splats dozens of bugs as does Adobe while Arm drivers and PHP under active attack CSO12 Jun 2024 | 7
Akira: Perhaps the next big thing in ransomware, says Tidal threat intelligence chief Interview Scott Small tells us gang's 'intent and capability' should get the attention of CSOs Malware Month09 Jun 2024 | 3
Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up Interview Lessons learned from the infosec chief convicted and punished for covering up theft of data from taxi app maker CSO08 Jun 2024 | 33
FCC takes some action against notorious BGP How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9
Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall As tool emerges to probe OS feature's SQLite-based store of user activities OSes06 Jun 2024 | 114
Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure flaw it says doesn't need a fix, just better documentation Let customers interfere with other tenants? That's our cloud working by design, Redmond seems to say CSO05 Jun 2024 | 9
Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan CSO04 Jun 2024 | 91
Pentagon 'doubling down' on Microsoft despite 'massive hack,' senators complain Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress Public Sector04 Jun 2024 | 5
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
NIST turns to IT consultants to clear National Vulnerability Database backlog Aims to get CVE logjam cleared by the end of FY 24 CSO03 Jun 2024 | 5
US senator claims UnitedHealth's CEO, board appointed 'unqualified' CISO Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale CSO31 May 2024 | 26
OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce AI + ML30 May 2024 | 11
IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability Exclusive Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog CSO30 May 2024 | 18
2.8M US folks learn their personal info was swiped months ago in Sav-Rx IT heist Theft happened in October, only now are details coming to light Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 8
How's Uncle Sam getting on with Biden's AI exec order? Pretty good, we're told Interview Former Pentagon deputy CIO Rob Carey tells us guardrails should steer Feds away from bad ML Public Sector27 May 2024 | 7
Three-year-old Apache Flink flaw under active attack We know IT admins have busy schedules but c'mon Patches24 May 2024 | 11
70% of CISOs worry their org is at risk of a material cyber attack Wait, why do you want this job again? CSO23 May 2024 | 7
Go after UnitedHealth, not us, 100+ medical groups urge Uncle Sam Why should we get its paperwork? CSO22 May 2024 | 8
Confused by the SEC's IT security breach reporting rules? Read this 'Clarification' weighs in on material vs voluntary disclosures CSO22 May 2024 | 2
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government Drama between two of the leading secure messaging services Applications14 May 2024 | 25
AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours' RSAC Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component Spotlight on RSA13 May 2024 | 7
Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg Interview As gang tactics get nastier while attacks hit all-time highs Cyber-crime12 May 2024 | 43
Critical infrastructure security will stay poor until everyone pulls together Interview Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks Public Sector11 May 2024 | 12
Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November Interview Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI Public Sector09 May 2024 | 36
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24
From infosec to skunks, RSA Conference SVP spills the tea Interview Keynotes, physical security, playlists … the buck stops with Linda Gray Martin Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 |
UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection Interview 'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA' Spotlight on RSA08 May 2024 | 25
CISA says 'no more' to decades-old directory traversal bugs Recent attacks on healthcare thrust infosec agency into alert mode CSO06 May 2024 | 13
It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO interview Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar CSO03 May 2024 | 27
Qantas app glitch sees boarding passes fly to other accounts Issue now resolved and isn't thought to be the work of criminals CSO01 May 2024 | 8
UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine' Updated Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss Malware Month30 Apr 2024 | 28
London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following 'cybersecurity incident' Updated Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice' CSO29 Apr 2024 | 20
UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too CSO29 Apr 2024 | 77
Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others Ouch! CSO26 Apr 2024 | 8
Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability CSO24 Apr 2024 | 10
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 9
Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant Research17 Apr 2024 | 10
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist! Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 19
X fixes URL blunder that could enable convincing social media phishing campaigns Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs CSO10 Apr 2024 | 27
Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers Is there no cure for this cyber-plague? Cyber-crime03 Apr 2024 | 7
Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source Analysis This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that's not a defense strategy Devops01 Apr 2024 | 98
Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected CSO29 Mar 2024 | 123
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb One might say this is a wurst case scenario Patches28 Mar 2024 | 44
'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders CSO27 Mar 2024 | 14
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin' CSO26 Mar 2024 | 11