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Updated Emergency services, medical practices, airlines, banks, and more all crippled
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Snowflake lets admins make MFA mandatory across all user accounts
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Security10 Jul 2024 | 4
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Malware Month10 Jul 2024 | 8
RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw
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Research05 Jul 2024 | 25
Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard
Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture
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Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn't touch China
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Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef
Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied
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Patches01 Jul 2024 | 59
Juniper Networks flings out emergency patches for perfect 10 router vuln
Get 'em while they're hot
Patches01 Jul 2024 | 6
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CSO01 Jul 2024 | 12
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings
Security28 Jun 2024 | 24
US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts
Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them
Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 13
Batten down the hatches, it's time to patch some more MOVEit bugs
Exploit attempts for ‘devastating’ vulnerabilities already underway
Patches26 Jun 2024 | 9
Crypto scammers circle back, pose as lawyers, steal an extra $10M in truly devious plan
Business is more lucrative than you might think
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 18
CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities
Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness
Cyber-crime25 Jun 2024 | 3
Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK
More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 2
'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices
Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware
Research24 Jun 2024 | 3
Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches
A busy few days for security teams
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2024 | 5
Phoenix UEFI flaw puts long list of Intel chips in hot seat
Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor
Research21 Jun 2024 | 21
Qilin cyber scum leak data they claim belongs to London hospitals’ pathology provider
At least they didn’t get paid their $50M ransom demand
Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 11
Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'
Downtime set to crash into next week
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 14
Russia's cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy
Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 9
Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals
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Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 25
Amtrak confirms crooks are breaking into accounts using creds swiped from other DBs
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Cyber-crime19 Jun 2024 | 12
Uncle Sam ends financial support to orgs hurt by Change Healthcare attack
Billions of dollars made available but worst appears to be over
Research18 Jun 2024 | 3
NHS boss says Scottish trust wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted
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Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 | 13
Blackbaud has to cough up a few million dollars more over 2020 ransomware attack
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Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 3
Cops cuff 22-year-old Brit suspected of being Scattered Spider leader
Spanish plod make arrest at airport before he jetted off to Italy
Cyber-crime17 Jun 2024 | 22
UK's Total Fitness exposed nearly 500K images of members, staff through unprotected database
Exclusive Health club chain headed for the spa on choose-a-password day
Security17 Jun 2024 | 24
Ukraine busts SIM farms targeting soldiers with spyware
Russia recruits local residents to support battlefield goals
Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 8
Ukrainian cops collar Kyiv programmer believed to be Conti, LockBit linchpin
28-year-old accused of major ransomware attacks across Europe
Malware Month13 Jun 2024 | 13
Student's flimsy bin bags blamed for latest NHS data breach
Confidential patient information found by member of the public
Security13 Jun 2024 | 63
White House report dishes deets on all 11 major government breaches from 2023
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CSO12 Jun 2024 | 1
China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
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Cyber-crime12 Jun 2024 | 13
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
Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 1
Cylance clarifies data breach details, except where the data came from
Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says
Security11 Jun 2024 | 2
UK and Canada's data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach
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Cyber-crime11 Jun 2024 | 14
Christie's confirms RansomHub crooks stole data on 45K clients
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Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 |
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Cyber-crime10 Jun 2024 | 23
Frontier Communications: 750k people's data stolen in April attack on systems
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