Mimecast bins SolarWinds and compromised servers alike in wake of supply chain hack Signs up for Cisco, says some encrypted creds were stolen 17 Mar 2021 | 8
Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack Plus: Stop bigging up these despicable criminals 17 Mar 2021 | 30
PSA: If you're still giving users admin rights, maybe try not doing that. Would've helped dampen 100+ Microsoft vulns last year – report Limiting access is great though 'patching is the only permanent fix' 17 Mar 2021 | 71
Ex-asylum seeker with infosec degree loses discrimination claim against UK cyber range provider after storming out 'It had nothing whatsoever to do with the claimant's country of birth', rules Employment Tribunal 16 Mar 2021 | 40
Smart doorbells on business premises make your property more attractive to burglars, warns researcher Spend your cash on real locks, advises Cranfield University 15 Mar 2021 | 36
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness Reg Standards Bureau Less than a fifth of a linguine, for goodness' sake – come on now 12 Mar 2021 | 69
No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools 12 Mar 2021 | 6
This Netgear SOHO switch has 15 – count 'em! – vulns, which means you need to upgrade the firmware... now One of them is a critical RCE bug 11 Mar 2021 | 23
ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files 11 Mar 2021 | 17
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners 11 Mar 2021 | 30
Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ Life in the 21st century is great 10 Mar 2021 | 15
Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties Shades of the Encrochat bust all over again 10 Mar 2021 | 24
Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey Bare-faced cheek of Barewire using our trademarks, say Redmond legal eagles 10 Mar 2021 | 48
Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool Updated Plus: Where did their original logo come from? 10 Mar 2021 | 11
US newspaper's 'Biden will hack Russia' claim: A good way to reassure Putin you'll leave him alone Opinion Titbit for domestic consumption looks darn silly from abroad 09 Mar 2021 | 45
University of the Highlands and Islands shuts down campuses as it deals with 'ongoing cyber incident' Ten letters, starts with R, ends with E, three syllables 08 Mar 2021 | 10
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol One-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected 05 Mar 2021 | 70
US consumer protection bureau goes after tech support scammers' alleged payments processor Hit the organ-grinder, not just the monkey 04 Mar 2021 | 23
Qualys hit with ransomware: Customer invoices leaked on extortionists' Tor blog Updated Ace infosec biz aware and investigating, we're told 03 Mar 2021 | 16
Proof of concept code published for latest Saltstack CVE: Don't be an update laggard Any user could become root, warns Immersive Labs researcher 03 Mar 2021 | 3
It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info Seeing as Google thinks no one cares about location records, we'll remove street addresses from all our sites, says compliance chief 03 Mar 2021 | 23
IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards 03 Mar 2021 | 16
Gootkit malware crew using SEO to get pwned websites in front of unwitting marks And they're getting into the ransomware game too, warns Sophos 02 Mar 2021 | 3
Imperva pretty adamant that security analytics aggregator product Sonar is not 'one dashboard to rule them all' Uh huh... it's a good time to be in enterprise security analytics 26 Feb 2021 | 2
HPE urges judge to pick through Deloitte-bashing report it claims demolishes Autonomy founder's defence Plus: Full ruling in $5bn High Court case expected by end of Q1 26 Feb 2021 | 48