August 2023

NYC Couple Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $3.6 Billion Bitfinex Hack 04/08/2023 at 15:46 By A married couple from New York City has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, resulting in the theft of about 120,000 bitcoin. The development comes more than a

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Judge throws out EE’s £25M 5G contract suit against Virgin Media 04/08/2023 at 15:02 By Jude Karabus 2022’s MVNO spat wrapped up as world+dog reminded to check exclusion clauses A High Court judge has dismissed a 2022 £24.6 million ($31 million) breach of contract lawsuit in which EE sued Virgin Media when it struck a

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Webinar – Making PAM Great Again: Solving the Top 5 Identity Team PAM Challenges 04/08/2023 at 14:48 By Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are widely acknowledged as the gold standard for securing critical privileged accounts. However, many security and identity teams face inherent obstacles during the PAM journey, hindering these solutions from reaching their full

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Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It’s not you, it’s your CO2 04/08/2023 at 13:47 By Dan Robinson Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with ‘best practices’ and a ‘climate lens’ A telecoms industry body focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has called for all companies to take action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

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Malicious npm Packages Found Exfiltrating Sensitive Data from Developers 04/08/2023 at 13:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new bunch of malicious packages on the npm package registry that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive developer information. Software supply chain firm Phylum, which first identified the “test” packages on July 31, 2023, said they “demonstrated increasing

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Major Cybersecurity Agencies Collaborate to Unveil 2022’s Most Exploited Vulnerabilities 04/08/2023 at 10:31 By A four-year-old critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiOS SSL has emerged as one of the most routinely and frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2022. “In 2022, malicious cyber actors exploited older software vulnerabilities more frequently than recently disclosed vulnerabilities and targeted unpatched,

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Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons 04/08/2023 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn Why ‘dont deploy on Frday’ is a thnng Boffins have spent two years monitoring the computers of office staff at a large Texas energy concern and found that workers did less and made more mistakes in the afternoon

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Big Tech’s going to love India’s new personal data protection bill, say digital rights groups 04/08/2023 at 09:02 By Laura Dobberstein Big fines for breaches. Also big powers, including takedowns, for planned Data Protection Board India’s long awaited digital Personal Data Protection Bill was tabled in parliament on Thursday, complete with stiff penalties for data

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Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy 04/08/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech? A Japanese supermarket has started analyzing customers’ in-store behavior and feeding it to a generative AI to drive an avatar that makes real-time suggestions about stuff you

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