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‘Bro delete the chat’: Feel the panic shortly before cops bust major online fraud ring 2025-01-29 at 14:33 By Connor Jones Mastermind begs colluders to bury evidence later used to imprison him In announcing the sentencing of three Brits who ran OTP Agency, an account-takeover business, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed how a 2021 […]

Security research discovers vulnerabilities in popular travel service 2025-01-29 at 14:18 By An account takeover vulnerability has been discovered in a popular online travel service.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI in Cybersecurity: What’s Effective and What’s Not – Insights from 200 Experts 2025-01-29 at 14:03 By Curious about the buzz around AI in cybersecurity? Wonder if it’s just a shiny new toy in the tech world or a serious game changer? Let’s unpack this together in a not-to-be-missed webinar that goes beyond the hype

New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits 2025-01-29 at 14:03 By A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from web browsers like Safari and Google

Hyperoptic customers left in dark as power outage takes down systems 2025-01-29 at 13:45 By Richard Speed What falls down and doesn’t get back up? Full fiber broadband in Glasgow UK broadband provider Hyperoptic has taken a long weekend, leaving some customers disconnected after the company’s systems went down following a storm.… This article is

Oracle finance system at Europe’s largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later 2025-01-29 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Auditors find solution design ‘was not fully resolved’ when it went live in 2022 An Oracle-based ERP system used by Europe’s largest local authority is still not “safe and compliant” two-and-a-half years after it went

How Interlock Ransomware Infects Healthcare Organizations 2025-01-29 at 12:48 By Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a figure that nearly doubles the previously

Critical Cacti Security Flaw (CVE-2025-22604) Enables Remote Code Execution 2025-01-29 at 12:48 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework that could allow an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-22604, carries a CVSS score of 9.1

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade 2025-01-29 at 12:18 By Liam Proven If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely The Reg FOSS desk spent some quality time downgrading Ubuntu to restore graphics acceleration. How and why would we do this?…

Microsoft signs eviction notice on Dev Home 2025-01-29 at 11:33 By Richard Speed Development dashboard destined for ditching Microsoft is killing off its unloved Dev Home control center after the app spent less than two years in preview.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise 2025-01-29 at 10:33 By Mark Pesce But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends? Column  When moving house a few months back I found several heavy plastic tubs that, upon inspection, I saw contained my life’s work in

Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like cyber resilience progress 2025-01-29 at 09:33 By Connor Jones Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not

AI revoir, Lucie: France’s answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive 2025-01-29 at 08:45 By Thomas Claburn Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling As China demonstrates how competitive open source AI models can be via the latest DeepSeek release, France has shown the opposite.… This article is an

Zyxel CPE Devices Face Active Exploitation Due to Unpatched CVE-2024-40891 Vulnerability 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. “Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise, data

Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated

UAC-0063 Expands Cyber Attacks to European Embassies Using Stolen Documents 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as UAC-0063 has been observed leveraging legitimate documents obtained by infiltrating one victim to attack another target with the goal of delivering a known malware dubbed HATVIBE. “This research focuses on completing the picture

Game-day defense: Next-gen threat protection for sporting events 2025-01-29 at 07:03 By Safeguarding national and international sporting events is essential for public safety and confers economic benefit on all involved.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Robinhood CEO predicts an investing revolution is on the horizon – and believes it could be ‘a big problem’ for US 2025-01-29 at 06:04 By Fox Business Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is spotlighting “a big problem” that needs fixing in America’s trading market. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

Fake toll road texts sweep America as Chinese scammers target US drivers 2025-01-29 at 05:03 By Fox News Phishing scams are evolving, you should as well. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

The curious story of Uncle Sam’s HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster 2025-01-29 at 04:48 By Thomas Claburn, Chris Williams, and Iain Thomson Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings Two anonymous US government employees have sued Uncle Sam’s