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If it can happen to folks that run social engineering defence training, what hope for the rest of us?

Security awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a fake North Korean IT worker for a software engineering role on its AI team, and only realized its mistake once the worker started using his company-provided computer for evil.…

President apologizes in advance for job losses

The Philippines has decided to dismantle the worst of its offshored industries: the bits that run gambling and scam operations.…

Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?

Analysis  Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash.…

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?

If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it's to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don't mean – in the anti-malware world.…

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Webinar  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries worldwide, but with great power comes great responsibility.…

Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity

Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week's CrowdStrike outage, researchers say.…

Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR

On the day of Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, cybersecurity firm Wiz has walked from a $23 billion takeover bid by Google's parent company.…

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Webinar  As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries in the Middle East, protecting systems from cyber threats is critical.…

Ad giant promises to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues

Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies – the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities.…

One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet

A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) as the world's most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement sting dubbed Operation Power Off.…

Some rest for the wicked?

Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest trial court in America, closed all 36 of its courthouses today following an "unprecedented" ransomware attack on Friday.…

More baddies go it alone as trust in big gangs withers, claims Europol

A fresh report from Europol suggests that the recent disruption of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups is fragmenting the threat landscape, making it more difficult to track.…

Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action

Oracle has agreed to cough up $115 million to settle a two-year class action lawsuit that alleged misuse of user data.…

Was a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame?

Did the EU force Microsoft to let third parties like CrowdStrike run riot in the Windows kernel as a result of a 2009 undertaking? This is the implication being peddled by the Redmond-based cloud and software titan.…

Supposed hacktivist efforts previously linked to the Kremlin's GRU

Flying under the radar on Clownstrike day last week, two members of the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) hacktivist crew are the latest additions to the US sanctions list.…

Also: Second-string Russian hackers sanctioned; Senators demand answers from Snowflake, and more

Infosec in brief  Unable to access the Samsung smartphone of the deceased Trump shooter for clues, the FBI turned to a familiar – if controversial – source to achieve its goal: digital forensics tools vendor Cellebrite.…

Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5 million machines went down

CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.…

17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will 'relentlessly pursue' miscreants around the globe

Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with ransomware last summer.…

Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday

Kettle  If you're an IT administrator with Windows boxes on your network, Friday can't have been a lot of fun. What's likely millions of systems were or still are stuck in blue-screen boot loop hell, mostly requiring manual intervention to fix.…

Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround

UPDATED  An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows.…