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Northern Ireland cops count human cost of August data breach
An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff.…
BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz
BlackBerry has decided its plan to split into two separate companies is not a good idea and will instead reorganize itself into two independent divisions.…
Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online
Hundreds of suspected people smugglers have been arrested, and 163 potential victims rescued from servitude, as part of an Interpol-coordinated operation dubbed "Turquesa V" that targeted cyber criminals who lure workers into servitude to carry out their scams.…
Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses
Many US businesses may be required to assist in government-directed surveillance – depending upon which of two reform bills before Congress is approved.…
2.5M patients infected with data loss in Norton Healthcare ransomware outbreak
Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people's most sensitive data during a ransomware attack in May.…
Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware
Research into Lazarus Group's attacks using Log4Shell has revealed novel malware strains written in an atypical programming language.…
Two years on, 1 in 4 apps still vulnerable to Log4Shell
Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications are dependent on outdated libraries, leaving them open to exploitation.…
Read the clouds, reduce the cyber risk
Webinar In the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud - a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. But in our global business environment, there's no single defining feature to aid classification.…
23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms
Security in brief The saga of 23andMe's mega data breach has reached something of a conclusion, with the company saying its probe has determined millions of leaked records originated from illicit break-ins into just 14,000 accounts.…
VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure
Interview Monitoring biz VictoriaMetrics is relatively unusual in its field. It is yet to accept external investment, preferring instead to try to grow organically rather than being forced to through a private equity meat grinder by committing to grow by X every year until the investor exits.…
Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky
An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.…
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor
Two competing bills to reauthorize America's FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.…
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.…