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Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace

Don’t blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft Pics  A Massachusetts man accused of using his job as a city’s assistant facilities director to hide a cryptocurrency mining operation in the crawlspace of a school has surrendered…

European Commission bans TikTok from staff gadgets

Cyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn’t cyber use the other C word (China) The European Commission on Thursday banned the use of the TikTok short video app on corporate devices and on the personal devices of employees enrolled…

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Study: Old pacts ditched the moment Moscow moved in The so-called “brotherhood” or Russian-speaking cybercriminals is yet another casualty of the war in Ukraine, albeit one that few outside of Moscow are mourning.… This article has been indexed from The…

Suspected Russian NLBrute malware boss extradited to US

Dariy Pankov accused of infiltrating systems, selling tool and passwords to other miscreants A Russian national accused of developing the NLBrute brute-force hacking tool has made his first court appearance this week in Florida over accusations that he used the…

FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

Fake donors allegedly padded politicians’ pockets, both Republican and Democrat FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s eight-count indictment related to the collapse of his crypto empire has been superseded by a new 12-count indictment unsealed in New York which provide graphic details…

Global threats fuel cyber defence training

SANS Institute ramps up delivery of new security training courses to help keep info sec pros ahead of cyber criminals Sponsored Post  The global impact of cyber threats on businesses, governments, organisations and individuals around the world is ramping up…

Locking down the remote printer

No longer a blind spot, printer security is now a grown up conversation says Brother Sponsored Feature  As businesses journey deeper into an era of restless digital change, it’s surprising how inventions from past decades still define the office environment.……

EU lawmakers argue against signing US data-transfer pact

Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn’t sit right Lawmakers in the European Parliament have urged the European Commission not to issue the “adequacy decision” needed for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to officially…

FBI contains ‘isolated cyber incident’ on its network

Move along, totally nothing to see here The FBI has confirmed a cyber “incident” that reportedly involved computer systems being used to investigate child sexual exploitation.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…

Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS

WebKit flaw ‘may have been exploited’ – just like Tim Cook ‘may have’ made a million bucks this week Apple this week released bug-splatting updates to its operating systems and Safari browser, to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its WebKit…

EU lawmakers argue against signing US data pact

Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn’t sit right Lawmakers in the European Parliament have urged the European Commission not to issue the “adequacy decision” needed for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to officially…

EU lawmakers advise against signing US data pact

Committee: Something about complaints process being dealt with in total secrecy doesn’t sit right Lawmakers in the European Parliament have urged the European Commission not to issue the “adequacy decision” needed for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to officially…

VMware, Windows 11 shafted by Windows Server 2022

OS won’t start on some systems with ESXi VMs, while Win11 updates may not make it to devices Microsoft is sorting through two issues with Windows Server 2022 that affect VMware virtual machines and updates not getting passed on to…

Romance scam targets security researcher, hilarity ensues

Happy Valentine’s Day! Now don’t get fooled It sounds like the plot of a somewhat far-fetched romcom-slash-thriller Netflix series, maybe billed as You meets Your Place or Mine, dropping just in time for Valentine’s Day.… This article has been indexed…

Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS

WebKit flaw ‘may have been exploited’ just like Tim Cook ‘may have’ made a million bucks this week Apple this week released bug-splatting updates to its operating systems and Safari browser, to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its WebKit browser…

Romance scam targets security researcher, hilarity ensues

Happy Valentine’s Day! Now don’t get fooled It sounds like the plot of a somewhat far-fetched romcom-slash-thriller Netflix series, maybe billed as You meets Your Place or Mine, dropping just in time for Valentine’s Day.… This article has been indexed…

Namecheap admits ‘unauthorized emails’ pwning its customers

Blames ‘third-party provider’ as phishers drain Ethereum wallets Domain registrar Namecheap blamed a “third-party provider” that sends its newsletters after customers complained of receiving phishing emails from Namecheap’s system.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…

Australian government gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

The usual suspects – Hikvision and Dahua – named as a risk to national security, prompting the usual denials Australia’s Defence Department removed all Chinese manufactured surveillance cameras after an audit detailed the number of Hikvision and Dahua devices installed…

Keeping unstructured data safe and sound

How Dell PowerScale helps defend against information breaches Webinar  There was a time when data was stored in cardboard files inside metal filing cabinets. The drawers were locked with a little key in the corner of the cabinet, which generally…

Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself? Opinion  The tech sector is failing at cybersecurity. Global spending on the stuff is at $190 billion a year, a quarter of the US defense budget. That hasn’t stemmed an estimated…

Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders

The campaign illustrates another option for miscreants who had relied on Microsoft macros Malvertising attacks are being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are highly obfuscated and dropping info-stealer malware.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…

Iran crew stole Charlie Hebdo database, says Microsoft

Same gang pestered US voters during 2020 presidential election Microsoft believes the gang who boasted it had stolen and leaked more than 200,000 Charlie Hebdo subscribers’ personal information is none other than a Tehran-backed gang.… This article has been indexed…

LockBit brags it pumped ION full of ransomware

Crims put a February 4 deadline for software provider to pay up UK regulators are investigating a cyberattack against financial technology firm ION, while the LockBit ransomware gang has threatened to publish the stolen data on February 4 if the…