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Leicester Council Confirms Confidential Documents Leaked in Ransomware Attack
Leicester City Council confirmed around 25 sensitive documents have been leaked online, including personal ID information, following claims by the Inc Ransom gang Read More
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Deepfake Expert Henry Ajder to Keynote Infosecurity Europe 2024 on AI Challenges
Infosecurity Europe 2024 will feature a keynote presentation by deepfake expert Henry Ajder, exploring the implications of generative AI on cybersecurity Read More
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Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App
The ProtonMail people are accusing Microsoft’s new Outlook for Windows app of conducting extensive surveillance on its users. It shares data with advertisers, a lot of data: The window informs users that Microsoft and those 801 third parties use their data for a number of purposes, including to: Store and/or access information on the user’s…
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What makes a ransomware attack eight times as costly? Compromised backups
New research has found that ransomware remediation costs can explode when backups have been compromised by malicious hackers – with overall recovery costs eight times higher than for those whose backups are not impacted. Read more in my article on th Exponential-e blog. Read More
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Threat Actor Claims Classified Five Eyes Data Theft
Threat actor IntelBroker claims to have classified intelligence stolen from US government tech supplier Acuity Read More
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Firms Must Work Harder to Guard Children’s Privacy, Says UK ICO
Privacy regulator the ICO urges social media and video sharing firms to do more to protect children’s data Read More
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Smashing Security podcast #366: Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private
Google says it is deleting the your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can a zero-risk millionaire-making bot be trusted? And what countries are banned from buying your sensitive data? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity…
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Cyber Safety Review Board Report Slams Microsoft Security Failures in Government Email Breach
A report has highlighted multiple security failings by Microsoft that allowed Chinese threat actors to access US government officials’ email accounts in the Summer of 2023 Read More
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Prudential Financial Notifies 36,000 Individuals of Data Breach
The compromised data includes names or other identifying information in combination with driver’s license numbers Read More
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Infostealers Prevalent in Retail Sector Cybercrime Trends
The findings from Netskope also show a shift in the retail sector’s use of cloud applications Read More