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17 Billion Personal Records Exposed in Data Breaches in 2023
Flashpoint recorded a 34.5% rise in reported data breaches in 2023, with ransomware a major driver of this increase Read More
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Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. By loading the contents into the CPU cache before it’s actually needed, the DMP, as the feature is abbreviated,…
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Half of British SMEs Have Lost Data in Past Five Years
Beaming research reveals that nearly half of UK SMEs have lost data since 2019, costing billions Read More
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Calls to Incident Response Helpline Double in a Year
A rising volume of calls to the Scottish Cyber and Fraud Centre highlights surging threat levels Read More
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Smashing Security podcast #365: Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing
Security researchers find a way to unlock millions of hotel rooms, the UK introduces cyberflashing laws, and Google’s AI search pushes malware and scams. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by T-Minus’s Maria…
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NHS Trust Confirms Clinical Data Leaked by “Recognized Ransomware Group”
NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirmed that patient clinical data was leaked following the attack on its systems earlier in March 2024 Read More
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Ransomware hits The Big Issue. Qilin group leaks confidential data
The Qilin ransomware group has targeted The Big Issue, a street newspaper sold by the homeless and vulnerable. Spost on Qilin’s dark web leak site claimed the gang has stolen 550 GB of confidential data from the periodical’s parent company. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Surged by Over 50% Annually, Says Google
Google detected nearly 100 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2023 Read More
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Only 3% of Businesses Resilient Against Modern Cyber Threats
Cisco scored just 3% of organizations as having a ‘mature’ level of readiness to cyber threats, a significant decline from the previous year Read More
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Security Vulnerability in Saflok’s RFID-Based Keycard Locks
It’s pretty devastating: Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok. The technique is a collection of security vulnerabilities that would allow a hacker to almost instantly open several models of Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks sold by the Swiss lock maker…