Cochlear CIO David Hackshall leaves – Strategy – Training & Development
Cochlear CIO David Hackshall. Cochlear’s chief information officer of over seven years, David Hackshall, has left to take up a chief digital officer role at…
Month: January 2023
MSI accidentally breaks Secure Boot for hundreds of motherboards
Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image to run regardless…
CIO interview: Matt Grest, Very Group
Consumer expectations have always been sky-high, but the Covid-19 pandemic pushed retailers to the limit as the whole of the UK was forced online. But…
Vice Society ransomware leaks University of Duisburg-Essen’s data
The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a November 2022 cyberattack on the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) that forced the university to reconstruct…
Hacktivists Leak 1.7TB of Cellebrite, 103GB of MSAB Data
According to the Enlace Hacktivista group, the Cellebrite and MSAB data (both are smartphone forensic firms) was provided to them by an “anonymous whistleblower.” The…
The Security Interviews: Protecting your digital self
With our lives becoming ever more interconnected, and both real-world and online activities being recorded, we are generating an increasingly sophisticated record of what we…
IT budgets under pressure due to poor economic outlook
CIOs should prepare for a 3.6% decline in IT spending this year, analyst Forrester has warned. But budgets are set to increase after 2024, as…
Malicious ‘Lolip0p’ PyPi packages install info-stealing malware
A threat actor has uploaded to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository three malicious packages that carry code to drop info-stealing malware on developers’ systems. The malicious…
Squaring the CircleCI: DevOps platform publishes post-mortem on recent breach
How the build pipeline was compromised Popular DevOps platform CircleCI has blamed an attack that successfully planted malware on an internal engineer’s laptop for a…
How to handle personal data of students
School districts are constantly being targeted by cyber attacks, leading to data breaches and information misuse. So, to those who are worried about the privacy…
A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever
Jan 16, 2023The Hacker NewsIdentity Management / MFA When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability.…
Cash use rises for first time in 13 years as cost of living increases
The amount of cash withdrawn from ATMs increased 19% in 2022 as people attempted to avoid going into debt during the cost of living crisis.…