IT contractor sentenced in Australian maritime museum fraud – Finance – Security
A former IT support contractor to the Australian National Maritime Museum will spend at least 15 months behind bars over a ‘trusted insider’ attack. The…
Month: March 2024
Chinese Earth Krahang hackers breach 70 orgs in 23 countries
A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as ‘Earth Krahang’ has breached 70 organizations and targeted at least…
Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO
Artificial intelligence (AI) presents the government with opportunities to transform public services, but harnessing the benefits will require a “realistic plan” to change business processes,…
US prosecutors call British tech founder Mike Lynch ‘driving force’ behind fraud – Software
Mike Lynch, the wealthy tech founder once hailed as Britain’s answer to Steve Jobs, oversaw a “multiyear, multilayered fraud” that lured Hewlett-Packard into paying US$11…
PoC exploit for critical RCE in Fortra FileCatalyst tool released
PoC exploit for critical RCE flaw in Fortra FileCatalyst transfer tool released Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2024 Fortra addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability…
Investment advisers pay $400K to settle ‘AI washing’ charges
Image: Midjourney The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that two investment advisers, Delphia (USA) and Global Predictions, have settled charges of making…
Fujitsu Scrambles After Malware Attack: Customer Data Potentially Breached
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu is investigating a potential data leak after malware infected company systems – This could expose the personal information of customers and…
Fujitsu finds malware on company systems, investigates possible data breach
Fujitsu Limited, the largest Japanese IT services provider, has announced that several of the company’s computers have been compromised with malware, leading to a possible…
Budgets rise as IT decision-makers ramp up cyber security spending
Almost half (46%) of organisations surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology spending intentions study say they are increasing their budget. The poll of…
Nasdaq resolves technical glitch that impacted premarket trading – Finance
Nasdaq, which lists shares of some of the biggest US tech companies on its exchange, said it had resolved a technical glitch that affected trading…
Fujitsu suffered a malware attack and probably a data breach
Fujitsu suffered a malware attack and probably a data breach Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2024 Technology giant Fujitsu announced it had suffered a cyberattack that…
Microsoft announces deprecation of 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows
Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security. Rivest–Shamir–Adleman…