Secret London tribunal to hear appeal in Apple vs government battle over encryption
A secret tribunal is due to meet at the High Court in London this week to hear tech giant Apple appeal against a Home Office…
Author: Cybernoz
Majority of ransomware claims involved compromise of perimeter security devices
Dive Brief: About six of every 10 ransomware claims in 2024 involved the compromise of a perimeter security device such as a virtual private network…
Microsoft replacing Remote Desktop app with Windows App in May
Microsoft announced that it will drop support for the Remote Desktop app (available via the Microsoft Store) on May 27 and replace it with its…
Data Breach stories of Bank of America and Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Information Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), one of the world’s premier luxury car manufacturers, is facing a data breach…
How to spot and avoid AI-generated scams
As AI technology advances, cybercriminals create more personalized and convincing scams. This includes mimicking voices, deepfake videos, and highly convincing phishing emails that are difficult…
Perimeter security appliances source of most ransomware hits
Compromised or vulnerable perimeter security appliances and devices – especially virtual private networks (VPNs) – formed the initial access vector in over half of observed…
UK government under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack, hears PAC
The government is under-prepared for a catastrophic cyber attack and still dogged by legacy IT, but making progress, the Public Accounts Committee of the House…
Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director
President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday, the last major piece to fall into place for…
The AI race: Dark AI is in the lead, but good AI is catching up
Cybercriminals are using AI for help in planning and conducting cyberattacks—but cybersecurity vendors are fighting back. Learn from Acronis Threat Research Unit about how AI-powered…
New York sues Allstate and subsidiaries for back-to-back data breaches
Allstate and several of the insurance company’s subsidiaries were accused of poor security practices resulting in data breaches in 2020 and 2021 that exposed sensitive…
Critical PHP RCE vulnerability mass exploited in new attacks
Threat intelligence company GreyNoise warns that a critical PHP remote code execution vulnerability that impacts Windows systems is now under mass exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2024-4577,…
PowerSchool previously hacked in August, months before data breach
PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier,…