Cybersecurity pros battle discontent amid skills shortage
The cybersecurity skills crisis continues in a multi-year freefall that has impacted 71% of organizations and left two-thirds of cybersecurity professionals stating that the job…
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Cisco SSO authentication bug patched – Security – Networking
Cisco has announced patches for a critical credential forgery bug in some of its BroadWorks platforms. The networking vendor said CVE-2023-20238 affects the single sign-on…
Baseline standards for BYOD access requirements
49% of enterprises across Europe currently have no formal Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy in place, meaning they have no visibility into or control over if and…
FreeWorld ransomware attacks MSSQL—get your databases off the Internet
A attack that uses a database as an entry point to a network reminds us that you should never expose your databases to the Internet.…
Duplicate waypoint name caused UK air traffic outage – Software
A one-in-15-million flight plan downed both the primary and backup systems that manage UK flight plans, causing the August 28 outage that led to more…
Smart chastity device exposes sensitive user data
We take a look at reports of an IoT chastity cage device which is exposing user data. A security breach or piece of inadvertent exposure…
X wants your biometric data
We take a look at plans to voluntarily upload identification to X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Users of X (formerly Twitter) paying for…
Mac users targeted in new malvertising campaign delivering Atomic Stealer
While malvertising delivering infostealers has largely been a Windows problem, Mac users are getting targeted as well. Summary Malicious ads for Google searches are targeting…
Defence Housing Australia investigates third-party provider hack exposure – Security
Defence Housing Australia has launched an investigation to determine if it, or the data of Australian Defence personnel, has been exposed in a cyber attack…
The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key allowed the attackers to access…
Crash log exposed Microsoft Outlook keys to threat actor – Security
A security key written to a “crash dump” and then accessed by a compromised engineer account was the root cause of a Microsoft security exposure…
Toyota plants shut down after database maintenance work exhausted disk space – Software – Storage
Toyota Motor Corporation was forced to suspend operations at its Japanese plants late last month after database maintenance work caused it to run out of…