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After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.… Continue reading Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts
And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help thei… Continue reading Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka access to backdoors
Don’t get too comfortable: ‘Line Dancer’ malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and “sophisticated” nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked networ… Continue reading Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
Doctorow: ‘The most amazing part is that this isn’t already the way it’s done’ Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely e… Continue reading Shouldn’t Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
Secure-by-default… if your pockets are deep enough Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company’s own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.… Continue reading Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers?
The firm ‘fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged… Continue reading Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner’s… Continue reading Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans
Their holiday options are now far more restricted The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies … Continue reading US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past priv… Continue reading If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?
The ‘big victory for the good guys’ shouldn’t be celebrated too much, though The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today.… Continue reading Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever