Collaborate Disseminate
Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe.
That usually means sharing a temporary “first-day” password so employees can access system… Continue reading The Onboarding Password Mistake That Creates Unnecessary Risk
The pharmaceutical giant says the attackers gained access to personal data stored on the compromised systems.
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French officials say roughly 73,000 government accounts were affected, while the threat actor claims to have stolen messages and user data from the sovereign Tchap platform.
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a network of 152 Google Chrome extensions that act as new tab live wallpaper add-ons to distribute a potentially unwanted program (PUP) family.
The cluster spans 38 separate Chrome Web Store publisher accounts… Continue reading 152 Chrome Wallpaper Extensions with 105K Installs Linked to Adware and Fake Traffic
Harriet Alexander and Julie Lewis report: The privacy watchdog has ordered American Express to rectify security flaws in five of its data systems to guard against “insider threats” and to restrict employee access to specific customer information to pro… Continue reading AU: American Express ordered to fix security gaps after customer was spied on
A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.
The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country’s telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity.
The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers, with telecoms being required to collect other information on business and foreign customers like the intended use case of their bulk phone plan purchase and their IP address. But the changes would mean telecoms collect data on all new and renewing customers, and the FCC provides a long list of other things that the collected data could help authorities with…
There are many ways to deal with keys: a bowl next to the entryway, a junk drawer, or you can just leave them in your pockets and hope you remember …read more Continue reading Wooden Piano Keys Hold Your Less-Wooden, Not-Piano Keys
Phishing remains one of the most stubbornly persistent threats in cybersecurity: humans are tired, distracted, trusting, and susceptible to urgency and authority in ways that no amount of awareness training can completely overcome. The security communi… Continue reading PhishLumos: Exposing phishing campaigns that evade detection by hiding content
The extortion group threatens to leak 297 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Council of Europe, including employee personal information.
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Modat has launched native Passive DNS intelligence in Magnify, its internet intelligence platform, unifying IP, device fingerprint, certificate, and passive DNS into a single pivot-driven investigation flow. Threat intelligence, threat hunting, exposur… Continue reading Modat enhances Magnify with Passive DNS for faster threat hunting and infrastructure analysis