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A woman in Florida was tricked into giving thousands of dollars to a scammer after her daughter's voice was AI-cloned and used in a scam.

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks. [...]

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.…

No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."…

Since the ongoing “ToolShell” exploitation campaign, in which threat actors attack on-premise Sharpoint servers using a chain of two recently published vulnerabilities[1,2,3], is still on top of the cyber security news[4,5,6,7], I thought it might be a good time to look at the question of how quickly do we – as a global society – actually patch actively-exploited vulnerabilities when it comes to our internet-facing systems.

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A single compromised password brought down KNP Logistics, putting 730 employees out of work and highlighting the devastating impact of cyber attacks on British businesses. One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP Logistics, a Northamptonshire […] The post Weak Password Let Ransomware Gang Destroy 158-Year-Old Company appeared first on Cyber Security News.

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Microsoft announced yesterday that a newly discovered critical remote code execution vulnerability in SharePoint is being exploited. There is no patch available. As a workaround, Microsoft suggests using Microsoft Defender to detect any attacks. To use Defender, you must first configure the AMSI integration to give Defender visibility into SharePoint. Recent versions of SharePoint have the AMSI integration enabled by default.

The recent Co-op cyberattack exposed more than just lax security. It revealed two deeper, systematic problems within the retail sector; an overreliance on vulnerable third party technology, and the unchecked collection of personal data through so-called loyalty schemes. Both deserve scrutiny and even regulation.