Ransomware Gangs Are Making It Personal: More Than a Third of Attacks Now Include Threats Against Staff
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When Extortion Moves From Your Servers to Your PeopleRansomware used to be about locked...
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14 Charged, 187 Computers Seized in Texas ‘Laptop Farm’ Crackdown on North Korean Remote Workers: The Briefing
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced its latest move against North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme, in which workers abroad...
Microsoft’s Record 1,400-Flaw Patch Tuesday at a Glance, Plus a Checklist for Small IT Teams
Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday is the biggest it has ever shipped, and it lands on teams that were still digesting...
A Hidden Recorder Behind the Boardroom TV: Why the OpenAI Bugging Case Is an Insider-Risk Lesson for Every Company
Most security stories this week are about software flaws. This one is about a television. Federal prosecutors have charged an...
From Japanese Scam Texts to a Court-Ordered Takedown: A Timeline of Microsoft’s Strike on Three Phishing Platforms
The fake “your package is delayed” or “unpaid toll” text rarely comes from a lone scammer. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced...
Attackers Are Breaking Into Fully Patched Ivanti VPNs: What Connect Secure Customers Are Asking
If your staff connect to the office through an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN, this is the week to check on...
Nearly a Third of Monitored Companies Got a Fake ‘IT Support’ Contact on Microsoft Teams
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When the Help Desk Isn’t Really the Help DeskA message pops up in Microsoft...
Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Giant and Food Lion Sites Go Dark After a Network Security Issue: The Briefing
The short versionAhold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based parent of five U.S. grocery chains, says it is dealing with a “security issue”...
A Leftover GitHub Repo Name Was Enough to Hijack npm Packages: The Trusted Publishing Flaw at a Glance
Trusted Publishing was supposed to make the JavaScript package registry npm safer by getting rid of long-lived publishing tokens. Researchers...
Why a Quantum Computing Company Is Paying Up to $1.3 Billion for Network Access Controls
On the surface it is an odd pairing. IonQ, a Maryland company best known for building quantum computers, announced on...
