by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security |
Sam’s Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach. The Walmart division operates over 600 warehouse clubs with millions of members across the United States and Puerto Rico...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security |
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has announced a fivefold increase in the maximum bug bounty rewards for “exceptional and differentiated” critical security vulnerabilities from $20,000 to $100,000. OpenAI says its services and platforms are used by...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Cardiff City Council’s director of children’s services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered. Deborah Driffield confirmed a “data breach” while giving an update to the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused problems with Remote Desktop and RDS connections after installing Windows updates released since January 2025. As the company explained when it acknowledged the issues on Monday, affected users experience RDP...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia. Now Mozilla’s doing damage control, too, after spotting a...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 27, 2025 | IT Security
A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!) The video features gloomy music plus narration and text in Russian that claims –...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 27, 2025 | IT Security
The legacy domain for Microsoft Stream was hijacked to show a fake Amazon site promoting a Thailand casino, causing all SharePoint sites with old embedded videos to display it as spam. Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video streaming service that allows organizations...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 27, 2025 | IT Security
The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. The gang also likely targeted a governmental institution in Honduras, along with other...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 27, 2025 | IT Security
In May, Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. The company says the “Startup Boost” task will launch in the background on logon, with the roll-out to start in mid-May...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 27, 2025 | IT Security
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon. The two cameras will be installed in the city center in an effort...
