by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 4, 2025 | IT Security
The infosec program run by the US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) “is not effective,” according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). A summary of the report, dated October 31 and published on Monday,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community. This story starts in 2018, when US authorities charged the operator of a Canadian company called “Phantom...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
The Balancer Protocol announced that hackers had targeted its v2 pools, with losses reportedly estimated to be more than $128 million. Balancer is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain as an automated market maker and liquidity...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Three former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies DigitalMint and Sygnia have been indicted for allegedly hacking the networks of five U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks between May 2023 and November 2023. 28-year-old Kevin Tyler...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
Feature It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours. Cities were plunged into darkness. Trains stopped and...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 3, 2025 | IT Security
When every minute counts, preparation and precision can mean the difference between disruption and disaster 03 Nov 2025 • , 5 min. read Network defenders are feeling the heat. The number of data breaches Verizon investigated last year, as a share of overall...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 2, 2025 | IT Security
Infosec in brief Australia’s Signals Directorate (ASD) last Friday warned that attackers are installing an implant named “BADCANDY” on unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices and can detect deletion of their wares and reinstall their malware. The ASD’s advisory says unknown...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 2, 2025 | IT Security
A hacker has taken responsibility for last week’s University of Pennsylvania “We got hacked” email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents. On Friday, University of...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 1, 2025 | IT Security
Google Ads are not going anywhere. Eventually, AI Search results on Google and likely other properties will have ads. Google recently reported $56.57 billion in revenue from ads on Search and YouTube. You obviously can’t expect ads to disappear from its search...
by Syndicated News Feed | Nov 1, 2025 | IT Security
Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 is now rolling out to testers in the Insider Program, and there are at least three new features, including Ask Copilot on the taskbar. Up until now, you could access Copilot on Windows 11 via the app or browser, but now you can use a new...
