by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 8, 2025 | IT Security
As Trixie gets ready to début, a little-known app is hogging the limelight: StarDict, which sends whatever text you select, unencrypted, to servers in China. A discussion on the oss-security mailing list on OpenWall highlights an interesting feature of an apparently...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 8, 2025 | IT Security
A sky-high premium may not always reflect your company’s security posture 08 Aug 2025 • , 3 min. read When a cyber risk insurance quote lands on your desk and the premium is sky high, it’s natural to assume that the insurer is judging your environment to be high...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 8, 2025 | IT Security
Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he’ll experience a “political aneurysm” due to Microsoft’s many security messes. In the last few weeks alone, Microsoft...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 8, 2025 | IT Security
Is your phone suddenly flooded with aggressive ads, slowing down performance or leading to unusual app behavior? Here’s what to do. 08 Aug 2025 • , 5 min. read There are various bad things that could end up on your smartphone. Spyware designed to turn your phone...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 8, 2025 | IT Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the cybercrime gang behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations had breached hundreds of U.S. companies before being taken down last month. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), DHS’s main...
by Syndicated News Feed | Aug 7, 2025 | IT Security
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it’s much easier and cheaper just to hack them. In a briefing at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Milenko Starcik and Andrzej Olchawa from German biz...
