cybersecurity

Kaspersky resellers deride US government ban: ‘Complete bulls—t’

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Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling in the United States any software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.  Just days after the ban’s announcement, some American companies that are official Kaspersky resellers — or managed service provider (MSP) partners — say they have been left confused, angry and worried […]

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Experts say Telegram’s ’30 engineers’ team is a security red flag

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Over the weekend, a clip from a recent interview with Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov went semi-viral on X (previously Twitter). In the video, Durov tells right-wing personality Tucker Carlson that he is the only product manager at the company, and that he only employs “about 30 engineers.”  Security experts say that while Durov was bragging

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Car dealership outages drag on after CDK cyberattacks

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Software maker CDK says it will take “several days” to bring its systems back online following back-to-back cyberattacks, as car dealerships and auto shops around the U.S. reliant on the company’s software enter a second week of disruption. In a statement, CDK spokesperson Lisa Finney confirmed that the company has “begun the restoration process” of

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Hacker claims to have 30 million customer records from Australian ticket seller giant TEG

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A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale the alleged stolen data from TEG, claiming to have information of 30 million users, including the full name, gender, date of birth, username, hashed passwords,

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U.S. government sanctions Kaspersky executives

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The U.S. government announced Friday sanctions against twelve executives and senior leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky. In a press release, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it designated the twelve company executives to protect internet users against malicious cyber threats. “Today’s action against the leadership of Kaspersky

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US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia 

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The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country, and is asking Americans who use the software to switch to a different provider. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said it imposed the “first of its kind” ban, arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national

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UK national accused of hacking dozens of US companies arrested in Spain

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Spanish police have arrested a British national accused of leading an organized cybercrime group that broke into dozens of U.S. companies.  The unnamed British national, aged 22, was arrested at Palma airport as he was about to leave the country on a charter flight to Naples, Spanish police confirmed in a press release.  In a

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Mandiant says hackers stole a ‘significant volume of data’ from Snowflake customers

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Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data with cloud storage giant Snowflake. Incident response firm Mandiant, which is working with Snowflake to investigate the recent spate of data thefts, said in a blog post Monday that the

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