cybersecurity

After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude

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On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, the epicenter of the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, where dozens of companies were advertising their wares.  In the first row and with one of the biggest booths stood CrowdStrike, a company that has recently become […]

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Student raised security concerns in Mobile Guardian MDM weeks before cyberattack

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A person claiming to be a student in Singapore publicly posted documentation showing lax security in a widely popular school mobile device management service called Mobile Guardian, weeks before a cyberattack on the company resulted in the mass-wiping of student devices and widespread disruption. In an email with TechCrunch, the student — who declined to

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Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say

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Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the devices’ cameras and microphones, new research has found. Security researchers Dennis Giese and Braelynn are due to speak at the Def Con hacking conference on Saturday detailing their research into Ecovacs robots. When

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How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang

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Earlier this year, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies took control of the dark web site of the notorious ransomware gang LockBit, replacing its content with the now-familiar message from the authorities: “This site is now under the control of law enforcement.” The operation didn’t disrupt the group’s operation for too long, with the

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Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms

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A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two companies received the decryption keys to unscramble their data without having to pay the cybercriminals a ransom, and four hacked

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Home security giant ADT says it was hacked

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ADT confirmed this week that it was recently hacked, compromising some customer data. The home security company did not say when the cyberattack and data breach occurred, but disclosed that the attackers accessed the company’s databases containing customer home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers. In a brief regulatory filing published late Wednesday, ADT said

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Hackers could spy on cellphone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say

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A group of researchers say they have uncovered a series of security flaws in different 5G basebands — essentially processors used by cellphones to connect to mobile networks — which could have allowed hackers to stealthily hack victims and spy on them.  The researchers from Pennsylvania State University presented their findings at the Black Hat

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UK data watchdog fines NHS vendor Advanced for security failures prior to LockBit ransomware attack

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U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of people later stolen in a ransomware attack. In a statement, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) said it issued the fine after determining

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Cyberattack knocks Mobile Guardian MDM offline and wipes thousands of student devices

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A cyberattack on Mobile Guardian, a U.K.-based provider of educational device management software, has sparked outages at schools across the world and left thousands of students unable to access their files.  Mobile Guardian acknowledged the cyberattack in a statement on its website, saying it identified “unauthorized access to the iOS and ChromeOS devices enrolled to

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How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable

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A cyberattack on the U.K. Electoral Commission that resulted in the data breach of voter register records on 40 million people was entirely preventable had the organization used basic security measures, according to the findings from a damning report by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog published this week. The report published by the U.K.’s Information

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