Category Security

Sports retail giant Intersport, with nearly 6,000 stores in 57 countries around the world, was hit by a ransomware attack that disabled checkout in France during what was supposed to be one of the busiest times of the year. Shoppers…

Password management giant LastPass has revealed that hackers who broke into the company in August stole encrypted customer vault data and unencrypted account information. This update comes after the company first said the incident only resulted in a compromise of…

January 2, 2023Rabbi Lakshmanansupply chain / machine learning The maintainer of the PyTorch package warns users who installed nightly builds of the library between Dec 25th, 2022 and Dec 30th, 2022 to uninstall and download the latest version due to…

Graham Cluley Security News reported this week, moveThank you to the amazing team for your support! Device security is much like Everest and difficult to scale. For a small company dominated by engineers, trust and spreadsheets are all you need…

The UK’s data protection watchdog has accused several newspaper editors of misrepresenting the nature of the draft code of conduct for journalists. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is currently working with the media industry to develop a journalism code of…

January 2, 2023Rabbi LakshmananOnline Fraud / Cyber ​​Security Chinese students in the UK have been targeted by Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year. Redze (aka Red Thief). As cybersecurity researcher Will Thomas (@BushidoToken) wrote in an article published last week,…

Drug dealers get stuck while using the Encrochat encrypted messaging app. We put the Lensa AI avatar generation tool under the microscope. All of this is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans…

US President Joe Biden signed into law this week (December 21, 2022) the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Readiness Act. The legislation is designed to protect federal systems and data from the threat of quantum-enabled data breaches ahead of “Q Day,” the…

January 2, 2023Rabbi LakshmananPrivacy / Location Tracking Google has agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two separate lawsuits filed by the states of Indiana and Washington, DC over “deceptive” location tracking practices. Search and advertising giants…

Microsoft warned that malicious hackers were able to get the software giant to digitally sign their code, so it could be used for attacks such as deploying ransomware. In an advisory published on Microsoft’s website coinciding with the release of…