- Apple will require court order to give push notification data to law enforcement
December 13, 2023
Apple will now require a court order or search warrant to give push notification data to law enforcement in a shift from the previous practice of accepting a subpoena to hand over data. In Apple’s guidelines, which are made publicly available online, the company said the Apple ID, which is a user’s Apple account, and the ...
- Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Exploiting JetBrains TeamCity CVE Globally
December 13, 2023
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and partners assess Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors – also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 (APT 29), the Dukes, CozyBear, and NOBELIUM/Midnight Blizzard – are exploiting CVE-2023-42793 a at a large scale, targeting servers hosting JetBrains TeamCity software since September 2023. Software developers use TeamCity software ...
- U.K. MoD breach of Afghans’ data ‘could have posed threat to life in Taliban’s hands’
December 13, 2023
The Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 for an “egregious” data breach that exposed the personal information of Afghan nationals seeking to flee to the UK after the Taliban takeover. Details belonging to 265 people were mistakenly copied in to emails sent by the Government, meaning they could be seen by all recipients, the Information ...
- How the EU Cyber Resilience Act Impacts Manufacturers
December 12, 2023
The European Union (EU) released their new Cyber Resilience Act which is claimed to be the first ever act put in place to ensure consumers are better protected by the manufacturers of both hardware and software products sold within the EU. This is a first since in the past the onus has been on the consumer ...
- The sound of you typing on your keyboard could reveal your password
December 12, 2023
As if password authentication’s coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. The technique, developed at Durham University, the University of Surrey, and Royal Holloway University of London, builds on previous work to produce a more accurate way to guess your password by listening to ...
- Kyivstar explains network failure by hacker attack, subscriber data not compromised
December 12, 2023
A failure in the network of Ukraine’s largest telecoms operator Kyivstar, which occurred on Tuesday morning, was caused by a hacker attack, but subscriber data was not compromised, the company involved law enforcement agencies and special government services in eliminating the failure, and promises compensation to customers. “On the morning of December 12, the Kyivstar communications ...
- Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud hacked
December 12, 2023
In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According to vx-underground, the hackers claimed to have stolen 70,000 pictures of customers taken from cameras embedded in the ATMs, as well as the personal data of 300,000 customers, which ...
- USAF cracks down on ‘need to know’ violations in wake of Discord leaks
December 12, 2023
Just because you’re cleared for secrets doesn’t mean you have a “need to know” them. After hundreds of classified documents were leaked earlier this year, the U.S. Air Force is trying to ensure that airmen clear both bars before they access sensitive information. The service has “implemented several reforms to improve procedures related to need to ...
- Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games suffers ransomware attack
December 12, 2023
Insomniac Games, the studio behind titles including Spyro, Ratchet & Clank and Marvel’s Spider-Man, has been breached by the Rhysidia ransomware group. Rhysidia shared screenshots of the stolen on its TOR site, including imagery from Insomniac’s upcoming game, Marvel’s Wolverine. Personal data like passport scans of current and former employees also appears to be included, as ...
- Russian diplomat accuses West of patronizing Ukrainian IT army that commits cybercrime
December 12, 2023
The US-led West supervises Ukraine’s so-called IT army that may be responsible for cybercrime, Russia’s representative Irina Tyazhlova said on Monday. Addressing a meeting of the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs), she said: “Other numerous malicious activities with the use of ICTs were ...
- US healthcare giant Norton says hackers stole millions of patients’ data during ransomware attack
December 11, 2023
Kentucky-based nonprofit healthcare system Norton Healthcare has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of millions of patients and employees during an earlier ransomware attack. Norton operates more than 40 clinics and hospitals in and around Louisville, Kentucky, and is the city’s third-largest private employer. The organization has more than 20,000 employees, and more than 3,000 ...