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Keep boxes updated and protected to avoid a NAS-ty shock QNAP is warning users about another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks against its network-attached storage (NAS) devices – and urged customers to update their devices' QTS or QuTS hero operating systems to the latest versions.…
Just cryptocurrency things A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Inverse Finance has been robbed of cryptocurrency somehow exchangeable for $1.2 million, just two months after being taken for $15.6 million.…
With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade and a bounty on healthcare providers, privacy is key A group of senators wants to make it illegal for data brokers to sell sensitive location and health information of individuals' medical treatment.…
$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims A Russian operated botnet known as RSOCKS has been shut down by the US Department of Justice acting with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It is believed to have compromised millions of computers and other devices around the globe.…
Redmond's security brand extended to multiple devices without stomping on other solutions Microsoft is extending the Defender brand with a version aimed at families and individuals.…
Campaigners fear erosion of rights as narrowing of law proposed as well as political control over independent watchdog The UK government has published its plans for reforming local data protection law which includes removing the requirement for consent for all website cookies – akin to the situation across much of the US.…
Does your disaster recovery plan include a mysterious missive at a funeral? On Call Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the "hit by a bus" scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the grave? One Register reader has. Welcome to On Call.…
1,770 premises raided, 2,000 arrested, $50m seized Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested about 2,000 people and seized $50 million in a sweeping operation crackdown of social engineering and other scam operations around the globe.…
That, and Black Hat, are about to reveal risk assessment skills of our cyber-risk experts RSA Conference Quick show of hands: who came home from this year's RSA Conference without COVID-19?…
POS and online ordering vendor StoreHub offered free Asian info takeaways Researchers at security product recommendation service Safety Detectives claim they’ve found almost a million customer records wide open on an Elasticsearch server run by Malaysian point-of-sale software vendor StoreHub.…
WhatsApp messages possibly the worst Father's Day present in the world There's no such thing as free beer for Father's Day — at least not from Heineken. The brewing giant confirmed that a contest circulating on WhatsApp, which promises a chance to win one of 5,000 coolers full of green-bottled lager, is a frothy fraud.…
Brains to be added to the Customer Security and Trust in defense against 'foreign adversaries' Microsoft has opened its wallet once more to pick up New York-based cyber-threat analyst Miburo.…
Just what we needed: a threat to rival Anonymous A Malaysia-linked hacktivist group has attacked targets in India, seemingly in reprisal for a representative of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) making remarks felt to be insulting to the prophet Muhammad.…
Microsoft details this ransomware-as-a-service Two of the more prolific cybercriminal groups, which in the past have deployed such high-profile ransomware families as Conti, Ryuk, REvil and Hive, have started adopting the BlackCat ransomware-as-as-service (RaaS) offering.…
Plus: Intel, AMD react to Hertzbleed data-leaking holes in CPUs Patch Tuesday Microsoft claims to have finally fixed the Follina zero-day flaw in Windows as part of its June Patch Tuesday batch, which included security updates to address 55 vulnerabilities.…
Pair's multimillion-dollar contract caper unraveled A former Maryland Cabinet-level official and a former IT executive have pleaded guilty to involvement in a bribery and extortion scheme related to technology contracts about a decade ago.…
26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred only two months ago.…
Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks.…
Redmond kicks off Patch Tuesday with a months-old flaw fix Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers' data and cloud environments at risk by taking far too long to fix critical vulnerabilities in Azure.…
Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use More than two years after England launched a COVID data store, keeping details of National Health Service (NHS) patients, the country's National Data Guardian (NDG) remains unsatisfied with who is accessing the data.…