Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore authorised more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer successfully impersonated a vendor…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is splintering: law enforcement takedowns of large operations are scattering affiliates and prompting rebrands, which in turn…
Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync Summary A reader-contributed On Call tale: an air-gapped lab had servers whose clocks were more than…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary Senior officials have been summoned to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee after a previously secret 2023 Information…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Click Studios has released Passwordstate build 9972 to address two security issues: a clickjacking vulnerability affecting its browser extension and…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China‑based engineers to support Azure cloud services used by US…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon said it disrupted a watering-hole campaign by Russia-linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that injected malicious JavaScript…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Summary White-hat researcher Bobdahacker discovered that Pudu Robotics left admin controls wide open in its backend, allowing…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A newly published filing to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal suggests the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme that permitted China-based coders, remotely supervised by US…
