News, Miscellaneous News
April 06, 2025
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CYBER KIDS: How Kim Jong-un is grooming world’s best hackers from age of 5 & handpicking them from primary school to target the West 

The Sun reports: KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned. The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks. North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun […]

Vulnerabilities, News
April 05, 2025
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CISA warns of latest Ivanti firewall bug being exploited by suspected Chinese hackers

The Record reports: Another vulnerability impacting firewall products from Ivanti is being exploited by alleged China-based hackers. An Ivanti advisory released on Thursday confirmed that a “limited number of customers” have been attacked through a bug impacting its Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways tools — which are used by large organizations and government clients to […]

News
April 02, 2025
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DOGE official at justice department ‘bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software’

Reuters reports: A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is working in the US justice department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters. Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at Musk’s social media company X and space launch company SpaceX, is […]

Data Breach News, News
April 02, 2025
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Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest cyber threat

The Record reports: For nearly six years, Gen. Paul Nakasone led two of the most powerful — and secretive — arms of American national security: the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. One listens. The other talks back. Under the first Trump administration, Cyber Command got something it never had before: the green light not just to defend, […]

Legal News, Critical Infrastructure, News
April 01, 2025
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UK sets out new cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure

The Record reports that in a policy statement published Tuesday, the British government set out what its forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will include when it is introduced to parliament later this year: The belated reworking of the country’s cybersecurity regulations comes three years after the previous government had prematurely described those laws as “updated” while […]

Data Breach News, News
March 29, 2025
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Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals

They publicly denied, denied, denied having a breach of Oracle Cloud after someone put data up for sale, but while Oracle was publicly denying any breach, their customers and researchers were confirming that there had been one. Now we learn that Oracle Health had been telling some hospitals and healthcare clients that there had been […]

Healthcare, News
March 29, 2025
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Global Healthcare Faces Unprecedented Cybersecurity Crisis: Top 10 Countries at Highest Risk

Black Book Market Research unveiled results from its comprehensive Q1 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 1,200 healthcare administrators. The 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Risk ranking identified the United States, India, Brazil, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico as the 10 countries facing the greatest cybersecurity threats. Leading the list, the […]

Data Breach News, News
March 25, 2025
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

Unbelievable. And this wasn’t a one-time human error. It went on over time. Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reports: The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack […]

Critical Infrastructure, Cyberattack, News
March 23, 2025
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Trump Administration Begins Shifting Cyberattack Response to States

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration wants state and local governments to play a bigger role in protecting water utilities, ports and other critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump directed White House senior security advisers to draw up a national resilience plan to protect critical infrastructure that […]

Data Breach News, News
March 22, 2025
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Did they or didn’t they? Oracle denies breach after hacker claims theft of 6 million data records

BleepingComputer reports: Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company’s Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers. “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or […]