Security

A senior U.S. lawmaker says representatives of Elon Musk were granted “full access” to a U.S. Treasury payments system used to disperse trillions of dollars to Americans each year and warned that Musk’s access to the system poses a “national security risk.” Ron Wyden,

Enterprise cybersecurity tools, such as routers, firewalls, and VPNs, exist to protect corporate networks from intruders and malicious hackers, something that is particularly important in today's age of widespread remote and hybrid working.  But while pitched as tools that help organizations

Tata Technologies, a technology and product engineering service company owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Group, has disclosed a ransomware attack that has forced it to suspend some of its services. The Pune-headquartered company said Friday that the incident affected “a few of our IT assets

WhatsApp said on Friday that it had disrupted a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 users, including journalists and members of civil society.  A WhatsApp spokesperson told technewss that the campaign was linked to Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that was acquired in December of last

AngelSense, an assistive technology company that provides location monitoring devices for people with disabilities, was spilling the personally identifiable information and precise location data of its users to the open internet, technewss has learned. The company secured the exposed server on Mo

On Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the United States took down and seized two prominent hacking forums and two other related cybercriminal services.  After the takedown operations were reveale

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies took down two hacking forums that had more than 10 million users, according to Europol, one of the agencies involved in the operation.  On Thursday, Europol and Germany's police the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) announced the seizures of Cr

New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the largest nonprofit blood centers in the United States, says it is experiencing service disruptions after being hit by a ransomware attack.  NYBC said in a statement on Wednesday that the organization detected suspicious activity on its IT systems on Jan

Hackers are exploiting outdated versions of WordPress and plug-ins to alter thousands of websites in an attempt to trick visitors to download and install malware, security researchers have found. The hacking campaign is still “very much live,” Simon Wijckmans, the founder and CEO of web se

Hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts has agreed to pay $45 million to settle more than a dozen class action lawsuits after hackers stole personal data on millions of customers in two separate cyberattacks. MGM agreed to the settlement on January 21, according to a recent court filing, as first repor

When it comes to the world of cybersecurity, identity is often thought of as a “perimeter” around an organization. So many breaches begin through techniques like password theft, phishing, and credential stuffing; ergo, securing the identities of not only users, but also applications and machine

Apple released the latest updates for its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems on Monday, which included switching on Apple Intelligence by default for newer devices.  As part of this batch of software updates, Apple also released several patches fixing security bugs, including a zero-day bug

U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has begun notifying individuals affected by a December 2024 data breach that likely affects millions of students and teachers across North America. PowerSchool said in a brief update on Monday that it had started the process of filing legally required regulatory notif

Cybersecurity company SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in one of its enterprise products to break into its customers’ corporate networks.  SonicWall said in an advisory that the vulnerability in its SMA1000 remote access appliance, which companies u