Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.… READ MORE HERE…
Health details, tax ID numbers, even images of checks were stolen, reportedly by the Interlock gang Ransomware scum breached kidney dialysis firm Davita’s labs database in April and stole about 2.4 million people’s personal and health-related information.… READ MORE HERE…
Pro tip: When taking revenge, don’t use your real name A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.… READ MORE HERE…
Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It’s been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced in Congress actually manages to pass. … READ MORE HERE…
Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn’t have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.… READ MORE HERE…
Snarfing up config files for ‘thousands’ of devices…just for giggles, we’re sure The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.… READ MORE HERE…
Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald’s staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger’s marketing materials, and could allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing.… READ MORE HERE…
Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence Criminals exploiting a critical vulnerability in open source Apache ActiveMQ middleware are fixing the flaw that allowed them access, after establishing persistence on Linux servers.… READ MORE HERE…
Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec Interview Google’s President of Customer Experience, Hayete Gallot, offered some words of comfort to developers who are looking nervously at the rise of AI assistants while also laying out her vision for cloud sovereignty.… READ MORE HERE…
Spy vs spy in the chips Comment Chinese state media called the US an aspiring “surveillance empire” over its proposed use of asset tracking tags to crack down on black-market GPU shipments to the Middle Kingdom.… READ MORE HERE…