Old-fashioned breaches still exist. Amanda Keenan reports: Health board chiefs have launched a major investigation after brazen thieves stole NHS laptops containing confidential patient data. Around 20 staff devices were snatched from an office block within the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Govan. Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board bosses have been forced to fork out £14,000 to…
Fraser Tennant reports: …. The reality is that M&A practitioners, in their quest to negotiate the best possible deal, may be less focused on the tools that are used to store and share confidential transactional data – both internally and externally. This can leave such data highly vulnerable to hackers with malicious intent. “Threat actors…
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for a massive set of 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including one flaw that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of the release. Of the 111 vulnerabilities, 16 are rated Critical, 92 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low…
Google on Wednesday revealed that it suspended over 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, with a majority of them identified and blocked by its systems before it could serve harmful ads to users. In all, the tech giant said it stopped 5.1 billion bad ads, restricted 9.1 billion ads, and blocked or restricted ads on…
The last round of fixes before Win 10’s final shout touches 15 product families, including Xbox
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is the backbone of modern identity management, enabling secure access to the applications, data, and services your business relies on. As hybrid work and cloud adoption accelerate, Entra ID plays an even more central role — managing authentication, enforcing policy, and connecting users across distributed environments. That prominence…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a variant of a recently disclosed campaign that abuses the TOR network for cryptojacking attacks targeting exposed Docker APIs. Akamai, which discovered the latest activity last month, said it’s designed to block other actors from accessing the Docker API from the internet. The findings build on a prior report from Trend…
