The Helsinki Times reports: The Helsinki Court of Appeal has overturned the criminal conviction of Ville Tapio, the former CEO of psychotherapy provider Vastaamo, in a case linked to one of Finland’s most serious data breaches. The court ruled on Thursday that Tapio was not criminally liable for alleged data protection failures related to the unauthorised access…
How the notorious Packer-as-a-Service operation built itself into a hydra
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Margi Murphy reports: An alleged member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited from Spain to the US on Wednesday, according to a Department of Justice official. Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, was arrested last year over his alleged involvement in the theft of sensitive data about American consumers and tens of…
As machine identities explode across cloud environments, enterprises report dramatic productivity gains from eliminating static credentials. And only legacy systems remain the weak link. For decades, organizations have relied on static secrets, such as API keys, passwords, and tokens, as unique identifiers for workloads. While this approach provides clear traceability, it creates what security
The Invisible Half of the Identity Universe Identity used to live in one place – an LDAP directory, an HR system, a single IAM portal. Not anymore. Today, identity is fragmented across SaaS, on-prem, IaaS, PaaS, home-grown, and shadow applications. Each of these environments carries its own accounts, permissions, and authentication flows. Traditional IAM and…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a “large-scale campaign” that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, these malicious injects are obfuscated using JSFuck, which refers to an “esoteric and educational programming style” that uses only a limited set of characters to write and execute…
