Aidan Radnedge reports: Harrods has warned some customers that their personal data could have been taken in an IT systems breach – in the latest cyber-attack to hit a major UK firm. The luxury department store based in London’s Knightsbridge said information, such as names and contact details, of its e-commerce customers was taken after…
A month with no Critical-severity Windows bugs is overshadowed by a mass of Mariner mop-up
The insider threat on steroids? Brian Krebs reports: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the…
David Hollingworth reports: The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has revealed that more than 600 submissions and nominations to the commission’s website were accidentally exposed online between April and May 2025. The AHRC became aware of the breach on 10 April, when it discovered that attachments uploaded to its complaint web form between 24 March…
This is a multi-part interview with the individual known as “Nam3L3ss” who leaked more than 100 databases on a popular hacking forum and will soon be leaking many more. Read the Preface. In Part 1, we talked about his background and what motivated him to do what he does. In Part 2, we talked about…
Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address 57 security vulnerabilities in its software, including a whopping six zero-days that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, six are rated Critical, 50 are rated Important, and one is rated Low in severity. Twenty-three of the addressed vulnerabilities are remote…
Taiwan-based Moxa has warned of two security vulnerabilities impacting its cellular routers, secure routers, and network security appliances that could allow privilege escalation and command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-9138 (CVSS 4.0 score: 8.6) – A hard-coded credentials vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user to escalate privileges and gain
