The Hindustan Times reports: The Kerala Police Crime Branch’s move to seize the mobile phone of Aniru Ashokan, a reporter from a Malayalam daily, has triggered a wave of support from local journalists across the state. According to PTI, the Crime Branch’s action came after the journalist reported on the alleged breach of sensitive data…
The European General Court on Wednesday fined the European Commission, the primary executive arm of the European Union responsible for proposing and enforcing laws for member states, for violating the bloc’s own data privacy regulations. The development marks the first time the Commission has been held liable for infringing stringent data protection laws in the…
SophosAI’s framework for upgrading the performance of LLMs for cybersecurity tasks (or any other specific task) is now open source.
Ransomware isn’t slowing down—it’s getting smarter. Encryption, designed to keep our online lives secure, is now being weaponized by cybercriminals to hide malware, steal data, and avoid detection.The result? A 10.3% surge in encrypted attacks over the past year and some of the most shocking ransom payouts in history, including a $75 million ransom in…
Consolidating from an overly burdensome number of point solutions to an easier to manage platform-based approach brings with it a number of benefits. The post Rationalizing the Stack: The Case for Security Vendor Consolidation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The online world never takes a break, and this week shows why. From ransomware creators being caught to hackers backed by governments trying new tricks, the message is clear: cybercriminals are always changing how they attack, and we need to keep up. Hackers are using everyday tools in harmful ways, hiding spyware in trusted apps,…
Proof-of-concept (PoC) code was published for CVE-2024-49113, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows LDAP. The post Exploit Code Published for Potentially Dangerous Windows LDAP Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
