Sophos Firewall v21.5: Streamlined management

Apple complained that requests from Meta Platforms for access to its operating software threaten user privacy, in a spat fueled by the European Union’s intensifying efforts to get the iPhone maker to open up to products from tech rivals. The post Apple Complains Meta Requests Risk Privacy in Spat Over EU Efforts to Widen Access…

On May 23, the North Shore University Sleep Disorders Center in New York notified HHS that 13,332 patients were affected by a breach that it coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of data located “Other.” While the number affected might not seem unusually disturbing in this day and age of big breaches, the circumstances of the breach…

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python content at the beginning of the file,” ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki said in a report shared with…

There’s been a state enforcement action against National Public Data, but it’s not for the data breach that resulted in the leak of 2.9 billion records. It’s for failure to register with California as a data broker under the state’s Delete Act. News: February 20, 2025 SACRAMENTO — The Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection…

Bill Toulas reports: Automotive giant Scania confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident where threat actors used compromised credentials to breach its Financial Services systems and steal insurance claim documents. Scania told BleepingComputer that the attackers emailed several Scania employees, threatening to leak the data online unless their demands were met. … Late last week, threat…

Connor Jones reports: Security experts have uncovered a hole in Cl0p’s data exfiltration tool that could potentially leave the cybercrime group vulnerable to attack. The vulnerability in the Python-based software, which was used in the 2023-2024 MOVEit mass data raids, was discovered by Italian researcher Lorenzo N and published by the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL)….