SFW! The Top N Cybersecurity Stories of 2021 (for small positive integer values of N) December 24, 2021
Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability December 21, 2021
US bags Russian accused of stealing millions after stealing pre-release financial filings December 20, 2021
Serious Security: OpenSSL fixes “error conflation” bugs – how mixing up mistakes can lead to trouble December 17, 2021
Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets December 17, 2021
East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries December 16, 2021
National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov December 16, 2021
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard December 16, 2021
As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others December 15, 2021
US lawmakers want to put NSO Group, 3 other spyware makers out of business with fresh severe sanctions December 15, 2021
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild December 15, 2021
Apache takes off, nukes insecure feature at the heart of Log4j from orbit with v2.16 December 14, 2021
You may have cracked serverless development, but it’s almost certain you haven’t solved serverless security December 14, 2021
MPs charged with analysing Online Safety Bill say end-to-end encryption should be called out as ‘specific risk factor’ December 14, 2021
Log4j RCE latest: In case you hadn’t noticed, this is Really Very Bad, exploited in the wild, needs urgent patching December 13, 2021
Timekeeping biz Kronos hit by ransomware and warns customers to engage biz continuity plans December 13, 2021
Irish Health Service ransomware attack happened after one staffer opened malware-ridden email December 10, 2021
Log4j RCE: Emergency patch issued to plug critical auth-free code execution hole in widely-used logging utility December 10, 2021
Resistance is … cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response ‘n’ cyber insurance borg December 9, 2021
Cryptominers aren’t just a headache – they’re a big neon sign that Bad Things are on your network December 7, 2021
Foreign Office IT chaos: Shocking testimony reveals poor tech support hindered Afghan evac attempts December 7, 2021
Spar shops across northern UK shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities December 6, 2021
Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack December 3, 2021
Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others’ songs to steal YouTube royalty payments December 3, 2021
Protecting your critical infrastructure is one thing…protecting your backups is the same thing December 3, 2021
Mozilla patches critical “BigSig” cryptographic bug: Here’s how to track it down and fix it December 3, 2021
Netgear router flaws exploitable with authentication … like the default creds on Netgear’s website December 3, 2021
S3 Ep61: Call scammers, cloud insecurity, and facial recognition creepiness [Podcast] December 2, 2021
New UK product security law won’t be undercut by rogue traders upping and vanishing, government boasts December 2, 2021
Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark December 2, 2021
Rewriting your disaster recovery plan might just save your company…and could transform it December 1, 2021
UK watchdog’s punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private December 1, 2021
UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond’s in-house ‘Q’ is nonsense December 1, 2021
It’s the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected November 30, 2021
Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers November 30, 2021
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot’s death-defying ejection November 30, 2021
Lloyd’s of London suggests insurers should not cover ‘retaliatory cyber operations’ between nation states November 30, 2021