Welcome to another Afternoon Dessert breakout:
Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed EU subsea cables
A major internet subsea cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, causing connectivity problems in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including data packet losses and increased website response latency. [...]
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Women in Cryptology – USPS celebrates WW2 codebreakers
What did you do in the war, Mom? Oh, y'know, a bit of this and that...
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Health system data breach due to Meta Pixel hits 3 million patients
Advocate Aurora Health (AAH), a 26-hospital healthcare system in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois, is notifying its patients of an unintentional data breach that impacts 3,000,000 individuals. [...]
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OldGremlin hackers use Linux ransomware to attack Russian orgs
OldGremlin, one of the few ransomware groups attacking Russian corporate networks, has expanded its toolkit with file-encrypting malware for Linux machines. [...]
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Google sued over biometric data collection without consent
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has sued Google for allegedly collecting and using biometric data belonging to millions of Texans without proper consent. [...]
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OldGremlin Ransomware Targeted Over a Dozen Russian Entities in Multi-Million Scheme
A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. "The group's victims include companies in sectors such as logistics, industry, insurance, retail, real estate, software development, and banking," Group-IB said in an exhaustive report
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Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
Google on Thursday announced that it's seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, also known as GUAC, as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the software supply chain. "GUAC addresses a need created by the burgeoning efforts across the ecosystem to generate software build, security, and dependency metadata," Brandon Lum, Mihai
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S3 Ep105: WONTFIX! The MS Office cryptofail that “isn’t a security flaw” [Audio + Text]
The coolest video game ever! And lots of solid cybersecurity advice - listen now!
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Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed EU subsea cables
A major internet subsea cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, causing connectivity problems in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including data packet losses and increased website response latency. [...]
Read more....
Women in Cryptology – USPS celebrates WW2 codebreakers
What did you do in the war, Mom? Oh, y'know, a bit of this and that...
Read more....
Health system data breach due to Meta Pixel hits 3 million patients
Advocate Aurora Health (AAH), a 26-hospital healthcare system in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois, is notifying its patients of an unintentional data breach that impacts 3,000,000 individuals. [...]
Read more....
OldGremlin hackers use Linux ransomware to attack Russian orgs
OldGremlin, one of the few ransomware groups attacking Russian corporate networks, has expanded its toolkit with file-encrypting malware for Linux machines. [...]
Read more....
Google sued over biometric data collection without consent
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has sued Google for allegedly collecting and using biometric data belonging to millions of Texans without proper consent. [...]
Read more....
OldGremlin Ransomware Targeted Over a Dozen Russian Entities in Multi-Million Scheme
A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. "The group's victims include companies in sectors such as logistics, industry, insurance, retail, real estate, software development, and banking," Group-IB said in an exhaustive report
Read more....
Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
Google on Thursday announced that it's seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, also known as GUAC, as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the software supply chain. "GUAC addresses a need created by the burgeoning efforts across the ecosystem to generate software build, security, and dependency metadata," Brandon Lum, Mihai
Read more....
S3 Ep105: WONTFIX! The MS Office cryptofail that “isn’t a security flaw” [Audio + Text]
The coolest video game ever! And lots of solid cybersecurity advice - listen now!
Read more....