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FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it
2025-01-17 22:07

Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from...

Friday Squid Blogging: Opioid Alternatives from Squid Research
2025-01-17 22:02

Is there nothing that squid research can’t solve? “If you’re working with an organism like squid that can edit genetic information way better than any other organism, then it makes sense that that...

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it
2025-01-17 20:23

Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity...

Otelier data breach exposes info, hotel reservations of millions
2025-01-17 20:17

Hotel management platform Otelier suffered a data breach after threat actors breached its Amazon S3 cloud storage to steal millions of guests' personal information and reservations for well-known...

Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs
2025-01-17 19:16

A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a backdoor for remote control over the system. [...]

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading
2025-01-17 18:32

Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs...

Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban
2025-01-17 17:15

With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its...

Microsoft fixes Office 365 apps crashing on Windows Server systems
2025-01-17 16:59

​Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused Microsoft 365 applications and Classic Outlook to crash on Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019 systems. [...]

US sanctions Chinese firm, hacker behind telecom and Treasury hacks
2025-01-17 16:57

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company...

FCC orders telecoms to secure their networks after Salt Tyhpoon hacks
2025-01-17 16:05

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered U.S. telecommunications carriers to secure their networks following last year's Salt Typhoon security breaches. [...]