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So if you're heading on holiday with laptop in hand this summer, TechRepublic has spoken to the experts to discover the top tips to keep your digital devices and company data secure. Tim Rawlins, senior adviser and security director at NCC Group, said it is important to talk to your company's security team before travelling with work devices to ensure you're informed of any policies and processes.
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Red Shield VPN, which is focused on providing its services to Russian users, claims it received a note from Apple that says its VPN was removed from the Russian App Store. The email, which the VPN operator shared on X, says Cupertino had to remove the app from the App Store in Russia since the software did not "Conform with all local laws." This is after the Kremlin had apparently spent years trying technological approaches to block the use of the VPN. "Apple's actions, motivated by a desire to retain revenue from the Russian market, actively support an authoritarian regime," Red Shield said in a statement.
Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol hijacking and a route leak. The incident occurred last week and affected 300 networks in 70 countries.
Hackers have leaked what they claim is Ticketmaster barcode data for 166,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, warning that more events would be leaked if a $2 million extortion demand is not paid. Ticketmaster later confirmed the data breach, which they ultimately stated was from their account on Snowflake, a cloud-based data warehousing company used by the enterprise to store databases, process data, and perform analytics.
Exclusive The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. Hanna was told on the Tuesday of that week, the day after Qilin's attack, that despite everything going on, the staff at St Thomas' hospital in London were still planning to go ahead with the skin-sparing mastectomy as previously agreed.
A new ransomware-as-a-service called Eldorado emerged in March and comes with locker variants for VMware ESXi and Windows. Eldorado is a Go-based ransomware that can encrypt both Windows and Linux platforms through two distinct variants with extensive operational similarities.
Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming months. Ghostscript is a Postscript and Adobe PDF interpreter that lets users of *nix, Windows, MacOS, and various embedded OSes and platforms view, print, and convert PDFs and image files.
Identity theft isn't just about stolen credit cards anymore. Today, cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to infiltrate organizations and cause major damage with compromised credentials. The...
French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second...