Industry Spotlight
USDA Worker, 5 Others Charged in Food Stamp Fraud Operation
Six New York residents were charged with running a complex scheme that involved fraudulent documentation and unauthorized payment systems to steal as much as $30 million from the country's food stamp program ...
Victoria’s Secret Hit By ‘Security Incident’ After Attacks on UK Retailers
Victoria's Secret took down its U.S. website this week after an unspecified security incident that cybersecurity experts believe is related to similar attacks on UK retailers earlier this month by the high-profile ...
Microsoft Opens Windows Update to 3rd-Party Apps
A breath of fresh air: Security fixes and other updates will be “orchestrated” by Redmond’s own update tool ...
RSA and Bitcoin at BIG Risk from Quantum Compute
PQC PDQ: Researchers find we’ll need 20 times fewer qubits to break conventional encryption than previously believed ...
Signal Gives Microsoft a Clear Signal: Do NOT Recall This
Black screen of DRM: Privacy-first messenger blocks Microsoft Recall ...
Coinbase Says Breach May Cost $400 Million, Issues $20 Million Bounty
The major data breach of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase could cost the company as much as $400 million, it told the SEC. However, rather than pay the $20 million extortion demand, Coinbase issued ...
Warning to US Retail: ‘Scattered Spider’ Targets YOU (with DragonForce Ransomware)
Arachnid alarm: Three major British retailers recently attacked, resulting in huge damage. Now we see the self-same scum spotlighting stores in the States ...
As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live
Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) launches this week. And not a moment too soon ...
SMBs Know They’re At Risk, but Most Aren’t Embracing AI
A survey by CrowdStrike finds the gap between SMB awareness of cyber threats and efforts by them to protect themselves is widening, with not enough of them spending the money needed on ...
U.S. Wins One, Maybe Two, Extradition Petitions in Unrelated Cases
In short order, U.S. prosecutors won an extradition case to bring a suspect in multiple ransomware cases to the United States and had another in England move in their favor when the ...
