Data center ransomware. Third-party breach hits telco customers. Buran and Buer on the black market. The Great Canon opens fire. Russia trolls Lithuania. Big bad BEC.

Data center ransomware. Third-party breach hi...

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A long day without bars.

Verizon hit by a major wireless outage. Poland blocks an attack on its power grid. A massive database of French citizens exposed. Microsoft shuts down a cybercrime-as-a-service operation. The UK backs away from digital ID plans. California probes Grok deepfakes. The FTC settles w ...  Show more

CVEs don’t sleep.

Patch Tuesday fallout, China sidelines Western security vendors, and a critical flaw puts industrial switches at risk of remote takeover. A ransomware attack disrupts a Belgian hospital, crypto scams hit investment clients, and Eurail discloses a data breach. Analysts press Congr ...  Show more

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