Indian IT Services workforce set to return to office amidst labor issues
After months of working from home, India’s IT services industry expects employees to return to the office for at least three days a week from October 10. Wipro’s email to its India-based staff this week states that from October 10, offices will be open all weekdays except Wednesday to enable personal connections. “We encourage you […]
Avast releases free decryptor for variants of Hades ransomware
Avast has published a decryptor for variants of the Hades ransomware after they discovered a bug in the encryption scheme of the Hades strain which made it possible to unlock some of the variants. The Avast decryptor only supports files that are encrypted by certain variants of the Hades ransomware family. These variants include identified […]
Amazon sues Washington State over fines and citations
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries after disagreeing with regulators over citations and fines it received for workplace safety and warehousing policies that violate the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Amazon wants to prevent the Washington Department of Labor and Industries from issuing orders to correct […]
Tucson City becomes the latest victim of data breach
The City of Tucson, Arizona, has revealed it was the victim of a data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 125,000 people. According to a data breach notification sent to affected individuals, an attacker broke into the city’s network between May 17 and 31 and exfiltrated an unspecified number of files containing […]
White House unveils AI bill
President Joe Biden unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights that outlines five protections Americans should have in the age of artificial intelligence. The bill aims to make AI more accountable to avert harm from the rise of artificial intelligence, including policies to protect personal data and limit surveillance. According to the draft law, the […]
Chase Bank users in the United Kingdom can’t access mobile apps
A mysterious outage of Chase Bank’s virtual current accounts has left U.K. customers unable to access their accounts or open new ones. Chase Bank in the United Kingdom is a mobile app-only offering without physical branches, and the app is the primary means for customers to access, trade or communicate with the bank. The app […]
Google’s former ad chief launches tracker-free search engine Neeva in Europe
Neeva, an ad and tracker-free search engine, will launch in the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday, extending its reach after launching in the United States last year. Neeva, which has raised $77.5 million in funding from investors, offers a free search, with other features such as password-manager access and virtual-private-network (VPN) service based […]
BlackByte ransomware exploit legit driver using BYOD technique
BlackByte ransomware is using the “Bring Your Own Driver” technique to exploit an MSI Afterburner RTCore64.sys driver error, which is tracked as CVE-2019-16098. The flaw is a privilege escalation and code execution flaw. Exploiting the security issue enabled BlackByte to disable drivers that prevent multiple endpoints from being detected and response (EDR) and antivirus products […]
Key findings of the 2022 State of the Threat report
Among the main findings of the State of the Threat Report in 2022 is the fact that ransomware remains the primary threat to private and public organizations, and hack-and-leak continues to offer an attractive package for hackers. Ransomware is still a primary threat with the median detection for ransomware attacks in 2022 standing at 4.5 […]
Telstra Telecom employee information uploaded online after data breach
Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, has become the latest telecommunications company to deal with a data breach after thousands of employee personal data were uploaded to the dark web almost two weeks after Optus reported its own breach. “There has been no breach of Telstra’s systems and no customer account data was involved,” Narelle Devine, […]
