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China's infosec researchers obeyed Beijing and stopped reporting vulns ... or did they?
Report finds increase in anonymous vuln reports
The number of vulnerability reports provided by Chinese information security researchers has fallen sharply, according to research by think tank The Atlantic Council, which also found a strangely commensurate increase in bug reports from unknown sources.…
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Ukraine fears 'massive' Russian cyberattacks on power, infrastructure
Will those be before or after the nuke strikes Putin keeps banging on about?
Russia plans to conduct "massive cyberattacks" on Ukraine and its allies' critical infrastructure and energy sector, according to Kyiv.…
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SQL Server admins warned about Fargo ransomware
From small town in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty
Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up.…
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How do you run rings around ransomware?
Build data resilience in the cloud first
Webinar It's critical to protect data from infection or exposure to ransomware. The risks are all too clear and the consequences of inattention, weak foundations, and lack of strategic preparation can be catastrophic.…
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An expert guide to securing APIs
How Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) can help you sleep at night
Webinar The application programming interface (API) has been around pretty much as long as computing itself, but it's perhaps only since the early years of the millennium that its use exploded with a mass shift to web applications.…
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India seeks verified IDs to register email accounts
PLUS: Warnings on Chinese payment schemes; AWS brushes up its Cantonese; Hong Kong ponders digital dollar; and more!
Asia In Brief India's government last week released a draft telco law that defines all over-the-top services as telecoms providers and therefore makes them subject to the same regulations imposed on carriers.…
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Noberus ransomware gets info-stealing upgrades, targets Veeam backup software
'One of the most dangerous and active malware developers operating at the moment'
Crooks spreading the Noberus ransomware are adding weapons to their malware to steal data and credentials from compromised networks.…
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Open up, it's the IRS. We're here about the crypto tax you dodged
'At least ten' people didn't declare coin income. Wow, what a bust
The IRS has been granted a court order to collect records from a bank the agency said will help it identify US taxpayers who failed to report taxable income from crypto trades. …
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Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco
Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?'
Updated Australian telecommunications company Optus has fallen victim to a significant cyberattack and data breach.…
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Iran blocks Whatsapp, Instagram as citizens protest death of Mahsa Amini
Also: New 'magnet of threats' attackers and FBI has details on Iran's online incursion into Albania
Iran is experiencing a near-total internet service disruption in the west and intermittent interruptions nationwide, with access to Instagram, Whatsapp and some mobile networks being blocked, says Netblocks.…
