Tag: office
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Manpower Data Breach Hits 144K, Workday Confirms 3rd-Party CRM Hack
A cyberattack on Manpower’s Michigan office compromised data for 144,000 people. Meanwhile, Workday reveals a data breach in… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/manpower-data-breach-workday-3rd-party-crm-hack/
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Home Office Phishing Scam Targets UK Immigration Sponsors
The sophisticated campaign aims to steal credentials of sponsor license holders to facilitate immigration fraud, extortion and other monetization schemes First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/home-office-phishing-uk/
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What Manufacturing Leaders Are Learning About Cloud Security – from Google’s Frontline
Vinod D’Souza, Director of Manufacturing and Industry, and Nick Godfrey. Senior Director, both from the Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, discuss the findings of a recent survey of cybersecurity professionals about Securing Manufacturing’s Transition to the Cloud. Improved security is an important driver for moving manufacturing workloads to the cloud for nearly two thirds…
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Ghanaian fraudsters arrested for BEC/Sakawa
In Nigeria, scammers who specialize in Romance Scams and BEC are called “Yahoo Boys.” In Ghana, the term for the same activity is “Sakawa.” Several Ghanaian headlines are talking about this case with headlines such as “Multimillion dollar Sakawa” or “Sakawa Chairman Busted” or “Sakawa Kingpin Bows to Extradition!” On 08AUG2025 the US Attorney’s office…
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Columbia University data breach impacted 868,969 people
Columbia University was hit by a cyberattack, exposing personal data of over 860,000 students, applicants, and employees. Columbia University suffered a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of students, applicants, and employees. According to the data breach notification sent to the Maine Attorney’s General Office, the incident impacted 868,969 people. The organization quickly notified law enforcement.…
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UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases
Tags: officeCampaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/uk_secretly_allows_facial_recognition/
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OpenAI’s new model can’t believe that Trump is back in office
gpt-oss-20b can’t seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/openai_model_election_disinformation/
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Hybrid Exchange environment vulnerability needs fast action
if they haven’t already done so, install the Hot Fix released April 18, or any newer release, on their on-premises Exchange servers and follow the configuration instructions outlined in the document Deploy dedicated Exchange hybrid app. For additional details, they should refer to Exchange Server Security Changes for Hybrid Deployments;then reset the service principal’s keyCredentials. That reset should be…
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Dutch Caribbean islands respond to cyberattacks on courts, tax departments
A ransomware attack on Curaçao’s tax office and an email breach at Aruba’s parliament have put the Dutch Caribbean islands on high alert for cybersecurity issues. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/aruba-curacao-governments-cyberattacks
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Outdated Office apps lose access to voice features in January
Microsoft announced that the transcription, dictation, and read aloud features will stop working in older versions of Office 365 applications in late January 2026. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outdated-office-apps-lose-access-to-voice-features-in-january/
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Sean Cairncross confirmed as national cyber director
The Senate voted 59-35 to place Republican Party insider Sean Cairncross atop the Office of the National Cyber Director, which plays a pivotal role in dictating policy and bolstering U.S. cybersecurity efforts. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/sean-cairncross-confirmed-oncd
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Senate confirms Trump’s national cyber director nominee
Sean Cairncross, a political veteran without significant cybersecurity experience, could turn the relatively new White House office into a major player in the administration First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/sean-cairncross-national-cyber-director-senate-confirmation/756649/
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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Attackers wrap phishing links through URL scanning services to bypass detection
urldefense.proofpoint.com and url.emailprotection.link (Intermedia).”Link wrapping is designed by vendors like Proofpoint to protect users by routing all clicked URLs through a scanning service, allowing them to block known malicious destinations at the moment of click,” Cloudflare researchers wrote in their report on the attacks. “While this is effective against known threats, attacks can still succeed…
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Vergleich Microsoft Defender for Office 365 zu ICES-Software von Drittanbietern
Wie schlägt sich der Microsoft Defender eigentlich im Vergleich zu ICES-Lösungen von Drittanbietern zum Schutz von Microsoft Office 365? Die ICES-Lösungen können ja in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 integriert werden. Die Tage ist mir eine Übersicht Microsoft mit einem … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/08/01/vergleich-microsoft-defender-zu-ices-software-von-drittanbietern/
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Phishing-Kampagne über Proofpoint-Link-Wrapping
Clouddflare hat eine neue Analyse seines Threat-Intel-Teams Cloudforce One veröffentlicht. Der Bericht zeigt, wie Angreifer die Link-Wrapping-Funktion von Proofpoint missbrauchen, um unbemerkt auf verschiedene Phishing-Seiten von Microsoft-Office-365 umzuleiten. Phishing war im vergangenen Jahr erneut die häufigste Ursache für Sicherheitsverletzungen und Identitätsdiebstahl. Diese Technik ist besonders gefährlich und effektiv, da Opfer viel eher auf eine vermeintlich…
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2 Law Group Data Theft Hacks Affect 282,100 Patients
Firm Admits Paying Ransom in Exchange of Hacker’s Promise to Delete Stolen Info. Two Florida-based law firms with offices in other states are notifying 282,100 people whose healthcare and other information was potentially compromised in separate data theft incidents. One of the firms admitted to paying a ransom to prevent its data from being leaked…
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Palo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage
The identity crisis driving this deal: Walk into any CISO’s office these days, and they’ll tell you the same story: hackers don’t need to break down the front door anymore. They just steal legitimate credentials and walk right in.”Today, most breaches originate not from malware or misconfigured ports but from stolen or misused credentials,” Tyagi…
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Palo Alto Networks eyes $20B CyberArk deal as identity security takes center stage
The identity crisis driving this deal: Walk into any CISO’s office these days, and they’ll tell you the same story: hackers don’t need to break down the front door anymore. They just steal legitimate credentials and walk right in.”Today, most breaches originate not from malware or misconfigured ports but from stolen or misused credentials,” Tyagi…
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Saviynt Accelerates Global Expansion in Europe, Asia Pacific, Japan, and the Middle East
Identity security leader Saviynt has announced a major global expansion, opening new offices in London and Singapore, launching dedicated customer operations in Europe, and preparing for a significantly larger presence in India. The moves come amid growing demand for its AI-powered Identity Cloud platform and follow a record-breaking 2024. The expanded footprint underscores Saviynt’s ambitions…
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vCISO In Action: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Beyond Office Walls
With two decades in the industry, Emily O’Carroll reflects on how the threat landscape has evolved, the difference between in-house and virtual CISO work, and why mentoring and finding personal balance are just as important as managing risk. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/vciso-in-action-navigating-cybersecurity-leadership-beyond-office-walls1
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Hackers Breach Intelligence Portal Used by the CIA and Other Agencies
Unidentified hackers have successfully compromised a critical intelligence website operated by the National Reconnaissance Office, marking a significant security breach affecting the CIA and multiple government agencies. The attack targeted the Acquisition Research Center website, which serves as a crucial platform for submitting details of sensitive contracts supporting various CIA spying programs. Scope and Impact…
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The CISO’s challenge: Getting colleagues to understand what you do
Tags: access, authentication, ceo, cio, ciso, cybersecurity, Hardware, jobs, office, risk, saas, technology‘Chief’ in name only adds to the confusion: Like other executive-sounding titles, such as chief marketing officer, chief revenue officer, chief technology officer, and others, CISOs sound like they should be officers of the company with broad decision-making capabilities, but in most cases, they lack any actual power.”There are some CISOs that sort of rise…
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U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang.The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka Sobaeksu United Corporation), and Kim Se Un,…
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US sanctions North Korean firm, nationals behind IT worker schemes
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three North Korean nationals and a company for supporting fraudulent IT worker schemes that generated illicit revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-north-korean-firm-nationals-behind-it-worker-schemes/
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Bulletproof Host Aeza Group Moves Infrastructure to New Autonomous System
Threat analysts at Silent Push announced the discovery of a major infrastructure shift by the bulletproof hosting provider Aeza Group, which was designated and sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on July 1 for facilitating global cybercrime. According to Silent Push’s IOFA (Indicators of Future Attack) feed,…
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UK Signals It Will Back Peddle on Apple Encryption Demand
Apple, US Took Hard Line Against British Demand. The U.K. government is reportedly set to reverse course on requiring smartphone giant Apple to give police access to device data stored as backups in the California company’s cloud service. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down, a British official said. First seen…
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French Authorities confirm XSS.is admin arrested in Ukraine
French authorities announced the arrest in Ukraine of an alleged administrator of the long-running cybercrime forum XSS.is. A joint investigation conducted by French police, Ukrainian authorities, and Europol led to the arrest of the suspected administrator of the major Russian-speaking cybercrime forum xss.is. >>The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday, July 23, that an individual…