Browsing: cyber security
CyDeploy wants to create a copy of a company’s system to help it test updates before pushing them — see it at Disrupt 2025
By techtost.com
For any company that uses software, there is often a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyber-attacks, while ensuring that updates…
The US government has accused a former executive of defense contractor L3Harris of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a buyer in Russia, according to…
Amazon traces the problem that broke much of the Internet, says AWS is back to normal
By techtost.com
An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), taking down huge areas of the web, including websites, banks and some government services.…
Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple has detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your…
Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers gained ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data
By techtost.com
Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks says government-backed hackers had “long-term, persistent access” to its network, which allowed them to steal the company’s source code and customer information.…
How victims of the PowerSchool data breach helped each other investigate the ‘massive’ hack
By techtost.com
On January 7, at 11:10 p.m. in Dubai, Romy Backus received an email from education technology giant PowerSchool notifying her that the school she works at…
US prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of an active-duty US Army soldier in December to a massive theft of US phone records from AT&T and…
The malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from the compromised engineer’s computer
By techtost.com
A cyber attack and data breach at US tech giant PowerSchool discovered on December 28 threatens to expose the personal data of tens of millions of…
US government prepares to launch Cyber Trust Mark program for internet-connected devices in 2025
By techtost.com
The U.S. government announced Tuesday that its long-awaited cybersecurity labeling program for consumer Internet-connected devices will begin in 2025. The Biden administration first introduced the US…
Treasury Department sanctions hacking group Salt Typhoon behind breaches of major US telecommunications companies
By techtost.com
The US government has announced sanctions against a Chinese organization linked to Salt Typhoon, the hacking group responsible for the largest telecommunications hack in US history.…