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Nearly two years after a cyberattack disrupted Transport for London’s (TfL) online services and exposed customer data, two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced to prison. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, each received a prison sentence of five years and six months at
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“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by Mozilla discovered, some users might find that claim to be a stretch. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period-tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health
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U.K police said on Thursday that the jailing of two teenage hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport of London (TfL), the government body overseeing the
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I’m here today to write about one particularly thorny area of operational technology (OT) and security that I run into somewhat routinely. Given my own particular interests as an incorrigible vulnerability-gazer, and my professional role as vice president of security research at runZero, I deal with OT security issues
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* TriWest Healthcare confirmed an April 16 breach in which an attacker accessed and downloaded sensitive data tied to 12,000 TRICARE beneficiaries * Stolen information includes names, DoD Benefits numbers, ZIP codes, authorization request types, and in some cases SSNs, addresses, and dates of birth * TriWest says it acted immediately to
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* Zoom patches critical improper input validation flaw in multiple Windows clients and SDKs that allowed remote account takeover * Additional high‑severity bugs fixed include CVE‑2026‑53410 (TOCTOU race condition), CVE‑2026‑53409 (privilege management flaw), and CVE‑2026‑53411 (input validation issue) * All vulnerabilities were found internally, with no
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Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software. You probably know it best for Proton Mail, which is encrypted by
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Artificial intelligence is moving faster than most enterprise governance models were designed to support. Organizations are rapidly embedding AI into customer operations, internal workflows, decision-making systems, software development, supply chains, analytics, and automation initiatives. But while adoption accelerates quickly, this creates a situation where accountability is fragmented. That gap is
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Two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced to jail in the United Kingdom, the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Thursday. Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, were charged over their role in a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL), which caused
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Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today released India-specific findings from its seventh annual State of Ransomware report, a vendor-agnostic survey of IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries identifying the impact of ransomware on businesses and how prepared organizations are to defend against them. The India data shows identity is
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OS PLATFORMS One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer A hard core of Windows 10 devices cannot or will not be migrated to Windows 11, leaving enterprises with a growing security problem as support options run out. According to asset
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The two British Scattered Spider members collared for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) will each spend five and a half years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment
