A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of ‘Black Kingdom’ ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. The suspect, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is accused of deploying the Black Kingdom malware on roughly 1,500 computers in the United States and abroad, … Read more
Pembee, the online booking system, has introduced a new feature enabling direct payments through the UK Government’s Tax-Free Childcare scheme, making it simpler for parents to book childcare and activity sessions. This new functionality lets parents with a Tax-Free Childcare account pay instantly at checkout. By connecting securely with HMRC’s system, the process is streamlined … Read more
This morning, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was considering listing the cost of tariffs as a separate line item on its site, citing “a person familiar with the plan.” Amazon later acknowledged that there had been internal discussions to that effect but only for its import-focused Amazon Haul sub-store and that the company didn’t plan … Read more
Landmark Admin has issued an update to its investigation of a cyberattack it suffered in May 2024, increasing the number of impacted individuals to 1.6 million. Landmark is a Texas-based third-party administrator (TPA) handling policy accounting, regulatory reporting, reinsurance support, and IT systems for major insurers nationwide like Liberty Bankers Life and American Benefit Life. … Read more
Fortinet has released security patches for a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. The company says Daniel Rozeboom of the FortiSwitch web UI development team discovered the vulnerability (CVE-2024-48887) internally. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this unverified FortiSwitch GUI password change security flaw (rated with a 9.8/10 … Read more
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage that is blocking admins worldwide from accessing the Exchange Admin Center (EAC). The company tagged this ongoing issue as a critical service issue tracked under EX1051697 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, and it says that “at this time appears to be a global issue.” Since the outage started … Read more
source: @joni_askola on X The Trump administration’s foreign policy team’s Houthi Signal group chat was leaked after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added. The leak vindicates the point I made in my last article that the Trump administration is anti-European. For instance, JD Vance wrote, “I think we are making a mistake,” arguing … Read more
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to “ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea,” the Trump administration said Tuesday, claiming a limited advance in efforts to broker a peace deal between the two countries. The agreements were announced in separate statements … Read more
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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is discussing plans to eliminate an entire team responsible for publishing and maintaining critical atomic measurement data in the coming weeks, as the Trump administration continues its efforts to reduce the US federal workforce, according to a March 18 email sent to dozens of outside scientists. … Read more