Caesars Entertainment, operator of the venerable Las Vegas casino Caesars Palace, has revealed that it paid a significant sum of money to its attackers following a recent ransomware attack, which was possibly the work of the same threat actor that breached competitor MGM Resorts using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware. In a filing made to the US…
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Identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta has warned its customers to be alert to a developing campaign of cyber attacks in which an unknown threat actor is using social engineering to hijack highly privileged roles in their Okta tenants. The supplier said that over the past couple of weeks, multiple US-based customers had reported…
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The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has been ruled responsible for his hacking spree at Southwark Crown Court. The 18-year old from Oxford, who was first named as Arion Kurtaj earlier is year, is autistic and was…
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The number of girls choosing to take GCSE computing has risen for the second year in a row after a few years of falling numbers. It comes as the number of overall students choosing to take the subject also showed a year-on-year (YoY) rise and has been on the rise for the past three years…
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The US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) is to conduce a review of cloud cyber security, focusing on what government bodies, industry and cloud service providers need to do better to strengthen identity management and authentication in the cloud. The probe comes in the wake of the July 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online incident, which will…
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Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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