BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China A crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar has scammed 850,000 people out of tens of millions of dollars via a network of dodgy shopping websites.…

It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us Interview  As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of data, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet.…

And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too RSAC  There's a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software secure by design.…

Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people.…

China vehemently denies involvement UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.…

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career Interview  This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We're told it's a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations.…