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Security News Bites for June 27, 2025

Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets.  That is a lot of money for […]

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Industry Won’t Share Attack Info with Feds

Of the 99 calendar days between now and the end of the federal government’s year and the expiration of the cybersecurity information sharing law known as CISA 2015, the House will only meet on 27 of them and the Senate on 37 days. During that time, they have to fund the government, raise the debt […]

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Seeing is DEFINITELY Not believing

We used say seeing is believing. With AI that is definitely not the case. Hong Kong police reported that a finance worker for a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to crooks. He was tricked into participating in a Zoom call, supposedly with the company’s CFO, along with others. It turns out […]

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Security News Bites for June 20, 2025

Car Production in US Could Shut Down in Weeks Due to China Rare Earth Magnet Ban The president says he has worked this out with China – we will see how much of a squeeze China wants to put him in. Xi, as a master deal maker, could choose to squeeze the hell out of […]

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Security News Bites for June 13, 2025

TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days If you are responsible for a website, this applies to you. TLS certificates, the tech behind making HTTPS:// work on your website, has been changing over the years. A website owner used to be able to buy a certificate and it would be valid for 10 years. But […]

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