The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Sergiu Gatlan has covered cybersecurity, technology, and other news beats for more than a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.

Casio discloses data breach impacting customers in 149 countries

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Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio disclosed a data breach impacting customers from 149 countries after hackers gained to the servers of its ClassPad education platform. 

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Twitter testing annual subscriptions for tweeting and retweeting

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Twitter, now renamed X, is testing new $1 annual subscriptions to provide unverified accounts access to core features like tweeting and retweeting. 

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Microsoft disables bad spam rule flagging all sent emails as junk

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Microsoft has disabled a bad anti-spam rule flooding Microsoft 365 admins' inboxes with blind carbon copies (BCC) of outbound emails mistakenly flagged as spam.

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DarkGate malware spreads through compromised Skype accounts

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Between July and September, DarkGate malware attacks have used compromised Skype accounts to infect targets through messages containing VBA loader script attachments. 

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Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Windows 11

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Microsoft announced earlier this week that the NTLM authentication protocol will be killed off in Windows 11 in the future. 

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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024