A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster

The UK-based automaker has been forced to stop vehicle production as a result of the attack—costing JLR tens of millions of dollars and forcing its parts suppliers to lay off workers...

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort ...

Kaspersky Exits U.S. Market Following Commerce Department Ban

Russian security vendor Kaspersky has said it's exiting the U.S. market nearly a month after the Commerce Department announced a ban on the sale of its software in the country citing a national security risk. News of the closure was first reported by journalist Kim Zetter. The company is expected...

Is it bad to have a major security incident on your résumé? (Seriously I don’t know)

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Its Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means its time to hug your nearest defender -- theyre probably tired, could be facing burnout or just have had too much coffee today. What makes the cybersecurity landscape even more fraught...

Now’s not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting disinformation online

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. In the wake of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, it seemed like big tech companies were taking the fight against disinformation seriously. Social media outlets set up new fact-checking procedures and got more aggressive about...

Hacking the Layoff Process

My latest book, A Hackers Mind, is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by the less powerful. Heres one I just found. An article on how layoffs at big companies work inadvertently suggests an employee hack to avoid being...

Anonymous hackers threatened Zynga For Mistreating Employees

Hacking Group Anonymous has threatened to target Zynga, according to a post on the group's official news channel and a since-deleted YouTube video but it was removed because it was considered a "violation of YouTube's policy on depiction of harmful activities" which suggests that the social game...