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Planes dropping out of the sky. Your mobile rendered useless, just like your car. As a Netflix film portrays a nightmare that security experts insist is a very real prospect… How will YOU survive on the day an enemy state switches off the internet?




An oil tanker ploughs into a tourist beach. Planes fall from the sky. Driverless cars run amok. The internet fails and the mobile network dies. Feral instincts take over as people fight for food, water and medicine amid the ruins of civilisation.

That is the nightmare vision depicted in Leave The World Behind, Netflix‘s recent hit film starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke as a couple battling societal breakdown when the technology that underpins civilisation collapses.

It’s fictional, but it touches on deep-seated, real-life fears.

The film is produced by Michelle and Barack Obama‘s company, Higher Ground. The ex-president was closely involved in shaping the plot, which dramatises many of the cyber-security issues on which he was briefed during his eight years in the White House.

For our 21st-century lives are almost entirely dependent on complex technologies that many do not understand — and that can so easily be exploited by our enemies.

Maintaining a car, for example, was previously a job for any competent motorist and their local mechanic. Now our vehicles are computers on wheels, their inner workings a mystery.

A scene from Leave The World Behind. The film is produced by Michelle and Barack Obama’s company, Higher Ground
A nightmare vision of the future is depicted in Leave The World Behind, Netflix’s recent hit film starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke as a couple battling societal breakdown when the technology that underpins civilisation collapses

We used to navigate with paper maps and landmarks. But with his car’s satnav out of action, Ethan Hawke’s character Clay Sandford is unable even to find his way to the nearby town.

Our telephone system used to run on sturdy copper wires, with handsets you could fix with a screwdriver. Now it is a branch of cyberspace.

So, too, is finance. Remember when a credit card’s embossed number left an imprint on a paper slip? Not any more. Our payment system depends wholly on electronic encryption.

What use is cash in the modern world? In the film, with the internet gone, it becomes a prized asset.

If the technologies we rely on break down, many of us will be as helpless as Hawke’s Clay Sandford. ‘I am a useless man,’…

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185,000 Individuals Impacted by MOVEit Hack at Car Parts Giant AutoZone 


Car parts giant AutoZone, which has over 7,000 stores across the Americas, is informing nearly 185,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised as a result of the massive MOVEit hacking campaign.

AutoZone revealed that cybercriminals have stolen information, including social security numbers, after exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer application. However, the company is not aware of instances where the exposed information has been used for fraud.

Nevertheless, impacted customers are being offered free credit monitoring and identity protection services. 

In response to the breach, the MOVEit application was temporarily disabled by AutoZone, the vulnerability was patched, and the affected system was rebuilt.

AutoZone pointed out that it is one of the more than two thousand organizations impacted by the MOVEit hack. However, the company determined that the exploitation of the MOVEit vulnerability resulted in data exfiltration only on August 15, more than two months after news of widespread exploitation broke.

Starting in late May and possibly earlier, the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a MOVEit software vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-34362 to steal data from many organizations that had been using the application to transfer files. 

According to cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, the number of impacted organizations — both directly and indirectly — reached 2,620 as of November 21, with more than 77 million individuals being affected.

The list of victims includes hundreds of US schools, the state of Maine, the US Department of Energy, and energy giants Siemens Energy, Schneider Electric, and Shell

Related: SEC Investigating Progress Software Over MOVEit Hack

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Scunthorpe car park getting £250,000 for security and pay machines upgrade


A car park in the heart of Scunthorpe is getting £250,000 investment to improve its security and make it easier to pay to park.

The Parishes multi-storey car park is located off Lindum Street, close to the town’s bus station. Scunthorpe’s new £19.4m Community Diagnostics Centre is being built on part of the ground floor outdoor parking.

The £250,000 is made up of cash from the council, the Police and Crime Commissioner and the government’s Levelling Up Fund. The investment aims to improve safety at The Parishes car park, bringing peace of mind to shoppers and cinema-goers.

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“This security upgrade to one of our busiest car parks is brilliant for Scunthorpe and will be welcome news for motorists,” said Cllr John Davison, cabinet member for safer, stronger communities (urban). “Millions of pounds is being invested to create a new future for Scunthorpe town centre. We are already seeing hundreds of families enjoying the fun-packed events programme at the Queen Elizabeth Gardens, rediscovering everything the town has to offer in the process.

“At the same time, it is important we continue to invest in Scunthorpe’s facilities. The Parishes car park is the first stop for many visitors and we want to ensure it is a welcoming environment. That’s why this investment is so important.”

The cash will pay for the installation of new security barriers, cameras, and door readers. Entry and exit will be controlled by inputting vehicle registration and number plate recognition. New touch screen payment machines will be fitted too. This will enable visitors to pay by coins, cash, cards, or Apple and Android Pay.

North Lincolnshire Council continues to offer all-day free parking on Saturdays and Sundays in more than 2,000 spaces available in its Scunthorpe car parks. “It is important to keep our public assets safe for everyone to use,” said Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Evison. “The Parishes car park in Scunthorpe has been subjected to incidents of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage so this improvement to the security of the site will be of great benefit.

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Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare


Eighty-four percent of the brands that researchers studied share or sell this kind of personal data, and only two of them allow drivers to have their data deleted. While it is unclear exactly who these companies share or sell data to, the report points out that there is a huge market for driver data. An automotive data broker called High Mobility cited in the report has a partnership with nine of the car brands Mozilla studied. On its website, it advertises a wide range of data products—including precise location data.

This isn’t just a privacy nightmare but a security one. Volkswagen, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz have all recently suffered data leaks or breaches that affected millions of customers. According to Mozilla, cars are the worst category of products for privacy that they have ever reviewed.

Apple has just released a security update to iOS after researchers at Citizen Lab discovered a zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver Pegasus spyware. Citizen Lab, which is part of the University of Toronto, is calling the newly discovered exploit chain Blastpass. Researchers say it is capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without the target even touching their device. According to researchers, Blastpass is delivered to a victim’s phone through an iMessage with an Apple Wallet attachment containing a malicious image.

The Pegasus spyware, developed by NSO Group, enables an attacker to read a target’s text messages, view their photos, and listen to calls. It has been used to track journalists, political dissidents, and human rights activists around the world.

Apple says customers should update their phones to the newly released iOS 16.6.1. The exploit can also attack certain models of iPads. You can see details of the affected models here. Citizen Lab urges at-risk users to enable Lockdown Mode.

North Korea-backed hackers are targeting cybersecurity researchers in a new campaign that is exploiting at least one zero-day vulnerability, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warned in a report released Thursday. The group did not provide details about the vulnerability since it is currently unpatched. However, the company says it is part of a…

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