August 2023

Vulnerabilities on external attack surfaces live far too long 17/08/2023 at 15:17 By Every company has two attack surfaces: internal and external. Of the two, the external attack surface (EAS) is much harder to safeguard. Why? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google opens up Chrome 117 Developer Tools box, drops in a few spanners 17/08/2023 at 14:32 By Thomas Claburn Web devs, rejoice: Finally something is happening in the quiet and steady world of JavaScript For Chrome 117, Google has expanded the browser’s Developer Tools, aka DevTools, with 16 new features – the largest capability jump

Why You Need Continuous Network Monitoring? 17/08/2023 at 14:32 By Changes in the way we work have had significant implications for cybersecurity, not least in network monitoring. Workers no longer sit safely side-by-side on a corporate network, dev teams constantly spin up and tear down systems, exposing services to the internet. Keeping track of these

Former DEC employees to rally against stagnant pensions post-HP 17/08/2023 at 13:46 By Paul Kunert What do we want? Discretionary increases. When do we want them? Since 2002 Retired Digital Equipment Corporation employees are scheduling a protest day outside of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s UK headquarters over its refusal to increase their pensions – something the

Russian Hackers Use Zulip Chat App for Covert C&C in Diplomatic Phishing Attacks 17/08/2023 at 12:50 By An ongoing campaign targeting ministries of foreign affairs of NATO-aligned countries points to the involvement of Russian threat actors. The phishing attacks feature PDF documents with diplomatic lures, some of which are disguised as coming from Germany, to

Rising labor and component costs lead to UK product and service price hike at IBM 17/08/2023 at 12:33 By Paul Kunert Big Blue looks back at 2022 in Britain, one of the world’s economies worst ‘hit hardest’ by pandemic Products and services price hikes were initiated by IBM UK in 2022 to offset rising labor

Brit ISP’s ads ‘misleadingly implied’ existence of 6G, says watchdog 17/08/2023 at 11:35 By Jude Karabus UK biz says folks know the difference between fixed and mobile broadband. Do they, though, asks ASA? Despite “diagrams” and in-depth descriptions of exactly how its “full fibre directly to your home” fixed line product works, UK ISP 6G

Cisco close to clearing the backlog of hardware orders a certain virus caused 17/08/2023 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Subscriptions and software surge – just the way boss Chuck Robbins planned Cisco has almost cleared the massive backlog of orders it racked up after COVID-19 kicked holes in its supply chain.… This article is an

Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach 17/08/2023 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice? Google is reportedly developing generative AI tools to power chatbots capable of performing 21 different tasks – including

CISA Adds Citrix ShareFile Flaw to KEV Catalog Due to In-the-Wild Attacks 17/08/2023 at 08:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security flaw in Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-24489 (CVSS score: 9.8), the

Japan’s digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks 17/08/2023 at 08:02 By Laura Dobberstein The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Japan’s digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country’s digital ID, My Number Card,

9 Steps to Protect Against the Next MOVEit/MFT Attack 17/08/2023 at 07:17 By By now, the facts of the recent MOVEit breach are well known (although the victim total keeps climbing), but it never hurts to be reminded that these attacks do not take place in a vacuum and threat actors are more than happy