August 2023

Downloading the Webb Scope’s data starts with a 6-month scheduling scramble 16/08/2023 at 16:46 By Katyanna Quach Missions bid to secure comms time on Deep Space Network The remarkable images and data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are being sent to Earth after more than six months of jockeying to secure network resources, […]

Scott Sykes joins Asurity as Chief Information Security Officer 16/08/2023 at 16:45 By Scott Sykes has been hired as CISO at Asurity Technologies. Sykes was previously CISO at Netcracker Technology and Tata Communications. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

US task force to look into how military could use generative AI 16/08/2023 at 16:06 By Katyanna Quach ‘Hey our enemies are going to use this technology, so why shouldn’t we?’ The US Department of Defense has set up Task Force Lima, a new team to investigate what generative AI can do for the military,

Overcoming challenges in a changing security industry 16/08/2023 at 15:36 By The state of the physical security industry is changing. In this installment of 5 Minutes With, we talk to Steve Riley, Global Security Technology Lead at IBM Corporate Security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Delaware school district adopts proactive gun detection solution 16/08/2023 at 15:35 By With a goal of preventing gun violence, a Delaware school district has recently employed an AI-based gun detection system. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Beijing’s silent treatment topples Tower Semiconductor merger with Intel 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Dan Robinson Termination fee of $353 million wipes out Intel Foundry Services’ revenue for last quarter Intel’s planned $5.4 billion buy of Israeli chip biz Tower Semiconductor has fallen through after the vendor failed to get regulatory approval from China within the

What’s the State of Credential theft in 2023? 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By At a little overt halfway through 2023, credential theft is still a major thorn in the side of IT teams. The heart of the problem is the value of data to cybercriminals and the evolution of the techniques they use to get hold

Experts Uncover Weaknesses in PowerShell Gallery Enabling Supply Chain Attacks 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Active flaws in the PowerShell Gallery could be weaponized by threat actors to pull off supply chain attacks against the registry’s users. “These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify

Guide: How Google Workspace-based Organizations can leverage Chrome to improve Security 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By More and more organizations are choosing Google Workspace as their default employee toolset of choice. But despite the productivity advantages, this organizational action also incurs a new security debt. Security teams now have to find a way to adjust their

Google Introduces First Quantum Resilient FIDO2 Security Key 16/08/2023 at 15:16 By Google on Tuesday announced the first quantum resilient FIDO2 security key implementation as part of its OpenSK security keys initiative. “This open-source hardware optimized implementation uses a novel ECC/Dilithium hybrid signature schema that benefits from the security of ECC against standard attacks and

Critical Security Flaws Affect Ivanti Avalanche, Threatening 30,000 Organizations 16/08/2023 at 14:04 By Multiple critical security flaws have been reported in Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobile device management solution that’s used by 30,000 organizations. The vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CVE-2023-32560 (CVSS score: 9.8), are stack-based buffer overflows in Ivanti Avalanche WLAvanacheServer.exe v6.4.0.0. Cybersecurity company Tenable said the shortcomings are the

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is 16/08/2023 at 13:36 By Liam Proven A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS The next minor version of OpenZFS is nearly ready, and ZFSBootMenu makes it easy to boot Linux from it, via a clever workaround.… This article is an excerpt from