September 2023

Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure 15/09/2023 at 15:16 By Richard Currie Backlash has spilled offline and into potential violence The backlash against Unity runtime fees has been so extreme that the game engine company felt the need to cancel a town hall meeting and close two

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The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By The volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is rising, with close to 30% more vulnerabilities found in 2022 vs. 2018. Costs are also rising, with a data breach in 2023 costing $4.45M on average vs. $3.62M in 2017. In Q2 2023, a total of 1386 victims were

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Google Agrees to $93 Million Settlement in California’s Location-Privacy Lawsuit 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations that the company’s location-privacy practices misled consumers and violated consumer protection laws. “Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users

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DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert 15/09/2023 at 14:53 By The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT

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BT dips toe into liquid cooling in quest for a chill network 15/09/2023 at 14:24 By Dan Robinson 40-50% reduction in power needs isn’t an efficiency to be sniffed at BT is to trial liquid cooling solutions in a bid to improve energy consumption and efficiency across its networks and IT infrastructure.… This article is

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NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims’ credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities.  “The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North

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DDoS 2.0: IoT Sparks New DDoS Alert 15/09/2023 at 13:46 By The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT

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Greater Manchester Police ransomware attack another classic demo of supply chain challenges 15/09/2023 at 12:49 By Richard Speed Are you the weakest link? The UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked.… This article is

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Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads 15/09/2023 at 12:48 By The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. “This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making

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There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here’s what to consider 15/09/2023 at 11:33 By Lindsay Clark Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Feature  It has been a decade since Amazon RDS launched support for PostgreSQL. Since then, the relational

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