October 2023

AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage since 2010 02/10/2023 at 13:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool Interview  AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant’s security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese

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Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed 02/10/2023 at 13:17 By Dan Robinson Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds The datacenter industry is caught between conflicting demands: the pressure to deliver projects faster, while product and skills shortages lead to delays.… This article is an excerpt from

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Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years 02/10/2023 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark It’s about time! Set your watches! Scientists have set the clock ticking for the development of a new generation of timepieces with accuracy of up to 1 second in 300 billion years or about 22 times the age of

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OpenRefine’s Zip Slip Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code 02/10/2023 at 12:16 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the open-source OpenRefine data cleanup and transformation tool that could result in arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-37476 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability is a Zip Slip vulnerability that could have adverse

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Musk’s first year as Twitter’s Dear Leader is nigh 02/10/2023 at 11:32 By Rupert Goodwins How’s he done? tl;dr – not very well Opinion  Next month will see the first anniversary of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The rest of the media will be full of analyses on what’s gone right and wrong, and what

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BunnyLoader: New Malware-as-a-Service Threat Emerges in the Cybercrime Underground 02/10/2023 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity experts have discovered yet another malware-as-a-service (MaaS) threat called BunnyLoader that’s being advertised for sale on the cybercrime underground. “BunnyLoader provides various functionalities such as downloading and executing a second-stage payload, stealing browser credentials and system information, and much more,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers

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