October 2023

It’s 2023 and Microsoft WordPad can be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems 11/10/2023 at 03:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Happy Halloween! Security bugs under attack squashed, more flaws fixed Patch Tuesday  Microsoft on Tuesday issued more than 100 security updates to fix flaws in its products, including two bugs that are already under active attack, […]

Judge tosses Sonos’s $32.5M patent win over Google with savage slam down 11/10/2023 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender’ A California judge has quashed one of Sonos’s legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release 11/10/2023 at 01:52 By Thomas Claburn It’s PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.… This article is an

SBF on trial: The FTX Python code that allegedly let his Alameda hedge fund spend people’s deposits 11/10/2023 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code

HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet 10/10/2023 at 23:48 By Connor Jones Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record, according to Cloudflare.… This article is an excerpt

54% of IT leaders believe advances AI systems pose incoming risks 10/10/2023 at 23:32 By IT leaders were surveyed on incoming security risks within the next one to three years, including generative AI, data privacy and third parties.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Threat actors exploit HTTP/2 vulnerability 10/10/2023 at 22:17 By In August of 2023, Cloudflare discovered a zero-day vulnerability developed by an unknown threat actor that exploits the standard HTTP/2 protocol. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Swedish tech biz aims to sail past traffic woes on electric hydrofoils 10/10/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo But P-12’s production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that