November 2023

6 Steps to Accelerate Cybersecurity Incident Response 23/11/2023 at 14:01 By Modern security tools continue to improve in their ability to defend organizations’ networks and endpoints against cybercriminals. But the bad actors still occasionally find a way in. Security teams must be able to stop threats and restore normal operations as quickly as possible. That’s

Mirai-based Botnet Exploiting Zero-Day Bugs in Routers and NVRs for Massive DDoS Attacks 23/11/2023 at 14:01 By An active malware campaign is leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. “The payload targets routers and network video recorder (NVR) devices

Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble 23/11/2023 at 13:47 By Dan Robinson Net-zero promises or zero-net progress? Greenpeace has savaged global electronics companies, claiming they are simply not doing enough with efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

The revival of Medley/Interlisp: An elegant weapon is getting sharpened up again 23/11/2023 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Restoration project headed up by Steve Kaisler is gathering steam ANTIQUE CODE SHOW  Xerox’s pioneering graphical Lisp workstation operating system is not only alive, well, and MIT-licensed, but running in the cloud as well as on modern

Mirai we go again: Zero-day flaws see routers and cameras co-opted into botnet 23/11/2023 at 11:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Akamai sounds the alarm – won’t name the vendors yet, but there is a fix coming Akamai has uncovered two zero-day bugs capable of remote code execution, both being exploited to distribute the Mirai malware

Long-term space missions might make liftoff harder for male astronauts 23/11/2023 at 10:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Study finds galactic cosmic radiation can damage below-the-belt tissues, and the problem may not go away Male astronauts who spend prolonged periods in space may suffer permanent erectile dysfunction, new research has found.… This article is an excerpt from

NTT adapts AI network analysis tool to detect faults in nuclear fusion reactors 23/11/2023 at 09:32 By Laura Dobberstein Here comes the Sun Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has taken an AI tool created to monitor telco networks and adapted it to predict anomalies in a nuclear fusion reactor to help keep its

North Korean Hackers Distribute Trojanized CyberLink Software in Supply Chain Attack 23/11/2023 at 09:16 By A North Korean state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Diamond Sleet is distributing a trojanized version of a legitimate application developed by a Taiwanese multimedia software developer called CyberLink to target downstream customers via a supply chain attack. “This malicious file is a