December 2023

Hackers Exploiting Old MS Excel Vulnerability to Spread Agent Tesla Malware 21/12/2023 at 11:00 By Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to distribute a strain of malware called Agent Tesla. The infection chains leverage decoy Excel documents attached in invoice-themed messages to trick potential targets into opening them and […]

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Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations 21/12/2023 at 09:34 By Simon Sharwood Very Large Online Platforms status means NSFW sites must clean up their acts The European Commission has designated three websites that host sexually explicit material as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) under the Digital Services Act –

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Security’s Top 5 – November 2023 21/12/2023 at 08:12 By In this edition of Security’s Top 5 from Security magazine, we showcase the top stories and new developments from across the security industry throughout November. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Data loss prevention isn’t rocket science, but NASA hasn’t made it work in Microsoft 365 21/12/2023 at 07:53 By Simon Sharwood Privacy review finds breach response plan is a mess, training could be better, but protection regime mostly holds up NASA’s Office of Inspector General has run its eye over the aerospace agency’s privacy regime

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Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – Update ASAP 21/12/2023 at 07:30 By Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow

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Japan to allow limited rideshare services starting April 2024 21/12/2023 at 05:35 By Simon Sharwood Like Uber, but with drivers overseen by cab companies … for now Japan will open its transport market to rideshare companies for the first time in 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch ‘orbital datacenter’ 21/12/2023 at 03:49 By Tobias Mann Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power Axiom Space says it plans to build and launch an orbital datacenter to support

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Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions 21/12/2023 at 02:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Why keeping your PC secure and free of malware remains paramount IBM Security has dissected some JavaScript code that was injected into people’s online banking pages to steal their login credentials, saying 50,000 user sessions with more than

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Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials 21/12/2023 at 00:32 By Connor Jones Research highlights how major attacks like those exploiting Booking.com are executed Cybercriminals are preying on the inherent helpfulness of hotel staff during the sector’s busy holiday season.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling fake plastic implants 20/12/2023 at 23:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Sure, bogus blood tests are bad, but have you considered tricking doctors into embedded useless tubes? The CEO of a now-bankrupt medical technology supplier has been charged for a second time with crimes connected to the development of

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Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady 20/12/2023 at 22:34 By Richard Speed Printer names messed up? Debug It Yourself Microsoft has issued a fix for the mysterious HP Smart app issue and Windows subsequently renaming printers, and it’s anything but simple.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition 20/12/2023 at 21:49 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for the next five years. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Still up for grabs, it seems: One Concorde engine seeks new home 20/12/2023 at 21:35 By Richard Speed That’ll make a lot of expensive ashtrays Good news, everyone! Earlier this week, it looked as though your opportunity to snap up a piece of aviation history in the form of a Concorde engine might have gone.

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Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset 20/12/2023 at 20:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo LAION-5B contains 1,008 verifiable instances of illegal pictures of children, likely lots more, say researchers A massive public dataset that served as training data for popular AI image generators including Stable Diffusion has been found to contain thousands of

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