2023

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists 01/09/2023 at 23:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Can’t have you finding the ghosts in those E-meter machines, now can we? Right to repair advocates have made significant gains across the US of late, but the latest challenge to the movement faces a challenge from a surprising place: […]

White House announces security plans for assisted living facilities 01/09/2023 at 23:02 By The White House announced plans to set a federal floor for staffing levels, so that nursing home owners could not slash staffing to unsafe levels. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

More Okta customers trapped in Scattered Spider’s web 01/09/2023 at 22:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Oktapus phishing campaign criminals are back in action Customers of cloudy identification vendor Okta are reporting social engineering attacks targeting their IT service desks in attempts to compromise user accounts with administrator permissions.… This article is an excerpt from The

Seattle TSA emphasizes security ahead of Labor Day travel 01/09/2023 at 21:36 By The Transportation Security Administration at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are prepared for additional travel ahead of Labor Day weekend. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP’s cloud pitch trades control for convenience 01/09/2023 at 21:17 By Lindsay Clark Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they’re buying One of SAP’s preferred methods for migrating systems to the cloud risks IT departments losing control of operational running costs, Gartner has

Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train 01/09/2023 at 19:47 By Dan Robinson Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment Dell and Samsung are the latest beneficiaries of the current frenzy of speculation surrounding anything AI related, with both vendors seeing a rise in share prices related to

Onboarding crypto users in Africa vs. the West — Fonbnk founder Christian Duffus explains 01/09/2023 at 19:02 By Cointelegraph By Elisha Owusu Akyaw Christian Duffus, founder of Fonbnk, believes a lack of basic infrastructure such as telecommunications is slowing down cryptocurrency adoption in Africa. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft SQL Servers to Deploy FreeWorld Ransomware 01/09/2023 at 19:02 By Threat actors are exploiting poorly secured Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers to deliver Cobalt Strike and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld. Cybersecurity firm Securonix, which has dubbed the campaign DB#JAMMER, said it stands out for the way the toolset and infrastructure

What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation? 01/09/2023 at 18:18 By Thomas Claburn UK emergency services organizations urged to consider alternatives What3Words, the website and app that translates physical coordinates into short memorable combinations of words, has been praised and criticized over the years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Malware top consumer threat from May to July 2023 01/09/2023 at 18:17 By According to a cybersecurity trends report, malware was the top online consumer threat from May to July 2023, accounting for 58% of all detections. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but ‘design by committee’ isn’t always the best for Linux 01/09/2023 at 16:49 By Liam Proven Still, it’s blisteringly fast and systemd-free too The latest release of antiX is Linux how it used to be, in the good way. It’s not the friendliest, but it does everything – and, wow,