January 2024

We all knew Nutanix would benefit from Broadcom nuking VMware’s channel – but perhaps not this much 2024-01-18 at 21:47 By Dan Robinson A lot of people can’t wait to get past their ESX addiction As the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization

JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day 2024-01-18 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon. That hasn’t stopped security breaches The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its

Future of America’s Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink 2024-01-18 at 20:46 By Connor Jones Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government’s cyber defense armory, experts are

Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon’s rocky runway 2024-01-18 at 20:02 By Richard Speed Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth’s atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing 2024-01-18 at 19:47 By Richard Currie They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals … Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more – because a gaggle

Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings 2024-01-18 at 19:17 By Connor Jones Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.… This article

New Docker Malware Steals CPU for Crypto & Drives Fake Website Traffic 2024-01-18 at 19:16 By Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part of a multi-pronged monetization strategy. “This is the first documented

Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam 2024-01-18 at 18:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building

Microsoft 365’s add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers 2024-01-18 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra Microsoft’s demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.… This article is

Russian COLDRIVER Hackers Expand Beyond Phishing with Custom Malware 2024-01-18 at 18:01 By The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust programming language. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the latest activity,

Two more Citrix NetScaler bugs exploited in the wild 2024-01-18 at 17:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Just when you thought you had recovered from Bleed Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler’s ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them, according to the vendor.… This article is an excerpt from

49% of organizations cite poor training as cause for privacy concerns 2024-01-18 at 17:16 By According to a recent data privacy report, 43% say their privacy budget is underfunded and 51% of respondents expect a decrease in budget. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix 2024-01-18 at 17:04 By Liam Proven Plus fresh release brings native Wayland support on Linux WINE 9.0 brings the benefits of better WoW64 support to 64-bit x86 – and Arm – kit, plus native Wayland support on Linux.… This article is an excerpt

Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way 2024-01-18 at 16:32 By Paul Kunert It won’t be anywhere near the 12,000 heads that rolled last year, though, says Pichai Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai is warning Googlers to brace themselves for more jobs cuts in 2024 though they won’t be as deep as last