February 2024

Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking 2024-02-29 at 15:46 By Paul Kunert One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator The long-running Atos saga took another twist today after it announced the nomination to its board of One Point CEO David Layani, who previously made an

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Meta’s pay-or-consent model hides ‘massive illegal data processing ops’: lawsuit 2024-02-29 at 15:16 By Jude Karabus GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent’s ‘commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal’ Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a “fake choice”

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Hold up world, HP’s all-in-one print subscription’s about to land, and don’t forget AI PCs 2024-02-29 at 14:32 By Paul Kunert Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan HP Ink recorded its seventh quarter of shrinking revenues as enterprise customers voted to sweat their assets for longer amid economic

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GTPDOOR Linux Malware Targets Telecoms, Exploiting GPRS Roaming Networks 2024-02-29 at 14:16 By Threat hunters have discovered a new Linux malware called GTPDOOR that’s designed to be deployed in telecom networks that are adjacent to GPRS roaming exchanges (GRX) The malware is novel in the fact that it leverages the GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) for command-and-control (C2) communications. GPRS

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How to Prioritize Cybersecurity Spending: A Risk-Based Strategy for the Highest ROI 2024-02-29 at 14:16 By As an IT leader, staying on top of the latest cybersecurity developments is essential to keeping your organization safe. But with threats coming from all around — and hackers dreaming up new exploits every day — how do you

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Lazarus Hackers Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw as Zero-Day in Recent Attacks 2024-02-29 at 14:16 By The notorious Lazarus Group actors exploited a recently patched privilege escalation flaw in the Windows Kernel as a zero-day to obtain kernel-level access and disable security software on compromised hosts. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-21338 (CVSS score: 7.8), which can permit

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Hands up if you want to volunteer for redundancy, IBM tells staff 2024-02-29 at 13:47 By Paul Kunert Global ‘Resource Actions’ to hit Europe hard, with Enterprise Ops & Support, CIO, HR and Real Estate in firing line Exclusive  IBM is asking staff who want voluntary redundancy to raise their hand as it embarks on

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Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0 2024-02-29 at 12:36 By Liam Proven Following in the same direction as the good ship KDE Plasma The next major release of the LXQt desktop should arrive in April. Like the imminent KDE Plasma 6.0, it will use version 6 of the Qt

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Oracle Cerner system implementation risks future patient deaths, coroner warns 2024-02-29 at 11:48 By Lindsay Clark Doctors voiced concern over lack of Red-Amber-Green rating system, says report A coroner’s report into a death at a hospital in northern England has said patients are at risk unless concerns about the implementation of a new Oracle Cerner

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Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech 2024-02-29 at 10:48 By Thomas Claburn Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers A group of more than 30 European media organizations has sued Google for €2.1 billion, seeking damages for lost revenue they say was caused by the search

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New Backdoor Targeting European Officials Linked to Indian Diplomatic Events 2024-02-29 at 10:32 By A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed SPIKEDWINE has been observed targeting officials in European countries with Indian diplomatic missions using a new backdoor called WINELOADER. The adversary, according to a report from Zscaler ThreatLabz, used a PDF file in emails that purported to come from

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Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems 2024-02-29 at 10:32 By The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware. The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib, and swapmempool. They have been collectively downloaded 3,269 times,

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