February 2024

Japan’s Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026 2024-02-16 at 21:01 By Dan Robinson Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work Japan’s Rakuten Mobile says it plans to offer a satellite-based mobile service that will support standard smartphones starting from 2026, although the satellites to provide this capability have yet […]

Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords 2024-02-16 at 19:47 By Liam Proven Project hails from its original motherland of Russia Russian developer Maxim Dounin has announced a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy, aimed at avoiding the corporate control of owner F5.… This article is an excerpt

Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer 2024-02-16 at 18:50 By Connor Jones Nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List after getting banks to empty vics’ accounts A Ukrainian cybercrime kingpin who ran some of the most pervasive malware operations faces 40 years in prison after spending nearly a decade

CISA Warning: Akira Ransomware Exploiting Cisco ASA/FTD Vulnerability 2024-02-16 at 18:50 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it’s being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks.

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped 2024-02-16 at 17:46 By Katyanna Quach 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won’t blow it all at once NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu – the largest quantity ever retrieved by such a mission.… This article is

IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch 2024-02-16 at 16:47 By Dan Robinson Who knows where they’ll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though Quantum technology outfit IonQ has cut the ribbon on its Seattle manufacturing facility, claimed as the first factory for quantum systems on US soil. The move comes

RustDoor macOS Backdoor Targets Cryptocurrency Firms with Fake Job Offers 2024-02-16 at 16:46 By Several companies operating in the cryptocurrency sector are the target of a newly discovered Apple macOS backdoor codenamed RustDoor. RustDoor was first documented by Bitdefender last week, describing it as a Rust-based malware capable of harvesting and uploading files, as well as gathering

Cambridge brainiacs propose AI apocalypse kill switches 2024-02-16 at 15:49 By Tobias Mann Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too In our quest to limit the destructive potential of artificial intelligence, a new paper out of the University of Cambridge has suggested baking in remote kill switches and lockouts, like those

Use reliable intel to make informed decisions in a crisis 2024-02-16 at 15:02 By With geopolitical threats on the rise, organizations are finding the impact misinformation has had on making critical decisions in a time of crisis. I This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner 2024-02-16 at 14:32 By Liam Proven The lessons of yesteryear’s OS are getting lost in translation FOSDEM 2024  There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they’re being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort.…

Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social 2024-02-16 at 14:02 By Connor Jones Expert weighs in after Brianna Ghey murder amid worrying rates of child cybercrime The murder of 16-year-old schoolgirl Brianna Ghey has kickstarted a debate around limiting children’s access to the dark web in the

Why We Must Democratize Cybersecurity 2024-02-16 at 13:46 By With breaches making the headlines on an almost weekly basis, the cybersecurity challenges we face are becoming visible not only to large enterprises, who have built security capabilities over the years, but also to small to medium businesses and the broader public. While this is creating