February 2024

How Nation-State Actors Target Your Business: New Research Exposes Major SaaS Vulnerabilities 2024-02-15 at 13:31 By With many of the highly publicized 2023 cyber attacks revolving around one or more SaaS applications, SaaS has become a cause for genuine concern in many boardroom discussions. More so than ever, considering that GenAI applications are, in fact,

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UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal 2024-02-15 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely The UK’s Cabinet Office has paused its migration away from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, after ditching the current contract it signed with the Redmond headquartered biz last spring.… This article is an excerpt from

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Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks 2024-02-15 at 12:31 By A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that’s capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS. “The GoldPickaxe family is available for

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HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 2024-02-15 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink The Reg family would like to extend our condolences to HP CEO Enrique Lores after his headline financial compensation package for 2023 declined more than 7 percent year-on-year to

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Miscreants turn to ad tech to measure malware metrics 2024-02-15 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s what you call dual-use tech Cyber baddies have turned to ad networks to measure malware deployment and to avoid detection, according to HP Wolf Security.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal 2024-02-15 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision

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WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age 2024-02-15 at 08:32 By Richard Speed The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover NASA’s Perseverance is having trouble with one of its instruments – which could mean the rover will no longer be able to zap rocks

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WTF is ‘deployment phasing’? One reason Cisco revenue just went backwards, is what 2024-02-15 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood Splunk deal may close early, but AI is a way off turning into a money fountain. Meanwhile, Cisco waits for you to finish projects Cisco has delivered mixed news to investors after its customers yet again

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Critical Exchange Server Flaw (CVE-2024-21410) Under Active Exploitation 2024-02-15 at 07:32 By Microsoft on Wednesday acknowledged that a newly disclosed critical security flaw in Exchange Server has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after it released fixes for the vulnerability as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Tracked as CVE-2024-21410 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue has

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North Korea now running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service 2024-02-15 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless North Korea’s latest money-making venture is the production and sale of gambling websites that come pre-infected with malware, according to South Korea’s National

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In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board 2024-02-15 at 05:44 By Simon Sharwood Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec Social networking company Meta has appointed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to its board and added energy entrepreneur John Arnold too.…

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