February 2024

Microsoft’s February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some users 2024-02-27 at 16:18 By Richard Speed Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You’re not alone Microsoft says that February 13’s security update for Windows 11 might “face installation issues.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

VEC and BEC attacks rise in the energy and infrastructure industry 2024-02-27 at 16:03 By New information shows that the energy and infrastructure industry is experiencing more cyberattacks utilizing social engineering tactics.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub 2024-02-27 at 16:03 By An “intricately designed” remote access trojan (RAT) called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it available to other actors at no extra cost. Written in C# and compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, the open-source RAT

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later… welcome to Google Cloud 2024-02-27 at 15:20 By Dan Robinson Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud – one that would have tested the nerves of the

Capita wins uncontested extension to mega millions Northern Ireland Education contract 2024-02-27 at 14:51 By Lindsay Clark Latest £33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that’s now worth well over half a billion Northern Ireland’s Education Authority has awarded UK tech outsourcer Capita a managed services contract extension worth £33 million ($41.8 million) without

ESA’s ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted 2024-02-27 at 13:54 By Richard Speed Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent The European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite has re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. While no damage to property was reported, some impressive shots were taken of the spacecraft starting

Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir 2024-02-27 at 13:17 By Liam Proven Try preliminary version of a new environment in a snap Version 0.1.0 of Miracle-wm is very incomplete still, yet shows that interesting stuff is happening on the back of Canonical’s Mir display server.… This article is an excerpt from

From Alert to Action: How to Speed Up Your SOC Investigations 2024-02-27 at 13:16 By Processing alerts quickly and efficiently is the cornerstone of a Security Operations Center (SOC) professional’s role. Threat intelligence platforms can significantly enhance their ability to do so. Let’s find out what these platforms are and how they can empower analysts.

Five Eyes Agencies Expose APT29’s Evolving Cloud Attack Tactics 2024-02-27 at 12:46 By Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard (formerly Nobelium), and

New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks 2024-02-27 at 12:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks. “It’s possible to send malicious pull requests with attacker-controlled data from

HPE boss Neri bags 15% pay hike in 2023 as targets ticked 2024-02-27 at 12:19 By Paul Kunert CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier HPE chief Antonio Neri was awarded $20.06 million in compensation for the company’s last financial year, according to a proxy statement filed with