March 2024

UK council won’t say whether two-week ‘cyber incident’ impacted resident data 2024-03-21 at 13:46 By Connor Jones Security experts insist ransomware is involved but Leicester zips its lips Leicester City Council continues to battle a suspected ransomware attack while keeping schtum about the key details.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

How to Accelerate Vendor Risk Assessments in the Age of SaaS Sprawl 2024-03-21 at 13:46 By In today’s digital-first business environment dominated by SaaS applications, organizations increasingly depend on third-party vendors for essential cloud services and software solutions. As more vendors and services are added to the mix, the complexity and potential vulnerabilities within the SaaS

GitHub Launches AI-Powered Autofix Tool to Assist Devs in Patching Security Flaws 2024-03-21 at 13:46 By GitHub on Wednesday announced that it’s making available a feature called code scanning autofix in public beta for all Advanced Security customers to provide targeted recommendations in an effort to avoid introducing new security issues. “Powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, code scanning autofix

Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform 2024-03-21 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson Boosted on-device generative AI’s not just for the flagship smartphone kids Qualcomm is pushing out its second smartphone platform within a week, in this case an extension of its Snapdragon 7 series for high-end devices that are built to

Nominet set to restructure, cut jobs after losing ‘major contract’ 2024-03-21 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Prices also set to rise after being frozen since 2020 Nominet is cutting staff on the back of market pressure, including the loss of a government cyber contract and is considering a domain registration price increase, according to an

Making Sense of Operational Technology Attacks: The Past, Present, and Future 2024-03-21 at 11:31 By When you read reports about cyber-attacks affecting operational technology (OT), it’s easy to get caught up in the hype and assume every single one is sophisticated. But are OT environments all over the world really besieged by a constant barrage

U.S. Sanctions Russians Behind ‘Doppelganger’ Cyber Influence Campaign 2024-03-21 at 11:01 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced sanctions against two 46-year-old Russian nationals and the respective companies they own for engaging in cyber influence operations. Ilya Andreevich Gambashidze (Gambashidze), the founder of the Moscow-based company Social Design

Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news 2024-03-21 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what The French Competition Authority (FCA) on Wednesday fined Google €250 million ($272 million, £214 million) for breaking its promise

Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom 2024-03-21 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Claims members will be bankrupted by new VMware licensing regime, and vital services disrupted Lobby group CISPE – a collective representing Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe – has called for regulators to investigate VMware by Broadcom’s software licensing arrangements, which it

Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime 2024-03-21 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Operators pack twenty phones into a chassis – then rack ’em and stack ’em ready to do evil Chinese upstarts are selling smartphone motherboards – and kit to run and manage them at scale – to