April 2024

Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry 2024-04-09 at 17:49 By Lindsay Clark Documents from leaders including former CEO Paula Vennells among those handed over at the last minute The Post Office Horizon inquiry may be forced to recall witnesses after the company delayed disclosing evidence – some relating

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10-Year-Old ‘RUBYCARP’ Romanian Hacker Group Surfaces with Botnet 2024-04-09 at 17:48 By A threat group of suspected Romanian origin called RUBYCARP has been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and phishing attacks. The group, believed to be active for at least 10 years, employs the botnet for financial gain, Sysdig

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Hackers Targeting Human Rights Activists in Morocco and Western Sahara 2024-04-09 at 17:48 By Human rights activists in Morocco and the Western Sahara region are the targets of a new threat actor that leverages phishing attacks to trick victims into installing bogus Android apps and serve credential harvesting pages for Windows users. Cisco Talos is tracking the

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Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices 2024-04-09 at 17:05 By Dan Robinson Plus: Qualy punts a ‘micro-power’ Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Qualcomm and Qt Group are looking to make it easier to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded systems using Qt’s cross-platform development tools, while Qualcomm has

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Researchers Discover LG Smart TV Vulnerabilities Allowing Root Access 2024-04-09 at 16:46 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LG webOS running on its smart televisions that could be exploited to bypass authorization and gain root access on the devices. The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws

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Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization 2024-04-09 at 16:18 By Richard Speed CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon Grafana Labs showed off new releases of its eponymous visualization platform, an updated version of Loki, and introduced its distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector, Alloy, at its

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UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats 2024-04-09 at 15:47 By Connor Jones Many decide to make no changes after detecting a breach UK businesses’ response to security breaches has “astounded” experts following the release of the government’s official cybercrime stats for 2024.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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