May 2024

Oh Sonos! App update borks users’ favorite features and worse 2024-05-20 at 20:16 By Paul Kunert Blind customers complain they’ve been forgotten in rollout of latest UI Sonos has alienated chunks of its customer base after releasing a revamped app for its music boxes that strips users of often used features, including making it nearly […]

Iranian MOIS-Linked Hackers Behind Destructive Attacks on Albania and Israel 2024-05-20 at 19:31 By An Iranian threat actor affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been attributed as behind destructive wiping attacks targeting Albania and Israel under the personas Homeland Justice and Karma, respectively. Cybersecurity firm Check Point is tracking the activity

Can I phone a friend? How cops circumvent face recognition bans 2024-05-20 at 19:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Just ask a pal in a neighboring town with laxer restrictions Police in multiple major US cities have figured out a trick to circumvent their cities’ bans on facial recognition technology. Just ask a friend in a city

Top 5 things CISOs should know to protect their business 2024-05-20 at 19:16 By Security leaders should consider these five things that can help them protect the business. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Another week, another leak for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule 2024-05-20 at 18:46 By Richard Speed This bird isn’t going to space for a while Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule will spend a little longer on Earth than planned following the discovery of a leak in one of the spacecraft’s reaction control thrusters.… This article is an

AI might be coming for your job, but Sam Altman can’t go on dinner dates anymore 2024-05-20 at 18:01 By Richard Speed As OpenAI’s safety culture comes under scrutiny, CEO bemoans his lack of privacy Spare a thought for poor Sam Altman. Amid the ongoing drama that is OpenAI, with high-profile departures and regulators worrying

Researchers call out QNAP for dragging its heels on patch development 2024-05-20 at 17:16 By Connor Jones WatchTowr publishes report claiming vendor failed to issue fixes after four months Infosec boffins say they were forced to go public after QNAP failed to fix various vulnerabilities that were reported to it months ago.… This article is

DoJ, ByteDance ask court: Hurry up and rule on TikTok ban already 2024-05-20 at 16:46 By Laura Dobberstein Forced selloff case will likely be appealed again … see you in (Supreme) court The Department of Justice and Bytedance spent a rare moment unified on Friday when the duo asked for a fast-tracked court schedule for

Red Hat middleware takes a back seat in strategic shuffle 2024-05-20 at 16:16 By Liam Proven Less middleware plus more AI equals … fewer people? Exclusive  Red Hat is slowing or stopping development of some of its middleware software, a situation which could result in some staff layoffs.… This article is an excerpt from The

Important Security Defenses to Help Your CISO Sleep at Night 2024-05-20 at 16:16 By David Broggy This is Part 13 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. The full series can be found here. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Foxit PDF Reader Flaw Exploited by Hackers to Deliver Diverse Malware Arsenal 2024-05-20 at 16:01 By Multiple threat actors are weaponizing a design flaw in Foxit PDF Reader to deliver a variety of malware such as Agent Tesla, AsyncRAT, DCRat, NanoCore RAT, NjRAT, Pony, Remcos RAT, and XWorm. “This exploit triggers security warnings that could

Really? A sarcasm detector? Wow. You shouldn’t have 2024-05-20 at 15:31 By Richard Currie Computers learning to spot sass – what could go wrong? Researchers from the University of Groningen’s Speech Technology Lab say they have created a multimodal algorithm that can detect sarcasm in speech.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View