May 2024

2024 Public Sector Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies 2024-05-14 at 16:03 By Trustwave SpiderLabs’ 2024 Public Sector Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies report details the security issues facing public sector security teams as they try to strike a balance between supplying needed services and deploying the cybersecurity necessary to

Cops developing Ghostbusters-esque weapon to take out e-bike thugs 2024-05-14 at 15:46 By Richard Currie ‘Who you gonna call?’ Dunno, my phone’s been stolen British police officers are setting their phasers to stun in response to an explosion in scooter and electric bike-based crime.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Critical Flaws in Cacti Framework Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code 2024-05-14 at 15:31 By The maintainers of the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework have addressed a dozen security flaws, including two critical issues that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The most severe of the vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-25641 (CVSS

How the Change Healthcare breach can prompt real cybersecurity change 2024-05-14 at 15:16 By After the number of health data leaks hit a new record last year, healthcare providers should be leveraging all the tools available to protect themselves and their patients from malicious criminals.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s

Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake 2024-05-14 at 15:02 By Laura Dobberstein SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba’s biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call.… This article is an excerpt from The

6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication 2024-05-14 at 14:16 By Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication

Ongoing Campaign Bombarded Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls 2024-05-14 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation. “The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user’s email with junk and calling the

Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t had any visitors for 15 years 2024-05-14 at 14:02 By Richard Speed STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

The UK reveals it’s spending millions on quantum navigation 2024-05-14 at 13:31 By Richard Speed First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that be backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.… This article is an