June 2024

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What’s up with the Kaspersky US ban? 2024-06-22 at 11:31 By Iain Thomson It’s been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains Kettle  The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and […]

React to this headline:

U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban 2024-06-22 at 09:16 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The move “underscores

React to this headline:

Apple Intelligence won’t be available in Europe because Tim’s terrified of watchdogs 2024-06-22 at 02:20 By Thomas Claburn These privacy rules might harm privacy! No, really, that’s totally why we’re doing this Apple has delayed plans to deploy artificial intelligence features in Europe because the American giant is unhappy with the continent’s privacy regulations.… This

React to this headline:

Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew 2024-06-22 at 00:48 By Jessica Lyons ‘Substantial proportion’ of America to get a note from next month Change Healthcare is formally notifying some of its pharmacy and hospital customers that their patients’ data was stolen from it by ransomware criminals back

React to this headline:

Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky’s top bosses – but not Mr K himself 2024-06-21 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Here’s America’s list of the supposedly dirty dozen Uncle Sam took another swing at Kaspersky Lab today and sanctioned a dozen C-suite and senior-level executives at the antivirus maker, but spared CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky.… This

React to this headline:

Tesla sued for ‘systemic’ racism at its Fremont, California plant 2024-06-21 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Campus faces yet another racial discrimination lawsuit as Clean Air Act violations claims also hit the fan Yet another lawsuit was this week filed against Tesla citing a “systemically … racially hostile work environment” at the company’s Fremont, California

React to this headline:

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update 2024-06-21 at 21:46 By Liam Proven Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users’ tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of

React to this headline:

AT&T forbidden from cutting landline services to large parts of California 2024-06-21 at 20:47 By Matthew Connatser Telecoms company will remain a carrier of last resort per CPUC ruling AT&T will have to continue operating landlines in California despite its wish to cut off the less lucrative line of business, the California Public Utilities Commission

React to this headline:

Phoenix UEFI flaw puts long list of Intel chips in hot seat 2024-06-21 at 19:31 By Connor Jones Researchers discuss it in same breath as BlackLotus and MosaicRegressor A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware is threatening the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar fashion to BlackLotus and others like

React to this headline:

Closing the cloud skills gap as adoption grows 2024-06-21 at 19:16 By As cloud use continues to grow, training and scaling teams to protect a modern cloud environment will pay off exponentially.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

React to this headline:

Waymo robotaxis set to cruise past red tape into LA and beyond 2024-06-21 at 18:45 By Matthew Connatser Google’s self-driving cars can be tested in way mo’ streets now The way is paved for autonomous vehicle company Waymo to extend taxi services beyond San Francisco and into the San Francisco Peninsula and Los Angeles.… This

React to this headline:

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 2024-06-21 at 17:46 By Lindsay Clark Earthly politics and mission planning no match for fast-moving rocky orb Earth possesses “limited readiness” to “quickly implement” needed space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid strike, even with 14 years’ notice.… This article is an excerpt from The

React to this headline:

Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign 2024-06-21 at 17:46 By A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023. “SneakyChef uses lures that are

React to this headline:

Starlink stuffs the internet into a backpack by invitation only 2024-06-21 at 16:47 By Dan Robinson Satellite dishes not just for roofs anymore SpaceX is inviting some customers to buy a new Starlink Mini receiver for its satellite broadband service offered as a portable option, with an introductory price tag of $599 in the US.…

React to this headline:

Military-themed Email Scam Spreads Malware to Infect Pakistani Users 2024-06-21 at 16:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the unknown threat actors behind the activity have leveraged military-related phishing documents to activate the

React to this headline: