July 2024

SEC establishes Interagency Securities Council (ISC) 2024-07-24 at 15:16 By The SEC has established the Interagency Securities Council (ISC) to support collaboration between federal, state and local agencies.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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How a Trust Center Solves Your Security Questionnaire Problem 2024-07-24 at 15:01 By Security questionnaires aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re a recurring problem for security and sales teams. They bleed time from organizations, filling the schedules of professionals with monotonous, automatable work. But what if there were a way to reduce or even altogether

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Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals’ costs 2024-07-24 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Redmond comes out swinging as it files with Competition and Markets Authority Microsoft has responded to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe into public cloud services and licensing by insisting that its terms “do not meaningfully

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Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock 2024-07-24 at 14:31 By Richard Speed At least that’s what the app says… BORK!BORK!BORK!  One criticism frequently leveled at electric vehicles is about their batteries: “Won’t they wear out?”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor 2024-07-24 at 13:47 By Richard Speed A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit Former European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake has joined Axiom Space’s astronaut team as a strategic advisor supporting a potential all-UK human spaceflight mission.… This article is an excerpt from The

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How to Reduce SaaS Spend and Risk Without Impacting Productivity 2024-07-24 at 13:46 By There is one simple driver behind the modern explosion in SaaS adoption: productivity. We have reached an era where purpose-built tools exist for almost every aspect of modern business and it’s incredibly easy (and tempting) for your workforce to adopt these

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Patchwork Hackers Target Bhutan with Advanced Brute Ratel C4 Tool 2024-07-24 at 13:46 By The threat actor known as Patchwork has been linked to a cyber attack targeting entities with ties to Bhutan to deliver the Brute Ratel C4 framework and an updated version of a backdoor called PGoShell. The development marks the first time

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Apple’s Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case 2024-07-24 at 12:32 By Richard Speed Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable It is 25 years since Apple’s Clamshell iBook G3 arrived, replete with iMac styling and an innovation – optional Wi-Fi connectivity via Apple’s AirPort.… This article is an excerpt

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CrowdStrike Explains Friday Incident Crashing Millions of Windows Devices 2024-07-24 at 12:31 By Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday blamed an issue in its validation system for causing millions of Windows devices to crash as part of a widespread outage late last week. “On Friday, July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of regular operations,

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School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen 2024-07-24 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021 The UK’s data protection watchdog has reprimanded a school in Essex for using facial recognition for canteen payments, nearly three years after other schools were warned about doing the same.…

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‘Data embassies’ promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea 2024-07-24 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play Embassies are bubbles of sovereignty that local authorities cannot freely enter and in which certain communications are privileged

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Microsoft Defender Flaw Exploited to Deliver ACR, Lumma, and Meduza Stealers 2024-07-24 at 10:16 By A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited as part of a new campaign designed to deliver information stealers such as ACR Stealer, Lumma, and Meduza. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said it detected the stealer campaign targeting

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CISA Adds Twilio Authy and IE Flaws to Exploited Vulnerabilities List 2024-07-24 at 10:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2012-4792 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Microsoft Internet Explorer

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Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit 2024-07-24 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn Web puzzles don’t protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s

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