July 2024

The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard

The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard 2024-07-22 at 14:33 By Liam Proven Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new A Thinkpad Yoga, modded with a mechanical keyboard, may serve as a wake-up call to both Lenovo and Framework.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine

Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Lindsay Clark UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around Exclusive  Software used to cost the University of Oxford’s Covid vaccine research has become the subject of an

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California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack

California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Associated Press The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest trial court in the US, has been the victim of a ransomware attack. The post California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack appeared

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CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams

CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Eduard Kovacs The major IT outage caused by CrowdStrike is being leveraged by threat actors for phishing, scams, and malware delivery. The post CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Microsoft’s CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members

Microsoft’s CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members 2024-07-22 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Cloud group companies free of Redmond’s compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint EXCLUSIVE  Part of Microsoft’s settlement with a bunch of cloud providers in Europe to make an antitrust complaint disappear is a

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Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role

Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role 2024-07-22 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Read also served at UK’s MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco UK outsourcing provider Serco has appointed Tom Read, head of central government’s digital agency, to the role of group chief digital and technology officer.…

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SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks

SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks 2024-07-22 at 10:46 By The JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish (aka FakeUpdates) is being used to deliver a remote access trojan called AsyncRAT as well as a legitimate open-source project called BOINC. BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client, is an open-source “volunteer computing”

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HCL’s back-to-office plan: come in three days a week, or forget about holidays

HCL’s back-to-office plan: come in three days a week, or forget about holidays 2024-07-22 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Indian tech workers’ union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal HCL Technologies has devised a measure to make sure its India-based employees change out of their pajamas and head into the office: making on-premises

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Curiosity rover is crushing it: ran over a rock and found pure sulfur

Curiosity rover is crushing it: ran over a rock and found pure sulfur 2024-07-22 at 08:34 By Simon Sharwood An unexpected splash of yellow on the red planet The Curiosity rover has found something surprising: rocks made of pure sulfur.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Google, Oracle, and Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

Google, Oracle, and Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? 2024-07-22 at 08:03 By Simon Sharwood New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends Google Cloud has delivered a Broadcom-compliant version of its cloudy VMware offering, and pitched it as a

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Multiple Critical Cisco Bugs Leave Users Vulnerable

Multiple Critical Cisco Bugs Leave Users Vulnerable 2024-07-22 at 08:02 Multiple critical vulnerabilities across Cisco products are leaving users vulnerable to attack, according to reports from several sources. Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Security Email Gateway (SEG) devices to gain administrative access and add root users. The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-20401,

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Cross-industry standards for data provenance in AI

Cross-industry standards for data provenance in AI 2024-07-22 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Saira Jesani, Executive Director of the Data & Trust Alliance, discusses the role of data provenance in AI trustworthiness and its impact on AI models’ performance and reliability. Jesani highlights the collaborative process behind developing cross-industry

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New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMWare ESXi Systems

New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMWare ESXi Systems 2024-07-22 at 07:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a ransomware strain known as Play (aka Balloonfly and PlayCrypt) that’s designed to target VMWare ESXi environments. “This development suggests that the group could be broadening its attacks across the Linux platform,

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Shuffle Automation: Open-source security automation platform

Shuffle Automation: Open-source security automation platform 2024-07-22 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz Shuffle is an open-source automation platform designed by and for security professionals. While security operations are inherently complex, Shuffle simplifies the process. It’s designed to integrate with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and other service providers. Key features Feature-rich workflow editor. App creator

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Cyber insurance 2.0: The systemic changes required for future security

Cyber insurance 2.0: The systemic changes required for future security 2024-07-22 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Digitalization has evolved into a systemic risk for organizations – and, therefore, cyber insurers. With the global cost of cybercrime skyrocketing, something has to change. In this Help Net Security video, Vishaal Hariprasad, CEO at Resilience, discusses how

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Ad-injecting malware posing as DwAdsafe ad blocker uses Microsoft-signed driver

Ad-injecting malware posing as DwAdsafe ad blocker uses Microsoft-signed driver 2024-07-22 at 06:01 By Help Net Security ESET Research has discovered a sophisticated Chinese browser injector: a signed, vulnerable, ad-injecting driver from a mysterious Chinese company. This threat, which ESET dubbed HotPage, comes self-contained in an executable file that installs its main driver and injects

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CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes 2024-07-22 at 03:03 By Simon Sharwood Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5 million machines went down CrowdStrike’s now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.… This article is

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Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted by CrowdStrike Incident, Publishes Recovery Tool

Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted by CrowdStrike Incident, Publishes Recovery Tool 2024-07-21 at 16:31 By Mike Lennon Microsoft says roughly 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by the faulty software update from CrowdStrike, and published a tool to help admins through the recovery process. The post Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted

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Week in review: CrowdStrike update causes widespread IT outage, critical Splunk Enterprise flaw

Week in review: CrowdStrike update causes widespread IT outage, critical Splunk Enterprise flaw 2024-07-21 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide Thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been

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