July 2024

How Searchable Encryption Changes the Data Security Game 2024-07-29 at 15:16 By Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Organizations know they must encrypt their most valuable, sensitive data to prevent data theft and breaches. They also understand that organizational data exists to be used. To […]

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Linux Mint 22 ‘Wilma’ still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows 2024-07-29 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Outsmarting Ubuntu’s midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” debuted late last week and holds on to the crown as the most sensible choice if you’re looking to move across from Windows.… This article

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Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality? 2024-07-29 at 12:46 By Richard Speed A headset for workers who want to stride around the room bellowing Review  Logitech has released a lightweight headset aimed squarely at business users. While there are Bluetooth and connectivity options aplenty,

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Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo’s unlikely legacy 2024-07-29 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Neil stepped on a rock. We’re surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us Opinion  Fifty-five years after Neil Armstrong’s one small step, and the future it promised has not come to pass. Nobody has gone back to the

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‘Stargazer Goblin’ Creates 3,000 Fake GitHub Accounts for Malware Spread 2024-07-29 at 10:46 By A threat actor known as Stargazer Goblin has set up a network of inauthentic GitHub accounts to fuel a Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) that propagates a variety of information-stealing malware and netting them $100,000 in illicit profits over the past year. The network,

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Microsoft admits 8.5 million CrowdStruck machines estimate was lowballed 2024-07-29 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Promises to discourage use of kernel drivers – so they don’t crash the world again Microsoft has admitted that its estimate of 8.5 million machines crashed by CrowdStrike’s faulty software update was almost certainly too low, and vowed to reduce

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Gh0st RAT Trojan Targets Chinese Windows Users via Fake Chrome Site 2024-07-29 at 09:16 By The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an “evasive dropper” called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website (“chrome-web[.]com”) serving malicious

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China ponders creating a national ‘cyberspace ID’ 2024-07-29 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Because clearly it’s better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records Beijing may soon issue “cyberspace IDs” to its citizens, after floating a proposal for the scheme last Friday.… This

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US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data 2024-07-29 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ The US Department of Justice has alleged that TikTok shipped personal information to China and allowed profiling of the short video app’s users based on their attitudes to some

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The bad actor’s best friend: Dormant service accounts 2024-07-29 at 07:16 By Inactive accounts are a hotbed of opportunity for attackers, even more so if accounts remain dormant for long periods of time.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now 2024-07-29 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more Five years of trade negotiations reached a milestone last Friday with 91 nations agreeing on new norms for e-commerce – among them extension

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