August 2024

Average DDoS attack costs $6,000 per minute

Average DDoS attack costs $6,000 per minute 2024-08-21 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 2023 saw a surge in the frequency and duration of DDoS attacks, and in the first half of 2024, it’s clear that surge has become the new normal, according to Zayo. DDoS attack duration increases DDoS attacks surged 106% from H2 […]

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Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity

Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity 2024-08-21 at 04:18 By Simon Sharwood Defense contractor gets hacked – what’s the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an “unauthorized party disrupted the Company’s use of certain servers and some business operation.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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HFB Technologies: Bridging the Gap Between Tech Innovation and Client Trust with Jon Hall

HFB Technologies: Bridging the Gap Between Tech Innovation and Client Trust with Jon Hall 2024-08-21 at 03:13 View original post at Website Planet In the latest WebsitePlanet interview, we sat down with Jon Hall, the CEO of HFB Technologies, to delve into the story behind the company’s founding and its unique approach to website design

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AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all 2024-08-21 at 00:31 By Tobias Mann Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series In an apparent reversal, AMD has decided that its Ryzen 3000-series processors released in 2019 are actually worth patching against the recently disclosed SinkClose vulnerability.… This article is an excerpt

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Writers sue Anthropic for feeding ‘stolen’ copyrighted work into Claude

Writers sue Anthropic for feeding ‘stolen’ copyrighted work into Claude 2024-08-20 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Another day, another lawsuit over how AI lands training sets Anthropic was sued on Monday by three authors who claim the machine-learning lab unlawfully used their copyrighted work to train its Claude AI model.… This article is an excerpt

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Detecting AWS Account Compromise: Key Indicators in CloudTrail Logs for Stolen API Keys

Detecting AWS Account Compromise: Key Indicators in CloudTrail Logs for Stolen API Keys 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By As cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of modern enterprises, ensuring the security of these environments is paramount. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) still being the dominant cloud it is important for any security professional to know where to

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Czech Mobile Users Targeted in New Banking Credential Theft Scheme

Czech Mobile Users Targeted in New Banking Credential Theft Scheme 2024-08-20 at 23:16 By Mobile users in the Czech Republic are the target of a novel phishing campaign that leverages a Progressive Web Application (PWA) in an attempt to steal their banking account credentials. The attacks have targeted the Czech-based Československá obchodní banka (CSOB), as

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Darktrace Co-founder Mike Lynch Presumed Dead After Superyacht Sinks

Darktrace Co-founder Mike Lynch Presumed Dead After Superyacht Sinks 2024-08-20 at 23:01 By SecurityWeek News Mike Lynch, co-founder of Darktrace and Autonomy, is among six people presumed dead after the superyacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily early Monday. The post Darktrace Co-founder Mike Lynch Presumed Dead After Superyacht Sinks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud

Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud 2024-08-20 at 22:16 By Richard Speed AWS first, others to follow VictoriaMetrics has become the latest open source company to offer a hosted product, claiming around five times the savings for customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows Instant Cloning

Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows Instant Cloning 2024-08-20 at 21:31 By Ryan Naraine Backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows instantaneous cloning of RFID smart cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world. The post Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows

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SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11’s altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission

SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11’s altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission 2024-08-20 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Let’s hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity The Polaris Dawn mission to send humans to a 1,400 km orbit – higher than 1966’s Gemini 11 – is set for launch in less than a week.…

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Surge in Software Supply Chain Attacks Demands Heightened Third-Party Vigilance

Surge in Software Supply Chain Attacks Demands Heightened Third-Party Vigilance 2024-08-20 at 20:01 By Cyble Key Takeaways  Overview  Software supply chain attacks burst into public consciousness in 2020 with news of the SolarWinds Orion attack, and a Kaseya VSA ransomware attack in mid-2021 further underscored the risks that third-party software suppliers can pose to their

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Widespread Cloud Exposure: Extortion Campaign Used Exposed AWS ENV Files to Target 110,000 Domains

Widespread Cloud Exposure: Extortion Campaign Used Exposed AWS ENV Files to Target 110,000 Domains 2024-08-20 at 19:33 By Cyble Key Takeaways Overview An extortion campaign targeted more than 100,000 domains by using misconfigured AWS environment variable files (.env files) to ransom data stored in S3 containers. The sophisticated campaign employed automation techniques and extensive knowledge of

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PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena

PostgreSQL in line for DuckDB-shaped boost in analytics arena 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By Lindsay Clark Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database’s perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL’s weaknesses as an analytics database.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices

2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices 2024-08-20 at 19:17 By A survey has revealed that 2 out of 3 Americans cannot distinguish AI voices from real voices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Nigerian Scammer Found Guilty, Sentenced To 12 Years

Nigerian Scammer Found Guilty, Sentenced To 12 Years 2024-08-20 at 18:57 View original post at Safety Detectives A Nigerian national faces a 12-year and 7-month-long sentence for perpetrating multiple online scams. Bamidele Omotosho pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and computer intrusion after his trial in 2022. He

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36% of global internet traffic originated from bots

36% of global internet traffic originated from bots 2024-08-20 at 18:46 By A recent report report found that 91% of cyberattacks – up from 69% in 2023 – targeted multiple customers using mass scanning techniques. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Critical Flaw in Donation Plugin Exposed 100,000 WordPress Sites to Takeover

Critical Flaw in Donation Plugin Exposed 100,000 WordPress Sites to Takeover 2024-08-20 at 18:16 By Ionut Arghire A critical vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress plugin could be exploited for remote code execution and arbitrary file deletion. The post Critical Flaw in Donation Plugin Exposed 100,000 WordPress Sites to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Plane-tracking app admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for over 3 years

Plane-tracking app admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for over 3 years 2024-08-20 at 17:33 By Connor Jones Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users’ data for more than three years.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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New phishing method targets Android and iPhone users

New phishing method targets Android and iPhone users 2024-08-20 at 17:33 By Help Net Security ESET researchers discovered an uncommon type of phishing campaign targeting Android and iPhone users. They analyzed a case observed in the wild that targeted clients of a prominent Czech bank. PWA phishing flow (Source: ESET) This technique is noteworthy because

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