September 2024

THN Cybersecurity Recap: Last Week’s Top Threats and Trends (September 23-29) 2024-09-30 at 16:31 By Hold onto your hats, folks, because the cybersecurity world is anything but quiet! Last week, we dodged a bullet when we discovered vulnerabilities in CUPS that could’ve opened the door to remote attacks. Google’s switch to Rust is paying off

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Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster 2024-09-30 at 16:16 By Richard Speed Blue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday preview, KB5043145, arrived last week and is already causing some headaches thanks to serious stability issues.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own 2024-09-30 at 15:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies are unreliable, inconsistent, and marred by

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UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab 2024-09-30 at 15:46 By Dan Robinson State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It’s classified UK government has stepped in to buy a fabrication plant to secure supplies of gallium arsenide semiconductors used by the armed forces, saving the jobs

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Critical Flaws in Tank Gauge Systems Expose Gas Stations to Remote Attacks 2024-09-30 at 15:31 By Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems from five manufacturers that could expose them to remote attacks. “These vulnerabilities pose significant real-world risks, as they could be exploited by malicious actors to

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Session Hijacking 2.0 — The Latest Way That Attackers are Bypassing MFA 2024-09-30 at 15:31 By Attackers are increasingly turning to session hijacking to get around widespread MFA adoption. The data supports this, as: 147,000 token replay attacks were detected by Microsoft in 2023, a 111% increase year-over-year (Microsoft).  Attacks on session cookies now happen

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Facebook retains consumer data for 180 days post account deletion 2024-09-30 at 15:06 By A study found that Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger), YouTube and Discord keep users’ data for 180 days after they have deleted their accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Cloud threats have execs the most freaked out because they’re not prepared 2024-09-30 at 14:46 By Connor Jones Ransomware? More like ‘we don’t care’ for everyone but CISOs Efficiency and scalability are key benefits of enterprise cloud computing, but they come at a cost. Security threats specific to cloud environments are the leading cause of

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A Hacker’s Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme 2024-09-30 at 14:16 By Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial business data stored in Microsoft 365, holding

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Anthropic’s UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog 2024-09-30 at 14:01 By Richard Speed Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn’t qualify for merger partnership probe The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to drop its investigation into Amazon’s alliance with Anthropic, saying a significant deciding factor was

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GNOME 47 brings back some customization options, but let’s not go crazy 2024-09-30 at 13:01 By Liam Proven Release codenamed ‘Denver’ will hit Fedora and Ubuntu next month The latest release of the de facto default desktop of most Linux distros brings some new features – but the GNOME 4x transition isn’t done yet.… This

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Extracting vendor promises won’t fix cybersecurity. Extracting teeth might 2024-09-30 at 12:01 By Rupert Goodwins One branch of tech has learned to work together to solve the near-impossible. Now it’s our turn Opinion  To say cybersecurity is mostly very good is like saying Boeing’s Starliner parts mostly work – true, but you’re still going to

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