September 2024

Ubuntu Noble updates on hold while 20th anniversary teaser bears retro-styled gifts 2024-09-09 at 14:32 By Liam Proven 22.04 to 24.04 upgrade temporarily withdrawn, but will be back Ubuntu 24.04.1 is still available, but for now you can’t update to it from Jammy Jellyfish until a bug is sorted. To compensate, there are some fun

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Openreach pitches its tent as Ofcom preps review of broadband market rules 2024-09-09 at 14:01 By Dan Robinson Nation’s dominant broadband plumber keen to fend off any efforts to restrict it Openreach wants Reg readers to know that the UK’s fixed telecoms market is coming along just fine, and is imploring regulators to not spoil

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Wing Security SaaS Pulse: Continuous Security & Actionable Insights — For Free 2024-09-09 at 13:46 By Designed to be more than a one-time assessment— Wing Security’s SaaS Pulse provides organizations with actionable insights and continuous oversight into their SaaS security posture—and it’s free! Introducing SaaS Pulse: Free Continuous SaaS Risk Management  Just like waiting for

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Progress Software Issues Patch for Vulnerability in LoadMaster and MT Hypervisor 2024-09-09 at 13:46 By Progress Software has released security updates for a maximum-severity flaw in LoadMaster and Multi-Tenant (MT) hypervisor that could result in the execution of arbitrary operating system commands. Tracked as CVE-2024-7591 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability has been described as an

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CrowdStrike hopes legal threats will fade as time passes since it broke the world 2024-09-09 at 12:46 By Richard Speed CFO says company hasn’t been sued by any customers – yet CrowdStrike has yet to face a lawsuit over July’s global IT meltdown, according to CFO Burt Podbere.… This article is an excerpt from The

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New Android SpyAgent Malware Uses OCR to Steal Crypto Wallet Recovery Keys 2024-09-09 at 12:15 By Android device users in South Korea have emerged as a target of a new mobile malware campaign that delivers a new type of threat dubbed SpyAgent. The malware “targets mnemonic keys by scanning for images on your device that

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Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It’s one of our oldest 2024-09-09 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel Opinion  The Rusting of Linux proceeds apace. Of course there are problems, some technical, some very human. Last week

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MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors 2024-09-09 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Spook bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned

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TIDRONE Espionage Group Targets Taiwan Drone Makers in Cyber Campaign 2024-09-09 at 09:16 By A previously undocumented threat actor with likely ties to Chinese-speaking groups has predominantly singled out drone manufacturers in Taiwan as part of a cyber attack campaign that commenced in 2024. Trend Micro is tracking the adversary under the moniker TIDRONE, stating

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Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse’s skin transparent 2024-09-09 at 08:16 By Iain Thomson Do try this one at home, using a chicken breast and a recipe Scientists have discovered a common food colorant has a remarkable property – making the skin of live mice transparent, so the organs beneath

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U.S. Offers $10 Million for Info on Russian Cadet Blizzard Hackers Behind Major Attacks 2024-09-09 at 07:46 By The U.S. government and a coalition of international partners have officially attributed a Russian hacking group tracked as Cadet Blizzard to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155). “These cyber actors

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