October 2024

A Sherlock Holmes Approach to Cybersecurity: Eliminate the Impossible with Exposure Validation 2024-10-29 at 14:03 By Sherlock Holmes is famous for his incredible ability to sort through mounds of information; he removes the irrelevant and exposes the hidden truth. His philosophy is plain yet brilliant: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,

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Dutch Police Disrupt Major Info Stealers RedLine and MetaStealer in Operation Magnus 2024-10-29 at 14:03 By The Dutch National Police, along with international partners, have announced the disruption of the infrastructure powering two information stealers tracked as RedLine and MetaStealer. The takedown, which took place on October 28, 2024, is the result of an international

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FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge 2024-10-29 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade The chair of America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) foresees a single network future where space-based comms will be integrated with terrestrial networks to ensure connectivity anywhere.…

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Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data 2024-10-29 at 12:48 By Iain Thomson It’s not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app

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UK immigration seeks tech support, development partner for border crossing systems 2024-10-29 at 11:34 By Lindsay Clark After years of delay, new systems with ‘diverse tech stacks’ need a hand in £195M deal The UK’s Home Office has launched a procurement for tech support and services to oversee border control and immigration via a contract

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Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again 2024-10-29 at 10:40 By Simon Sharwood Only took ’em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat? Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups more guidance on

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U.S. Government Issues New TLP Guidance for Cross-Sector Threat Intelligence Sharing 2024-10-29 at 09:54 By The U.S. government (USG) has issued new guidance governing the use of the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) to handle the threat intelligence information shared between the private sector, individual researchers, and Federal Departments and Agencies. “The USG follows TLP markings

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Microsoft accuses Google of creating a lobbying front called ‘Open Cloud Coalition’ 2024-10-29 at 09:35 By Simon Sharwood Seemingly dissatisfied with CISPE settlement, new UK-centric cloudy industry group calls for end to ‘restrictive licensing’ Microsoft has alleged that a new group of cloud providers and users is a front for Google – a notion the

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Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries 2024-10-29 at 08:35 By Iain Thomson GCHQ job ads seek top talent with bottom-end pay packets While the wages paid by governments seldom match those available in the private sector, it appears that the UK’s intelligence, security and cyber agency is a long way

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New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors 2024-10-29 at 08:35 By More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to speculative execution attacks. The attack, disclosed by ETH

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NASA narrows Artemis III landing target list to nine 2024-10-29 at 07:34 By Laura Dobberstein The Mons Mouton Plateau looks nice this time of year. Or maybe you prefer Slater Plain? NASA has released an updated list of nine potential landing spots near the lunar south pole for Artemis III – the mission that will

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