November 2024

‘Alarming’ bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years 2024-11-21 at 17:18 By Connor Jones Update now: Qualys says vulnerabilities give root and are ‘easily exploitable’ Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in Ubuntu Server’s needrestart utility that allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access without any user […]

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NY woman receives first fully robotic double lung transplant: ‘An unbelievable thing’ 2024-11-21 at 16:03 By Tracy Swartz “It’s been such a positive, healthy experience,” said Cheryl Mehrkar, 57. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to this headline:

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API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 2024-11-21 at 15:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it’s not clear what happened If you were planning on sending someone money via PayPal, or use it for business, we’ve got bad news: It’s down around

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Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11 2024-11-21 at 15:34 By Richard Speed Never mind ESU… how about that upgrade? Microsoft is encouraging Windows 10 users to move to Windows 11 with more full-screen ads in the doomed operating system that urge users to buy a new Windows 11 PC.… This

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10 Most Impactful PAM Use Cases for Enhancing Organizational Security 2024-11-21 at 15:34 By Privileged access management (PAM) plays a pivotal role in building a strong security strategy. PAM empowers you to significantly reduce cybersecurity risks, gain tighter control over privileged access, achieve regulatory compliance, and reduce the burden on your IT team.  As an

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PayPal hit with ‘system issue’ as outage affects merchant payments 2024-11-21 at 15:18 By Ariel Zilber San Jose-based tech giant said that the outage “may be affecting multiple products in our Production environment.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to this

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DoJ wants Google to sell Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default 2024-11-21 at 14:49 By Richard Speed Filing also suggests it sells Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out The US Department of Justice last night finally filed court documents proposing Google divest itself of Chrome – the most popular

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North Korean Front Companies Impersonate U.S. IT Firms to Fund Missile Programs 2024-11-21 at 14:18 By Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are impersonating U.S.-based software and technology consulting businesses in order to further their financial objectives as part of a broader information technology (IT) worker scheme. “Front companies,

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Cyber Story Time: The Boy Who Cried “Secure!” 2024-11-21 at 14:18 By As a relatively new security category, many security operators and executives I’ve met have asked us “What are these Automated Security Validation (ASV) tools?” We’ve covered that pretty extensively in the past, so today, instead of covering the “What is ASV?” I wanted

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Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do? 2024-11-21 at 13:31 By Lindsay Clark Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely that organizations might create “thousands of bots, but nobody now remembers

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Over 145,000 Industrial Control Systems Across 175 Countries Found Exposed Online 2024-11-21 at 13:27 By New research has uncovered more than 145,000 internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS) across 175 countries, with the U.S. alone accounting for over one-third of the total exposures. The analysis, which comes from attack surface management company Censys, found that 38%

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Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has ‘priorities’ – but still won’t explain ‘spy clause’ 2024-11-21 at 12:49 By Lindsay Clark Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online

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