November 2024

Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing 2024-11-18 at 14:04 By IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the […]

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UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud 2024-11-18 at 13:53 By Lindsay Clark SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK’s tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to £366 million ($461 million) in an effort to move

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Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information 2024-11-18 at 13:03 By A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. “The campaign leveraged the heightened

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Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing 2024-11-18 at 13:03 By IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the

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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It’s not a soup you want to drink at any price 2024-11-18 at 12:49 By Rupert Goodwins You think employee-generated content is bad now?  Opinion  In 1968’s Star Trek episode, “The Ultimate Computer,” Captain Kirk had his ship used to test M5, a new computer. A copilot, if you

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Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board 2024-11-18 at 11:51 By Liam Proven One of the braver lightning talks we’ve seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage Ubuntu Summit 2024  The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available.… This article is an excerpt from The

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NIST trains AI to hear the ‘oh crap’ moment before batteries explode 2024-11-18 at 10:33 By Richard Speed Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with an early warning system for lithium-ion battery fires.… This

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NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit 2024-11-18 at 09:03 By Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was

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First looks at China’s Moon rock samples suggest Luna had volcanoes for longer than previously thought 2024-11-18 at 08:48 By Laura Dobberstein Stuff from the far side is basalt – but less KREEP-y than expected The first ever samples of soil and rock collected from the far side of the moon has revealed more recent

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Lenovo’s enterprise hardware biz booms but profit remains elusive 2024-11-18 at 07:33 By Simon Sharwood Execs at Chinese company confident President Trump’s trade policies won’t present a problem Lenovo’s enterprise business has posted 65 percent year on year growth but still posted a loss.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Making employees your security shield 2024-11-18 at 07:05 By Security awareness training is not just an option, but a strategic imperative. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites 2024-11-18 at 06:57 By A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely gain full administrative access to a susceptible site. The vulnerability, tracked

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