December 2024

Eurocops take down ‘secure’ criminal chat system known as Matrix 2024-12-04 at 10:40 By Iain Thomson They took the red pill French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst 2024-12-04 at 09:33 By Laura Dobberstein Differing China tech policy agendas will send bromance into ‘it’s complicated’ status Canalys Forums APAC  The CEO and founder of channel-centric analyst house Canalys has predicted that the alliance between president-elect Donald Trump and aspiring oligarch Elon Musk will

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Joint Advisory Warns of PRC-Backed Cyber Espionage Targeting Telecom Networks 2024-12-04 at 09:21 By A joint advisory issued by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. has warned of a broad cyber espionage campaign undertaken by People’s Republic of China (PRC)-affiliated threat actors targeting telecommunications providers. “Identified exploitations or compromises associated with these threat actors’

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£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds 2024-12-04 at 08:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo Yes, we’ve been over this before – several times, in fact Microsoft has been sued in the UK to the tune of more than £1 billion over claims Redmond has been overcharging businesses for Windows Server licenses

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Binance accused of tax evasion by India’s finance minister 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Simon Sharwood Nation wants almost $100 million from 17 crypto exchanges – most of it from Binance India’s Finance Ministry has alleged crypto exchange Binance evaded almost $85 million in tax – the vast majority of around $96 million it claims digi-dollar

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Veeam Issues Patch for Critical RCE Vulnerability in Service Provider Console 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Veeam has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting Service Provider Console (VSPC) that could pave the way for remote code execution on susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-42448, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of

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Critical SailPoint IdentityIQ Vulnerability Exposes Files to Unauthorized Access 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SailPoint’s IdentityIQ identity and access management (IAM) software that allows unauthorized access to content stored within the application directory. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10905, has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. It

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Hackers Use Corrupted ZIPs and Office Docs to Evade Antivirus and Email Defenses 2024-12-04 at 07:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a novel phishing campaign that leverages corrupted Microsoft Office documents and ZIP archives as a way to bypass email defenses. “The ongoing attack evades #antivirus software, prevents uploads to sandboxes, and bypasses

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New phishing-as-a-service platform targets Microsoft 365 2024-12-04 at 07:21 By New phishing-as-a-service platform steals Microsoft 365 credentials via large-scale adversary-in-the-middle attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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RISC-V’s AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion 2024-12-04 at 06:04 By Tobias Mann Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after all RISC-V chip designer Tenstorrent has won $693 million of investment – an endorsement of its plans to use the permissively licensed instruction set architecture for workloads like

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FTC scolds two data brokers for allegedly selling your location to the metre 2024-12-04 at 04:52 By Iain Thomson ‘Where we go is who we are’ totally isn’t a creepy ad slogan at all The FTC has reached a settlement with two data brokerages over allegations they harvested precise location data that shows when people

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