2024

67% of organizations say employees lack basic security awareness 2024-10-24 at 15:03 By 67% of organizations are concerned that employees lack fundamental security awareness.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

72% of European organizations are using AI in the workplace 2024-10-24 at 15:03 By According to a recent report, 53% of European organizations are confident employees are not properly utilizing generative AI. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Arm to Qualcomm: See you in court? Oh yes, please 2024-10-24 at 14:48 By Gavin Bonshor Doesn’t quite confirm eight-week license cancellation deadline, but does strap on the gloves The Arm/Qualcomm spat just got a little spicier, after the UK chip designer repeated its allegation the US SoC giant has breached its licenses.… This article

Bitwarden’s FOSS halo slips as new SDK requirement locks down freedoms 2024-10-24 at 14:48 By Liam Proven Arguments continue but change suggests it’s not Free Software anymore The Bitwarden online credentials storage service is changing its build requirements – which some commentators feel mean it’s no longer FOSS.… This article is an excerpt from The

Why Phishing-Resistant MFA Is No Longer Optional: The Hidden Risks of Legacy MFA 2024-10-24 at 14:48 By Sometimes, it turns out that the answers we struggled so hard to find were sitting right in front of us for so long that we somehow overlooked them. When the Department of Homeland Security, through the Cybersecurity and

Ransomware’s ripple effect felt across ERs as patient care suffers 2024-10-24 at 13:49 By Jessica Lyons 389 US healthcare orgs infected this year alone Ransomware infected 389 US healthcare organizations this fiscal year, putting patients’ lives at risk and costing facilities up to $900,000 a day in downtime alone, according to Microsoft.… This article is

Lazarus Group Exploits Google Chrome Vulnerability to Control Infected Devices 2024-10-24 at 13:20 By The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome to seize control of infected devices. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it discovered a novel attack chain in

Here’s a NIS2 compliance checklist since no one cares about deadlines anymore 2024-10-24 at 12:48 By Connor Jones Only two EU members have completed the transposition into domestic law The European Union’s NIS2 Directive came into force on January 16, 2023, and member states had until October 17, 2024, to transpose it into national law.

Vivaldi gives its browser a buffing, adds a dashboard 2024-10-24 at 11:33 By Richard Speed Everybody needs more widgets in their life, right? Vivaldi has updated its eponymous browser – it now has a refreshed user interface and a dashboard packed with widgets.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation 2024-10-24 at 11:18 By Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability is also known as FortiJump and is rooted in the FortiGate to FortiManager

On-prem SaaS? ServiceNow will do it if you ask nicely, and really need it 2024-10-24 at 10:35 By Simon Sharwood Turns out its application can work with databases other than its own The sales pitch for software-as-a-service is that you get powerful applications without having to worry about their underlying infrastructure. But SaaSy workflow vendor

Start-up claims to have ‘successfully’ achieved first ‘chat’ between two dreaming humans: ‘Could unlock new dimensions’ 2024-10-24 at 09:33 By Richard Pollina “It will improve the quality of their life so much that people won’t imagine their life without technologies like this. We just need to improve them, and it’s just a matter of time.”

Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams 2024-10-24 at 09:33 By Thomas Claburn All for the low, low price of a mere dollar Scammers, rejoice. OpenAI’s real-time voice API can be used to build AI agents capable of conducting successful phone call scams for less than a dollar.… This article is an

IBM’s mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls 2024-10-24 at 08:50 By Simon Sharwood Red Hat still glowing, but Big Blue’s been bruised by investors In its last few quarterly results announcements, IBM has trumpeted unexpectedly strong growth in its mainframe business, and that’s helped the technology titan to just-about deliver promised mid-single-digit revenue growth in

China’s top messaging app WeChat banned from Hong Kong government computers 2024-10-24 at 08:19 By Laura Dobberstein Google and WhatsApp also binned, which is far easier to explain than canning a local hero Hong Kong’s government has updated infosec guidelines to restrict the use of Chinese messaging app WeChat, alongside Meta and Google products like