2024

Critical Flaws in Tank Gauge Systems Expose Gas Stations to Remote Attacks 2024-09-30 at 15:31 By Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems from five manufacturers that could expose them to remote attacks. “These vulnerabilities pose significant real-world risks, as they could be exploited by malicious actors to […]

Session Hijacking 2.0 — The Latest Way That Attackers are Bypassing MFA 2024-09-30 at 15:31 By Attackers are increasingly turning to session hijacking to get around widespread MFA adoption. The data supports this, as: 147,000 token replay attacks were detected by Microsoft in 2023, a 111% increase year-over-year (Microsoft).  Attacks on session cookies now happen

Facebook retains consumer data for 180 days post account deletion 2024-09-30 at 15:06 By A study found that Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger), YouTube and Discord keep users’ data for 180 days after they have deleted their accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cloud threats have execs the most freaked out because they’re not prepared 2024-09-30 at 14:46 By Connor Jones Ransomware? More like ‘we don’t care’ for everyone but CISOs Efficiency and scalability are key benefits of enterprise cloud computing, but they come at a cost. Security threats specific to cloud environments are the leading cause of

A Hacker’s Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme 2024-09-30 at 14:16 By Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial business data stored in Microsoft 365, holding

Anthropic’s UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog 2024-09-30 at 14:01 By Richard Speed Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn’t qualify for merger partnership probe The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to drop its investigation into Amazon’s alliance with Anthropic, saying a significant deciding factor was

GNOME 47 brings back some customization options, but let’s not go crazy 2024-09-30 at 13:01 By Liam Proven Release codenamed ‘Denver’ will hit Fedora and Ubuntu next month The latest release of the de facto default desktop of most Linux distros brings some new features – but the GNOME 4x transition isn’t done yet.… This

Extracting vendor promises won’t fix cybersecurity. Extracting teeth might 2024-09-30 at 12:01 By Rupert Goodwins One branch of tech has learned to work together to solve the near-impossible. Now it’s our turn Opinion  To say cybersecurity is mostly very good is like saying Boeing’s Starliner parts mostly work – true, but you’re still going to

Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU 2024-09-30 at 11:16 By Richard Speed Autofocus would have been nice, though HANDS ON  Raspberry Pi has launched a camera module with AI smarts on board. But all that inferencing goodness comes at a price.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext 2024-09-30 at 10:01 By The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in

Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis 2024-09-30 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Is this AI showing the would-be leader of the free world who’s really the boss? Artificial intelligence may have shown the would-be-leader of the free world who’s really in charge, after rogue robo-taxis halted the motorcade of US vice-president – and

China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband 2024-09-30 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Great Firewall reaches all the way into space Beijing has published its proposed regulations for satellite broadband, including a requirement that operators conduct censorship in real time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan’s expense 2024-09-30 at 08:16 By Simon Sharwood PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual ‘key milestone’ It looks like India has scored a deal to host its first semiconductor fab, possibly