2024

Claims of hacked voter data aims to cause distrust in elections 2024-09-18 at 15:16 By Claims of hacked voter data are intended to cause distrust in the election process, the FBI and CISA warn.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By Thomas Claburn AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot’s work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have

Why Pay A Pentester? 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just

UK pensions department’s project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B 2024-09-18 at 14:16 By Lindsay Clark Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a £958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR

North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware 2024-09-18 at 14:01 By A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings 2024-09-18 at 13:16 By Dan Robinson Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you’ve got there Google thinks Microsoft’s software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has “first mover” advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft’s licensing – but all are against remedies being

Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared 2024-09-18 at 12:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘Lives will be lost’ as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature  As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end in

Chrome Introduces One-Time Permissions and Enhanced Safety Check for Safer Browsing 2024-09-18 at 12:16 By Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats. “With the newest version of Chrome, you

The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world 2024-09-18 at 11:47 By Liam Proven As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code Part 2  A thought experiment: If the computer business responds to commoditization and globalization like other manufacturing industries do, where does that leave programmers – and