2024

Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene 2024-08-12 at 17:31 By Connor Jones It also attracts exactly the type of unempathetic people you would think it does Black Hat  Recently published interviews with known doxxers reveal the incredible finances behind the practice and how their extortion tactics are becoming increasingly violent.… This article […]

Twitter’s former chairman sues X over unpaid options 2024-08-12 at 16:47 By Richard Speed Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk’s alleged reluctance to pay his bills Elon Musk’s Twitter X is being sued by its former chairman for damages he alleges run to more than $23 million over unpaid stock options.… This article is

The Art of Deception: Turning the Tables on Attackers with Active Defenses 2024-08-12 at 16:01 By David Broggy Once an attacker enters your network, one of their first actions will be to try and hide their tracks by blending in, using methods of deception such as mimicking normal user activities. A cyber defender can also

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor 2024-08-12 at 15:46 By Tobias Mann 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time Analysis  Although a lot is promised of generative AI, it has the potential to be expensive at scale, and the return on investment isn’t always clear.

How Phishing Attacks Adapt Quickly to Capitalize on Current Events 2024-08-12 at 15:46 By In 2023, no fewer than 94 percent of businesses were impacted by phishing attacks, a 40 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to research from Egress. What’s behind the surge in phishing? One popular answer is AI – particularly

The global lessons learned from the July 19 Crowdstrike event 2024-08-12 at 15:16 By The Crowdstrike interruption highlighted the relationship between cybersecurity and global business, and not in a positive way. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting ‘Epic Fail’ Pwnie award 2024-08-12 at 14:31 By Connor Jones Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable DEF CON  CrowdStrike’s president received commendations from DEF CON attendees after accepting the Pwnie Award for Most Epic Fail, following the recent global IT outage caused by the infamous

Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Solarman and Deye Solar Systems 2024-08-12 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a number of security shortcomings in photovoltaic system management platforms operated by Chinese companies Solarman and Deye that could enable malicious actors to cause disruption and power blackouts. “If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to control

The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning 2024-08-12 at 14:16 By After a good year of sustained exuberance, the hangover is finally here. It’s a gentle one (for now), as the market corrects the share price of the major players (like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google), while other players reassess the market

FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability 2024-08-12 at 14:16 By The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of

India’s Bharti Enterprises now largest shareholder in UK’s BT Group 2024-08-12 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson ‘Surprising move’ for Indian megacorp but less so for French seller Altice India’s Bharti Enterprises has swooped in to buy the 24.5 percent stake in BT Group from Patrick Drahi’s Altice, at a stroke making it the biggest shareholder

In celebration of Curiosity’s successful landing on Mars 2024-08-12 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right While NASA might be struggling to get its Starliner crew home, it’s worth remembering that circa 12 years ago, the agency was celebrating