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EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft 2024-07-22 at 16:01 By Richard Speed Was a 2009 directive on interoperability to blame? Did the EU force Microsoft to let third parties like CrowdStrike run riot in the Windows kernel as a result of a 2009 undertaking? This is the implication being peddled […]

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De-Risk Technology Transitions and Save Money with Trustwave

De-Risk Technology Transitions and Save Money with Trustwave 2024-07-22 at 16:01 By With all the issues happening in cybersecurity technology lately, such as CrowdStrike’s software update that caused massive outages worldwide last week, it behooves all organizations to take a serious look at their security stack with an eye toward paring it down to help reduce your

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PINEAPPLE and FLUXROOT Hacker Groups Abuse Google Cloud for Credential Phishing

PINEAPPLE and FLUXROOT Hacker Groups Abuse Google Cloud for Credential Phishing 2024-07-22 at 16:01 By A Latin America (LATAM)-based financially motivated actor codenamed FLUXROOT has been observed leveraging Google Cloud serverless projects to orchestrate credential phishing activity, highlighting the abuse of the cloud computing model for malicious purposes. “Serverless architectures are attractive to developers and

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Heeler Security raises $8.5 million to boost application security

Heeler Security raises $8.5 million to boost application security 2024-07-22 at 15:31 By Industry News Heeler Security announced the successful closing of an $8.5 million Seed Series funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures. “Application security requires a new approach that focuses on runtime visibility and that’s exactly what

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Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure 2024-07-22 at 15:16 By Connor Jones Supposed hacktivist efforts previously linked to the Kremlin’s GRU Flying under the radar on Clownstrike day last week, two members of the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR) hacktivist crew are the latest additions to the US sanctions list.… This

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Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update

Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update 2024-07-22 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows

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Application Security Startup Heeler Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Funding

Application Security Startup Heeler Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Funding 2024-07-22 at 15:01 By Ionut Arghire Heeler Security has raised $8.5 million in seed funding for its ProductDNA application security technology. The post Application Security Startup Heeler Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Suspected Scattered Spider Member Arrested in UK

Suspected Scattered Spider Member Arrested in UK 2024-07-22 at 15:01 By Ionut Arghire UK authorities have arrested a 17-year-old suspected of being a member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang. The post Suspected Scattered Spider Member Arrested in UK appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source

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MSPs & MSSPs: How to Increase Engagement with Your Cybersecurity Clients Through vCISO Reporting

MSPs & MSSPs: How to Increase Engagement with Your Cybersecurity Clients Through vCISO Reporting 2024-07-22 at 15:01 By As a vCISO, you are responsible for your client’s cybersecurity strategy and risk governance. This incorporates multiple disciplines, from research to execution to reporting. Recently, we published a comprehensive playbook for vCISOs, “Your First 100 Days as

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Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine

Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Lindsay Clark UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around Exclusive  Software used to cost the University of Oxford’s Covid vaccine research has become the subject of an

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California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack

California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Associated Press The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest trial court in the US, has been the victim of a ransomware attack. The post California Officials Say Largest Trial Court in US Victim of Ransomware Attack appeared

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CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams

CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams 2024-07-22 at 13:47 By Eduard Kovacs The major IT outage caused by CrowdStrike is being leveraged by threat actors for phishing, scams, and malware delivery. The post CrowdStrike Incident Leveraged for Malware Delivery, Phishing, Scams appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Microsoft’s CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members

Microsoft’s CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members 2024-07-22 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Cloud group companies free of Redmond’s compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint EXCLUSIVE  Part of Microsoft’s settlement with a bunch of cloud providers in Europe to make an antitrust complaint disappear is a

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Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role

Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role 2024-07-22 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Read also served at UK’s MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco UK outsourcing provider Serco has appointed Tom Read, head of central government’s digital agency, to the role of group chief digital and technology officer.…

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SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks

SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks 2024-07-22 at 10:46 By The JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish (aka FakeUpdates) is being used to deliver a remote access trojan called AsyncRAT as well as a legitimate open-source project called BOINC. BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client, is an open-source “volunteer computing”

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HCL’s back-to-office plan: come in three days a week, or forget about holidays

HCL’s back-to-office plan: come in three days a week, or forget about holidays 2024-07-22 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Indian tech workers’ union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal HCL Technologies has devised a measure to make sure its India-based employees change out of their pajamas and head into the office: making on-premises

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