Cyber budgets year-over-year have increased by 59% 2024-07-08 at 14:16 By A new report finds that organizations are increasing their cyber budgets in order to keep pace with the shifting threat landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says 2024-07-08 at 13:46 By Lindsay Clark Apache Iceberg support makes it a good option for a transactional layer over data lakes, he tells The Register SingleStore, the database that promises analytics and transactions on a single system, took three attempts to get its
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Experts Warn of Mekotio Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Countries 2024-07-08 at 13:31 By Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz). That’s according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware. Mekotio, known to be
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Decryptor for DoNex, Muse, DarkRace, (fake) LockBit 3.0 ransomware released 2024-07-08 at 13:01 By Zeljka Zorz A cryptographic weakness in the DoNex ransomware and its previous incarnations – Muse, fake LockBit 3.0, and DarkRace – has allowed Avast researchers to create a decryptor for files encrypted by all those ransomware variants. DoNex ransom note (Source:
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Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China’s silicon ambitions 2024-07-08 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson They’re cranking ’em out like there’s no tomorrow The European Commission is said to be sounding out chipmakers in the region about China’s expanding production of commodity silicon, which has sparked concerns that it could flood the
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Breaking the rules is in big tech’s blood – now it’s time to break the habit 2024-07-08 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That’s so last century Opinion Microsoft’s journey through intellectual property has been a multi-year saga that makes Game of Thrones look like a haiku.…
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Critical Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Popular Gogs Open-Source Git Service 2024-07-08 at 11:46 By Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant backdoors. The vulnerabilities, according to
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Apple Removes VPN Apps from Russian App Store Amid Government Pressure 2024-07-08 at 10:01 By Apple removed a number of virtual private network (VPN) apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25
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Copilot+ PCs software compatibility issues left to you to sort out, with help from crowdsourcers 2024-07-08 at 09:31 By Simon Sharwood Samsung warned users, but the PC industry’s big players hardly mention the possibility of problems Buyers worried a Copilot+ PC based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SoCs might not run software that matters to them
Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts 2024-07-08 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Vietnam now requires it for some purchases. It may be a fraud risk in Singapore. Or ML could be making it safe The use of selfies to verify identity online is an emerging trend in some parts of the world since the
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July 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of an AV giant in the US 2024-07-08 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz The US celebrated Independence Day last week, providing many with a long weekend leading into patch week. With summer vacations underway, many developers must be out of the office because June was fairly quiet regarding
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How nation-state cyber attacks disrupt public services and undermine citizen trust 2024-07-08 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Greer, VP and GM of the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom, discusses the impact of nation-state cyber attacks on public sector services and citizens, as well as the broader implications for
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Monocle: Open-source LLM for binary analysis search 2024-07-08 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Monocle is open-source tooling backed by a large language model (LLM) for performing natural language searches against compiled target binaries. Monocle can be provided with a binary and search criteria (authentication code, vulnerable code, password strings, etc.), and it will decompile
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China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025 2024-07-08 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, – and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow
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Organizations change recruitment strategies to find cyber talent 2024-07-08 at 06:01 By Help Net Security An estimated 4 million professionals are needed to fill the growing cybersecurity workforce gap, according to Fortinet. At the same time, Fortinet’s 2024 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report found that 70% of organizations indicated that the cybersecurity skills shortage creates
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A friendly guide to containerization for AI work 2024-07-07 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View
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Week in review: A need for a DDoS response plan, human oversight in AI-enhanced software development 2024-07-07 at 11:01 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 4 key steps to building an incident response plan In this Help Net Security interview, Mike Toole,
Russian-Linked Cybercampaigns put a Bull’s-Eye on France. Their Focus? The Olympics and Elections 2024-07-07 at 01:46 By Associated Press Baptiste Robert, a French cybersecurity expert, called on his government – and especially lawmakers – to prepare for the digital threats to come. The post Russian-Linked Cybercampaigns put a Bull’s-Eye on France. Their Focus? The Olympics
Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers 2024-07-06 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn What’s in the box! No seriously, what’s in there that sets our wages Interview Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves “the use of granular data to produce unpredictable,
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Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card 2024-07-06 at 12:01 By Matthew Connatser After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino ‘must be stopped’ Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in
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