2024

Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients’ records in cyber-attack 2024-06-21 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Two ransomware gangs bragged of massive theft of personal info and medical files Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack.… This article is an excerpt […]

Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America 2024-06-21 at 00:16 By Jessica Lyons Blockade begins July 20 Breaking news  The Biden administration has banned the sale of Kaspersky products and services in the United States, saying the Russian biz is a national security risk.… This article is an excerpt

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid ‘cyber incident’ 2024-06-21 at 00:01 By Connor Jones Downtime set to crash into next week The vendor behind the software on which nearly 15,000 car dealerships across the US rely says an ongoing “cyber incident” has forced it to pull systems offline for a second

Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project 2024-06-20 at 23:16 By Tobias Mann Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now Dell Technologies and Supermicro have been confirmed as the computer makers building an Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer for Elon Musk’s xAI startup.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

IBM, Kyndryl again once sued for age discrimination – this time by its own VPs 2024-06-20 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn More big blues at Big Blue … And of course El Reg coverage is cited in the lawsuit Once again, IBM has been sued for age discrimination, this time alongside spin-off Kyndryl, for allegedly

Tesla’s tight grip on repairs sparks courtroom showdown 2024-06-20 at 22:31 By Lindsay Clark Class action allowed to continue with EV maker’s ‘tying’ practices the focus A judge has ruled that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging the electric car manufacturer denies customers and third parties the right to repair its vehicles.… This article is

Crypto exchange Kraken accuses blockchain security outfit CertiK of extortion 2024-06-20 at 20:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Researchers allegedly stole $3M using the vulnerability, then asked how much it was really worth Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has accused a trio of security researchers of discovering a critical bug, expoliting it

Fare Thee Well ModSecurity: End-of-Life and Last Commercial Rules Update for June 2024 2024-06-20 at 20:32 By A Fourteen-Year Journey Comes to an End In June 2010, Trustwave acquired Breach Security, which brought with it the popular Open-Source Web Application Firewall ModSecurity for Apache. At that time, Trustwave relicensed the code under the Apache license.

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with firms at ad biz conference 2024-06-20 at 19:46 By Matthew Connatser Billionaire claims the ‘go f%$k themselves’ comment was only aimed at specific companies Just seven months ago, Elon Musk told an interviewer: “If someone’s going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go

The CISO role will either flourish or vanish 2024-06-20 at 19:16 By The way the role of CISO is currently structured does not set the CISO, nor the organization, up for success.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home 2024-06-20 at 18:46 By Liam Proven Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature… user error Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory.

Researchers Uncover UEFI Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Intel CPUs 2024-06-20 at 18:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware that affects multiple families of Intel Core desktop and mobile processors. Tracked as CVE-2024-0762 (CVSS score: 7.5), the “UEFIcanhazbufferoverflow” vulnerability has been described as a case of a

French Diplomatic Entities Targeted in Russian-Linked Cyber Attacks 2024-06-20 at 18:01 By State-sponsored actors with ties to Russia have been linked to targeted cyber attacks aimed at French diplomatic entities, the country’s information security agency ANSSI said in an advisory. The attacks have been attributed to a cluster tracked by Microsoft under the name Midnight

Half of Dell US staff reportedly opted for remote work 2024-06-20 at 17:31 By Paul Kunert Reduced promotion prospects for those involved, and some already eyeing up the exit route Return to office (RTO) mandates don’t work, at least not for a reported 50 percent of Dell staff in the US, some of whom are