2024

A new malicious email campaign uses piano-themed scams to lure targets 2024-06-03 at 19:04 By Piano-themed messages are being sent to lure targets into falling for an email scam.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft to spend $3.2B on expanding cloud and AI in green energy-rich Sweden 2024-06-03 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser Budget to be blown on construction and 20K GPUs among other things in the next 2 years Just weeks after reporting a hike in carbon dioxide emissions for 2023, Microsoft says it will invest $3.2 billion

NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling 2024-06-03 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility breaking news  A glitch at the New York Stock Exchange has caused several high-profile stocks to rapidly lose value before being locked from trading.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Russia takes gold for disinformation as Olympics approach 2024-06-03 at 18:01 By Connor Jones Featuring Tom Cruise deepfakes and multiple made-up terrorism threats Still throwing toys out the pram over its relationship with international sport, Russia is engaged in a multi-pronged disinformation campaign against the Olympic Games and host nation France that’s intensifying as the

Researchers Uncover RAT-Dropping npm Package Targeting Gulp Users 2024-06-03 at 17:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new suspicious package uploaded to the npm package registry that’s designed to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised systems. The package in question is glup-debugger-log, which targets users of the gulp toolkit by masquerading as a

Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet 2024-06-03 at 17:32 By Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware.  Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov

US standards agency reports back on just how good age verification software is 2024-06-03 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Getting better, but more work needed The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has examined age estimation software and concluded that it has improved but still needs work.… This article is an excerpt from The

Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint 2024-06-03 at 16:33 By Richard Speed ‘No agreement has been reached,’ Euro cloud lobby insists Microsoft is reportedly preparing to ink a multimillion-euro deal with cloud lobbying group CISPE to make an EU antitrust complaint go away.… This article is

Defeating current DNS-based attacks 2024-06-03 at 16:16 By Domain name systems (DNS) has been undergirding the internet for more than four decades — and still it’s a daily pathway for cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

It’s make your mind up time as Atos sets deadline to pick rescue package 2024-06-03 at 16:02 By Dan Robinson June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Křetínský’s EPEI HPC heavyweight Atos has given itself until June 5 – this Wednesday – to decide between rival financial restructuring proposals to reduce

Cyber Exterminators: Monitoring the Shop Floor with OT Security 2024-06-03 at 16:02 By David Broggy Pressure is increasing on manufacturers to monitor their shop floors for malicious activity to avoid creating major disruptions in the supply chain. One key security defensive tool for monitoring network-connected devices in a manufacturing environment is Operational Technology Security or

Boeing’s Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space 2024-06-03 at 15:31 By Richard Speed ‘Unfortunately a power supply generally does not fail … until it does’ Boeing’s Starliner has failed to launch once again, this time due to a faulty power supply in a ground computer chassis.… This article is an excerpt from

Research discovers the 25 most hacked pop culture passwords 2024-06-03 at 15:16 By New research reveals the most hacked pop culture passwords in 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Huawei to go: China’s tech giant No1… in foldable smartphones 2024-06-03 at 14:31 By Dan Robinson Still struggling to pull in supplies for homegrown 5G SoC, though It seems that US sanctions are not holding back Huawei, as the Chinese tech giant has now risen to the global top spot in smartphone shipments, at least