2024

70% of CISOs feel vulnerable to a material cyberattack in 2024 2024-05-28 at 15:16 By A report surveyed 1,600 CISOs worldwide in order to shed light on their experiences, insights and predictions.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization’s Most Critical Assets 2024-05-28 at 14:47 By You’re probably familiar with the term “critical assets”. These are the technology assets within your company’s IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged

Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s 2024-05-28 at 14:35 By Lindsay Clark Digital age of consent at 13 not even enforced, committee finds A committee of MPs has urged the next government to consider a total ban on smartphones for under-16s in the UK.… This article is an excerpt

We polled thousands of IT pros – and sustainability just ain’t a priority right now 2024-05-28 at 13:47 By Tobias Mann The planet can wait, pal, we’ve got other problems Survey results  While Big Tech wrings its hands about things like greenhouse gas emissions, IT teams out in the trenches aren’t nearly as concerned about

Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique 2024-05-28 at 13:46 By The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “CatDDoS-related gangs’

AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers 2024-05-28 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report Microsoft is achieving the highest margins while at the same time achieving the strongest growth in the UK cloud market, according to a

Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime 2024-05-28 at 11:31 By Rupert Goodwins In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link Opinion  Some ideas work better than others. Take DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Launched by US President Dwight Eisenhower in

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload ‘in half’ 2024-05-28 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe Half a decade hence, software development will be transformed by AI assistance, argue four academics from the University of Lugano in Switzerland.… This article is an excerpt

Alibaba Cloud built its edge network harwdare on Intel Ethernet ASICs 2024-05-28 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers Alibaba Cloud has revealed the hardware design it uses to run networking at its edge locations, and those devices’ reliance

WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites 2024-05-28 at 09:46 By Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites that are capable of harvesting credit card data. The campaign, observed by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, entails the abuse of a WordPress plugin called Dessky

TP-Link Gaming Router Vulnerability Exposes Users to Remote Code Attacks 2024-05-28 at 09:46 By A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices by sending specially crafted requests. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It impacts all versions

Indonesia’s president orders government to stop developing new applications 2024-05-28 at 08:04 By Laura Dobberstein Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software Indonesian president Joko Widodo on Monday ordered government officials to stop developing new applications.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Security leaders respond to ransomware attack on the City of Wichita 2024-05-28 at 07:20 By Security leaders respond to the announcement that the City of Wichita, Kansas, was targeted by a ransomware attack.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source