2024

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings 2024-03-07 at 13:22 By Lindsay Clark Now, who was it ‘challenged’ the NHS to go paperless by 2018? The UK’s finance minister has promised the country’s National Health Service (NHS) £3.4 billion ($4.33 billion) in IT investment, claiming it would unlock £35 billion

Human vs. Non-Human Identity in SaaS 2024-03-07 at 13:22 By In today’s rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their

Ex-Google Engineer Arrested for Stealing AI Technology Secrets for China 2024-03-07 at 12:34 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former Google

HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts 2024-03-07 at 12:26 By Paul Kunert 13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is

Bank’s struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages 2024-03-07 at 11:36 By Lindsay Clark Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on “people and paper” to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled

The DMA hasn’t changed Big Tech’s anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe 2024-03-07 at 10:54 By Thomas Claburn Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality On Thursday, Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals.… This article is an excerpt from The

New Python-Based Snake Info Stealer Spreading Through Facebook Messages 2024-03-07 at 10:53 By Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason

VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws 2024-03-07 at 09:36 By Simon Sharwood Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are

Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims

Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware 2024-03-07 at 08:39 By Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. “The threat actor is distributing Remote

US lawmakers want ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban 2024-03-07 at 08:23 By Laura Dobberstein The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too 2024-03-07 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense China’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space