2024

6 Ways to Simplify SaaS Identity Governance 2024-02-21 at 14:32 By With SaaS applications now making up the vast majority of technology used by employees in most organizations, tasks related to identity governance need to happen across a myriad of individual SaaS apps. This presents a huge challenge for centralized IT teams who are ultimately […]

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New ‘VietCredCare’ Stealer Targeting Facebook Advertisers in Vietnam 2024-02-21 at 14:32 By Facebook advertisers in Vietnam are the target of a previously unknown information stealer dubbed VietCredCare at least since August 2022. The malware is “notable for its ability to automatically filter out Facebook session cookies and credentials stolen from compromised devices, and assess whether these accounts

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Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes ‘plop,’ fails to ignite 2024-02-21 at 14:01 By Richard Speed UK demonstrates prowess at nuking the ocean A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson said that a failed Trident missile test does not affect Britain’s nuclear deterrent.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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GNOME 46 beta has more tweaks than a coffee shop 2024-02-21 at 13:01 By Liam Proven The future desktop of Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 is nearly ready GNOME 46 has entered beta testing, and is expected to be released in just over a month.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Microsoft veteran on how to blue screen your way to better testing 2024-02-21 at 12:32 By Richard Speed A crash course on making Windows crash on demand Developers seeking a way of crashing Windows on demand for testing purposes have received a reminder from Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen: NotMyFault is your friend.… This article is

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Cybersecurity for Healthcare—Diagnosing the Threat Landscape and Prescribing Solutions for Recovery 2024-02-21 at 12:16 By On Thanksgiving Day 2023, while many Americans were celebrating, hospitals across the U.S. were doing quite the opposite. Systems were failing. Ambulances were diverted. Care was impaired. Hospitals in three states were hit by a ransomware attack, and in that moment,

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The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs 2024-02-21 at 11:32 By Liam Proven A better UNIX than UNIX isn’t a UNIX at all FOSDEM 2024  To move forwards, you have to let go of the past. In the 1990s that meant incompatibility, but it no longer has to.… This article is

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Orgs are having a major identity crisis while crims reap the rewards 2024-02-21 at 10:31 By Jessica Lyons Hacking your way in is so 2022 – logging in is much easier Identity-related threats pose an increasing risk to those protecting networks because attackers – ranging from financially motivated crime gangs and nation-state backed crews –

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New ‘VietCredCare’ Stealer Targeting Facebook Advertisers in Vietnam 2024-02-21 at 10:16 By Facebook advertisers in Vietnam are the target of a previously unknown information stealer dubbed VietCredCare at least since August 2022. The malware is “notable for its ability to automatically filter out Facebook session cookies and credentials stolen from compromised devices, and assess whether these accounts

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Signal Introduces Usernames, Allowing Users to Keep Their Phone Numbers Private 2024-02-21 at 10:16 By End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal said it’s piloting a new feature that allows users to create unique usernames (not to be confused with profile names) and keep the phone numbers away from prying eyes. “If you use Signal, your

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Europe’s data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier 2024-02-21 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has led European firms to store and process less data, recent economic research suggests, because the privacy rules are making data more costly

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China Unicom becomes Middle Kingdom’s second carrier with a billion subscribers 2024-02-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Rivals aren’t far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing Chinese mega-carrier China Unicom has claimed it’s signed up the billionth subscriber for its “Big Connectivity” service, making it the second Middle Kingdom carrier to

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Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks 2024-02-21 at 08:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to Russia-aligned threat actors by Slovak cybersecurity company ESET, which also identified a spear-phishing campaign aimed at a Ukrainian

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VMware Alert: Uninstall EAP Now – Critical Flaw Puts Active Directory at Risk 2024-02-21 at 08:16 By VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) following the discovery of a critical security flaw. Tracked as CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6), the vulnerability has been described as an arbitrary authentication relay bug. “A malicious actor

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