The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns 2024-02-07 at 10:47 By Jessica Lyons ‘Almost zero data being shared across the industry on this particular threat,’ we’re told The commercial spyware economy – despite government and big tech’s efforts to crack down – appears to be booming.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]
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Alaska Airlines’ door-dropping flight was missing bolts 2024-02-07 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn Preliminary investigation confirms pilot chat was overwritten but doesn’t mention attempts to recover data The door plug that fell out of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 last month wasn’t properly bolted into place, according to a preliminary investigation.… This article is an excerpt
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Chinese Hackers Exploited FortiGate Flaw to Breach Dutch Military Network 2024-02-07 at 09:31 By Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that’s used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. “This [computer network] was used for unclassified research and development (R&D),” the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) said in a statement.
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IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads 2024-02-07 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood They’re measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption Datacenters make a lot of hot air, and IBM Japan and NTT Group’s in-house integrator NTT Comware think they can use it to calculate power consumption
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Critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises Flaw Exposes Servers to Takeover – Patch Now 2024-02-07 at 08:31 By JetBrains is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in its TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software that could be exploited by threat actors to take over susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23917, carries a CVSS
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Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them 2024-02-07 at 08:01 By Helga Labus According to recent surveys, 98% of organizations keep their financial, business, customer and/or employee information in the cloud but, at the same time, 95% of cloud security professionals are not sure their security protections and their team would manage to
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India to launch android into space to test its crewed launch capability 2024-02-07 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan flies in 2025 India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a humanoid robot astronaut into this space this year, then send it back alongside
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Prowler: Open-source security tool for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure 2024-02-07 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Prowler is an open-source security tool designed to assess, audit, and enhance the security of AWS, GCP, and Azure. It’s also equipped for incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics preparation. Details The tool includes hundreds of controls that
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Closing the gap between physical and cybersecurity 2024-02-07 at 07:19 By With in-person work increasing, security leaders have looked into improving their physical security solutions. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Phishing is the top attack method used by threat actors 2024-02-07 at 07:19 By Security leaders have worked to mitigate risks associated with AI while also working to meet federal regulations and guidelines. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Enhancing adversary simulations: Learn the business to attack the business 2024-02-07 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Jamieson O’Reilly, Founder of DVULN, discusses adversary simulations, shedding light on challenges rooted in human behavior, decision-making, and responses to evolving cyber threats. Unveiling the interplay between red and blue teams, O’Reilly talks
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Demystifying SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) 2024-02-07 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Threat actors aren’t looking for companies of specific sizes or industries, they are looking for opportunities. Given that many companies operate in the dark and overlook breaches until ransomware attacks occur, this makes the threat actors’ job easy. It also underscores the urgency for proactive
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India probes SAP and IBM over ancient Air India ERP tender 2024-02-07 at 06:02 By Simon Sharwood Procurement process in 2011 deal raises suspicions Indian authorities want to ask IBM and SAP about potentially criminal actions that saw the two tech giants engaged for a 2011 ERP project at Air India.… This article is an
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Cybersecurity teams hesitate to use automation in TDIR workflows 2024-02-07 at 06:01 By Help Net Security Despite reported threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) improvements in security operations, more than half of organizations still experienced significant security incidents in the last year, according to Exabeam. North America experienced the highest rate of security incidents (66%),
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Whitepaper: Why Microsoft’s password protection is not enough 2024-02-07 at 05:48 By Help Net Security Microsoft’s Azure AD Password Protection, now rebranded as Microsoft Entra ID helps users create a password policy they hope will protect their systems from account takeover and other identity and access management issues. However, Entra ID has significant security gaps.
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Meta Says It Will Label AI-Generated Images on Facebook and Instagram 2024-02-07 at 05:01 By Associated Press Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, as the tech industry aims to sort between what’s real and not. The post Meta Says It Will Label AI-Generated
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Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI 2024-02-07 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Everyone should be free to trust AI to make their financial decisions, without knowing if it’s also used against them Republican senators are attempting to block the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to restrict financial
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DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on 2024-02-07 at 03:02 By Iain Thomson Longtime host Caesars ends relationship at short notice It’s an annual meme that DEF CON infosec conference has been canceled, but this time it actually happened.… This article is an excerpt from The Register
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Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about 2024-02-07 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they’ll invent stuff that helps It’s well established that the tens of thousands of GPUs used to train large language models (LLMs) consume a prodigious amount
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Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers 2024-02-07 at 01:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more There’s no need to fret if you lost your invite code to decentralized Twitter spinoff Bluesky – the service has thrown open its doors to
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