2025

How to Eliminate Identity-Based Threats 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By Despite significant investments in advanced technologies and employee training programs, credential and user-based attacks remain alarmingly prevalent, accounting for 50-80% of enterprise breaches[1],[2]. While identity-based attacks continue to dominate as the leading cause of security incidents, the common approach to identity security threats is still threat […]

SonicWall Urges Immediate Patch for Critical CVE-2025-23006 Flaw Amid Likely Exploitation 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By SonicWall is alerting customers of a critical security flaw impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances that it said has been likely exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-23006, is rated 9.8 out

New Research: The State of Web Exposure 2025 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By Are your websites leaking sensitive data? New research reveals that 45% of third-party apps access user info without proper authorization, and 53% of risk exposures in Retail are due to the excessive use of tracking tools. Learn how to uncover and mitigate these

OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup 2025-01-23 at 13:18 By Liam Proven Coming soon to April’s TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed ‘Fangtooth’ The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by iXsystems. The code will be available very soon in the beta of TrueNAS SCALE 25.04.… This

Can an at-home vagus nerve stimulator reduce stress? New tech could improve sleep, focus and anxiety 2025-01-23 at 13:04 By Tracy Swartz “Vagus nerve stimulation pulls you out of that stressful physiologic state,” Dr. Peter Staats told The Post. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users 2025-01-23 at 12:27 By Jessica Lyons Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a world of hurt

QakBot-Linked BC Malware Adds Enhanced DNS Tunneling and Remote Access Features 2025-01-23 at 12:27 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new BackConnect (BC) malware that has been developed by threat actors linked to the infamous QakBot loader. “BackConnect is a common feature or module utilized by threat actors to maintain persistence and perform

Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024 2025-01-23 at 11:34 By Paul Kunert And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the number of tech firms incorporated in

Report: Healthcare ransomware targets are shifting 2025-01-23 at 11:03 By Certain ransomware groups are targeting healthcare institutions more than other sectors.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Tool touted as ‘first AI software engineer’ is bad at its job, testers claim 2025-01-23 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks A service described as “the first AI software engineer” appears to be rather bad at its job, based on a recent evaluation.… This article is an excerpt from The

Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress 2025-01-23 at 09:30 By Iain Thomson Answers on a postcard to what ‘Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability’ might mean AMD has confirmed at least some of its microprocessors suffer a microcode-related security vulnerability, the existence of which accidentally emerged this month after a

Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9) 2025-01-23 at 09:18 By Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Meeting Management that could permit a remote, authenticated attacker to gain administrator privileges on susceptible instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20156, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out

Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China 2025-01-23 at 08:04 By Simon Sharwood What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches If you want a cheap iPhone, China’s the place to be right now thanks to a government subsidy scheme that

TRIPLESTRENGTH Hits Cloud for Cryptojacking, On-Premises Systems for Ransomware 2025-01-23 at 08:04 By Google on Wednesday shed light on a financially motivated threat actor named TRIPLESTRENGTH for its opportunistic targeting of cloud environments for cryptojacking and on-premise ransomware attacks. “This actor engaged in a variety of threat activity, including cryptocurrency mining operations on hijacked cloud