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Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches 2024-11-19 at 17:32 By Connor Jones Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers Palo Alto Networks (PAN) finally released a CVE identifier and patch for the zero-day exploit that caused such a fuss last week.… This article is an excerpt from […]

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Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC 2024-11-19 at 17:03 By Richard Speed Just as good as Apple at making squat boxes, but this one doesn’t do very much Microsoft is having a go at the terminal market with a device purpose-built to connect to Windows 365, imaginatively named “Windows 365

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Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts 2024-11-19 at 16:45 By Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and perform a series of actions

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Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices 2024-11-19 at 16:45 By The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. “At least 80% of NSOCKS bots in

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Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI 2024-11-19 at 16:05 By Richard Speed Better locking, improved query optimization, and… Copilot Ignite  A new version of Microsoft’s database warhorse, SQL Server, is on the way, with some useful improvements squeezed between the inevitable artificial intelligence additions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview 2024-11-19 at 15:33 By Thomas Claburn They can learn, adapt, and make decisions – but don’t worry, they’re not coming for your job Ignite  Microsoft has fresh tools out designed to help businesses build software agents powered by foundation models – overenthusiastically referred to as artificial

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Privileged Accounts, Hidden Threats: Why Privileged Access Security Must Be a Top Priority 2024-11-19 at 14:48 By Privileged accounts are well-known gateways for potential security threats. However, many organizations focus solely on managing privileged access—rather than securing the accounts and users entrusted with it. This emphasis is perhaps due to the persistent challenges of Privileged

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Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account 2024-11-19 at 14:34 By Connor Jones Fastidious attacker then tidied up email trail behind them A Maryland AI company has confirmed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it lost $250,000 to a misdirected wire payment.… This article is an excerpt

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Europe looks Russia’s way after Baltic Sea data cables severed 2024-11-19 at 14:03 By Lindsay Clark Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania Two optical fiber internet cables under the Baltic Sea appear to have been disrupted, Germany and Finland confirmed, prompting fresh concerns over possible Russian interference with technology infrastructure.… This article

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Northern Ireland schools ditch £485M Fujitsu deal after less than a year 2024-11-19 at 13:19 By Lindsay Clark ‘Mutual agreement’ sees end of contract Fujitsu and a UK public authority have ended a £485 million ($613 million) contract the pair announced in the weeks following a national scandal around the Post Office computer system implemented

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New ‘Helldown’ Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systems 2024-11-19 at 12:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack focus. “Helldown deploys Windows ransomware derived from the LockBit 3.0 code,” Sekoia said in

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Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals 2024-11-19 at 11:34 By Richard Speed MS-DOS, a minimal Windows 3.1, and finally the teal delight of Windows 95 awaited installers Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on

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iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days 2024-11-19 at 10:34 By Thomas Claburn Security researcher’s reverse engineering effort reveals undocumented reboot timer that will make life harder for attackers Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 18, appears to have added an undocumented security feature that reboots devices if

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Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign 2024-11-19 at 10:04 By U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt Typhoon, breached the company as part of a

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Citrix gives its Platform a polish with enhanced management tools 2024-11-19 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Admins promised they can get stuff done with fewer clicks this year … or maybe next Citrix has delivered a little of what it promised in March, when it bundled its software into a “Platform,” in the form of

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CISA Alert: Active Exploitation of VMware vCenter and Kemp LoadMaster Flaws 2024-11-19 at 09:03 By Now-patched security flaws impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster and VMware vCenter Server have come under active exploitation in the wild, it has emerged. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added CVE-2024-1212 (CVSS score: 10.0), a maximum-severity security

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Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened 2024-11-19 at 08:33 By Laura Dobberstein Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot – although it did finish without a battery top-up The South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has forced one of its robo-dogs to run a marathon.… This

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Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy 2024-11-19 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey’s favorite big box store Australian hardware chain Bunnings Warehouse will challenge a ruling by local regulators who found it violated shoppers’ privacy by checking their identities with

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The role of artificial intelligence in cyber resilience 2024-11-19 at 07:18 By Security magazine talks with Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer of Rubrik, about how AI can impact cyber resilience strategies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads 2024-11-19 at 06:18 By Simon Sharwood Shouldn’t have abused messaging dominance, Zuck India’s Competition Commission has slapped Meta with a five-year ban on using info collected from WhatsApp to help with advertising on its other platforms.… This article is an excerpt from

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