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Capita class action: 2,000 folks affected by data theft sign up 13/09/2023 at 13:17 By Paul Kunert Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure The number of claimants signing up to a Class Action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps […]

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Microsoft Warns of New Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporations via Teams Messages 13/09/2023 at 12:46 By Microsoft is warning of a new phishing campaign undertaken by an initial access broker that involves using Teams messages as lures to infiltrate corporate networks. The tech giant’s Threat Intelligence team is tracking the cluster under the name Storm-0324, which is

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UK government awards chunk of mega-billions tech framework 13/09/2023 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark Deal for tax collector’s legacy application services goes to troupe of suppliers including Accenture, Capgemini and IBM Exclusive  UK government has named the winning suppliers on the first tranche of a tech deal which could be worth a total of £4.2

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Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model 13/09/2023 at 11:32 By Richard Speed If the Chocolate Factory can’t track you to sell ads, what does it have left? A group of Dutch consumer orgs sued Google today for what it alleges are “large-scale privacy violations.”… This article is an excerpt from The

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Portable Large Language Models – not the iPhone 15 – are the future of the smartphone 13/09/2023 at 10:47 By Mark Pesce Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Column  Smartphone innovation has plateaued. The iPhone 15, launched overnight, has some nice additions. But my iPhone 13 will meet my

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Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972 13/09/2023 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Humans just can’t leave anything alone, huh The leftover lunar descent module, which carried the Apollo 17 crew to the surface of the Moon in 1972, triggers tiny artificial moonquakes that rumble through Earth’s natural satellite

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Microsoft Releases Patch for Two New Actively Exploited Zero-Days Flaws 13/09/2023 at 09:02 By Microsoft has released software fixes to remediate 59 bugs spanning its product portfolio, including two zero-day flaws that have been actively exploited by malicious cyber actors. Of the 59 vulnerabilities, five are rated Critical, 55 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate

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Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose 13/09/2023 at 08:17 By Simon Sharwood Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Analyst firm Gartner has observed its clients asking hyperscale cloud vendors to behave more like legacy tech vendors – and feels that might

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Ransomware attack hits Sri Lanka government, causing data loss 13/09/2023 at 07:04 By Laura Dobberstein Running unsupported and unpatched versions of Exchange Server will do that to a country Sri Lanka’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is currently investigating a ransomware attack on the government’s cloud infrastructure that affected around 5,000 email accounts, it revealed

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The 3 pillars of access control 13/09/2023 at 07:03 By Access control can look different for each organization, and security leaders should consider individual needs when picking out access control solutions. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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The security career impact of personal reputation and ethics 13/09/2023 at 07:03 By Security leaders are not immune to public scrutiny, and should consider how actions will reflect back on their professional reputation. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Update Adobe Acrobat and Reader to Patch Actively Exploited Vulnerability 13/09/2023 at 06:01 By Adobe’s Patch Tuesday update for September 2023 comes with a patch for a critical actively exploited security flaw in Acrobat and Reader that could permit an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26369, is rated 7.8 for

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South Korea’s moon orbiter snaps India’s lander 13/09/2023 at 05:17 By Laura Dobberstein As Japan’s space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos South Korea’s science ministry has released a photo taken by the nations Danuri Moon orbiter depicting the landing site of India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission.… This article is an excerpt

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Mozilla Rushes to Patch WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Firefox and Thunderbird 13/09/2023 at 05:16 By Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser. The

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China caught – again – with its malware in another nation’s power grid 13/09/2023 at 03:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Obtaining a disruptive capability could be one possible motivation behind this surge in attacks’ Espionage-ware thought to have been developed by China has once again been spotted within the power grid of a neighboring nation.… This

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Don’t worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it’ll build safe, trustworthy generative AI 13/09/2023 at 01:02 By Katyanna Quach White House bags more voluntary commitments Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia, Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their AI applications before they’re released and prioritize research that will make their systems more

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Grab those updates: Microsoft flings out fixes for already-exploited bugs 13/09/2023 at 00:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Adobe and Android also tackle abused-in-the-wild flaws Patch Tuesday  It’s every Windows admin’s favorite day of the month: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft emitted 59 patches for its September update batch, including two for bugs that have already been

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TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel’s IMS Nanofab unit 13/09/2023 at 00:17 By Tobias Mann Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 TSMC is on a spending spree. The Taiwanese factory goliath just acquired a 10 percent stake in Intel-owned IMS Nanofabrication for $430 million and

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TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel’s IMS Nanofabrics unit 12/09/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 TSMC is on a spending spree. The Taiwanese factory goliath just acquired a 10 percent stake in Intel-owned IMS Nanofabrication for $430 million and

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Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup 12/09/2023 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn Thanks, Europe. Couldn’t have done it without EU Apple surprised almost no one on Thursday with the announcement of several iPhone 15 models and a renovated smartwatch, the details of which were more or less known or guessed by

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