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Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit 06/09/2023 at 20:01 By Richard Speed Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear? Margrethe Vestager is temporarily stepping down as European Commissioner for Competition to campaign for a job as President of the Management Committee of the European […]

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When humans are the weak link in critical infrastructure cybersecurity 06/09/2023 at 19:47 By This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files 06/09/2023 at 19:17 By Paul Kunert Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) in late August,

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Nominations for Top Cybersecurity Leader 2024 are now open 06/09/2023 at 19:01 By The submission form for Security magazine’s Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024 is now open until November 17, 2023 with awardees named in March 2024. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Windows File Explorer gets nostalgic speed boost thanks to one weird bug 06/09/2023 at 18:32 By Richard Speed A glitch that makes the lives of users better? Where do we sign? An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft’s flagship operating system.… This article is an

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Zero-Day Alert: Latest Android Patch Update Includes Fix for Newly Actively Exploited Flaw 06/09/2023 at 17:33 By Google has rolled out monthly security patches for Android to address a number of flaws, including a zero-day bug that it said may have been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-35674, the high-severity vulnerability is described as a

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Alert: Phishing Campaigns Deliver New SideTwist Backdoor and Agent Tesla Variant 06/09/2023 at 17:33 By The Iranian threat actor tracked as APT34 has been linked to a new phishing attack that leads to the deployment of a variant of a backdoor called SideTwist. “APT34 has a high level of attack technology, can design different intrusion methods

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Chinese meme-makers crown US Commerce Secretary as Huawei brand ambassador 06/09/2023 at 17:17 By Richard Currie Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of Uncle Sam’s actions Chinese netizens have been laughing at the expense of US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, who will be surprised to learn that she has been crowned unofficial

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Anti-scraping policies and data privacy 06/09/2023 at 17:17 By Listen to this episode of The Security Podcasts with Oded Anderman, Program Manager in Meta Platform’s Privacy organization, on data scraping. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Meatbag mishaps more menacing than malware? CISOs think so 06/09/2023 at 16:27 By Richard Speed Company boards, on the other hand, aren’t letting cybersecurity disturb their sleep as much Chief information security officers (or CISOs) see human error as the most significant risk to data protection compared to other UK board directors.… This article is

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A Bucket of Phish: Attackers Shift Tactics with Cloudflare R2 Public Buckets 06/09/2023 at 16:02 By Karla Agregado In our previous blog, we found a lot of phishing and scam URLs abusing Cloudflare services using pages.dev and workers.dev domains, respectively. We’re now seeing a lot of phishing emails with URLs abusing another Cloudflare service which

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Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan 06/09/2023 at 15:16 By Paul Kunert Forced sale of Britian’s biggest semiconductor component maker creating uncertainty over its future Newport Wafer Fab (NWF), Britain’s biggest producer of semiconductor components, has pointed the finger of blame at government restrictions for its decision to chop 100 employees

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Three CISOs Share How to Run an Effective SOC 06/09/2023 at 15:01 By The role of the CISO keeps taking center stage as a business enabler: CISOs need to navigate the complex landscape of digital threats while fostering innovation and ensuring business continuity. Three CISOs; Troy Wilkinson, CISO at IPG; Rob Geurtsen, former Deputy CISO

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Intel NUCs find fresh life in Asus, but rights are ‘non-exclusive’ 06/09/2023 at 14:17 By Tobias Mann As Asrock adds an AMD-powered 4″x4″ not-NUC to its industrial lineup Those mourning the discontinuation of Intel’s quirky little Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PCs can rest easy – Asus has officially taken over development of the product

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9 Alarming Vulnerabilities Uncovered in SEL’s Power Management Products 06/09/2023 at 13:47 By Nine security flaws have been disclosed in electric power management products made by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL). “The most severe of those nine vulnerabilities would allow a threat actor to facilitate remote code execution (RCE) on an engineering workstation,” Nozomi Networks said in a

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SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries 06/09/2023 at 13:06 By Lindsay Clark Schedule is unrealistic… it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member The German-speaking SAP user group has called on the European software giant to extend support for a specialist industry solution based on its ageing

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W3LL Store: How a Secret Phishing Syndicate Targets 8,000+ Microsoft 365 Accounts 06/09/2023 at 12:47 By A previously undocumented “phishing empire” has been linked to cyber attacks aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 business email accounts over the past six years. “The threat actor created a hidden underground market, named W3LL Store, that served a closed

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Home Office asylum system from ’90s misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place 06/09/2023 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs Exclusive  The UK’s Home Office has failed to meet its own deadline for the retirement of a

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Ukraine’s CERT Thwarts APT28’s Cyberattack on Critical Energy Infrastructure 06/09/2023 at 11:20 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. The intrusion, per the agency, started with a phishing email containing a link to a malicious

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission hibernates to see out a long lunar night 06/09/2023 at 10:32 By Katyanna Quach Spacecraft scheduled to snooze until September 22 when it’s hoped machines return to duty India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission has ended its first phase of operations, with the Pragyan rover and Vikram lander entering sleep mode to see

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