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Webinar: Learn How to Identify High-Risk Identity Gaps and Slash Security Debt in 2025 2025-02-21 at 14:47 By In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, weak identity security isn’t just a flaw—it’s a major risk that can expose your business to breaches and costly downtime. Many organizations are overwhelmed by an excess of user identities and […]

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’ 2025-02-21 at 13:40 By Paul Kunert It woz The Reg wot won it… or maybe just common sense prevailed among management HP today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to “initial feedback.”… This

AI-Powered Deception is a Menace to Our Societies 2025-02-21 at 13:30 By Wherever there’s been conflict in the world, propaganda has never been far away. Travel back in time to 515 BC and read the Behistun Inscription, an autobiography by Persian King Darius that discusses his rise to power. More recently, see how different newspapers

5 health lessons we can learn from the 1950s — 4 are easy things you can do at home 2025-02-21 at 13:21 By Tracy Swartz The viral tradwife movement, which encourages women to be homemakers and men to be breadwinners, has some people waxing nostalgic for the mid-century. This article is an excerpt from Latest

Inside the new baby-boom movement that’s taken hold of Silicon Valley — complete with gene editing and artificial wombs 2025-02-21 at 13:21 By Rikki Schlott As American fertility rates continue to hit record lows — well below the “replacement rate” from one generation to the next — the pronatalism movement has found a foothold in

Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber? 2025-02-21 at 12:34 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols If you don’t need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions? Opinion  I don’t want to sound like an aging boomer, yet when I see junior programmers relying on AI tools like Copilot, Claude,

Venture capital firm Insight Partners faces security breach 2025-02-21 at 12:18 By A global venture capital firm has announced it experienced a cyber incident. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks 2025-02-21 at 10:41 By Cisco has confirmed that a Chinese threat actor known as Salt Typhoon gained access by likely abusing a known security flaw tracked as CVE-2018-0171, and by obtaining legitimate victim login credentials as part of a targeted campaign aimed at major

CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks 2025-02-21 at 10:41 By A high-severity security flaw impacting the Craft content management system (CMS) has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-23209

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit the scripts we’ve working on for the next flick 2025-02-21 at 09:49 By Iain Thomson The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos As part of its quest for world domination, Amazon has bought the creative rights to fictional British spy James Bond.… This article is an excerpt from

Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws 2025-02-21 at 09:00 By Jessica Lyons PoC exploit code shows why this is a patch priority Security engineers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for four critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager bugs, giving those who haven’t already installed patches released in January extra incentive

1.6M clinical research records exposed in data leakage 2025-02-21 at 08:05 By Research reveals a non-password-protected database associated with a clinical trial site network. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Lenovo isn’t fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI 2025-02-21 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1m of profit, but execs think losses are behind it Lenovo believes its enterprise hardware business is finally on track to achieve consistent profits, if its customers can secure

Thailand ready to welcome 7,000 trafficked scam call center victims back from Myanmar 2025-02-21 at 05:34 By Connor Jones It comes amid a major crackdown on the abusive industry that started during COVID Thailand is preparing to receive thousands of people rescued from scam call centers in Myanmar as the country launches a major crackdown

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future 2025-02-21 at 04:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more Feature  With the National Science Foundation cutting staff to comply with President Trump’s order for sweeping federal government layoffs, concerns are growing

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable 2025-02-21 at 02:50 By Thomas Claburn Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish ’em Some Linux kernel maintainers remain unconvinced that adding Rust code to the open source project is a good idea, but its VIPs are

Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes 2025-02-21 at 02:00 By Jessica Lyons Said bugs ‘can have significant implications’ – glad to hear that from Redmond Microsoft is so concerned about security in its Copilot products for folks that it’s lifted bug bounty payments for moderate-severity vulnerabilities from nothing to

Oops, some of our customers’ Power Pages sites were exploited, says Microsoft 2025-02-21 at 01:31 By Iain Thomson Don’t think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites Microsoft has fixed a security flaw in its Power Pages website-building SaaS, after criminals got there first –

FTC seeks public’s input on ‘un-American’ and ‘potentially illegal’ Big Tech censorship — including ‘shadow banning’ 2025-02-21 at 00:01 By Thomas Barrabi The Federal Trade Commission is seeking the public’s input on whether Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook parent Meta censor their users, the agency announced on Thursday. This article is an excerpt

GitLab and its execs sued again and again over ‘misleading’ AI hype, price hikes 2025-02-21 at 00:01 By Thomas Claburn Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.…