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Amazon’s rumored investment in Arm’s IPO might be good insurance 11/08/2023 at 22:17 By Tobias Mann What benefits the chip designer will trickle down to AWS’s Graviton team Analysis  One of Amazon Web Services’ key differentiators is its use of custom silicon, including Arm CPUs throughout its cloud infrastructure.… This article is an excerpt from […]

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Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out 11/08/2023 at 20:33 By Thomas Claburn Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their apps with tracking and ads Interview  In the past nine years, Oleg Anashkin, a software developer based in San Jose, California, has

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HashiCorp’s new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch 11/08/2023 at 19:02 By Liam Proven Company transitions to BSL, and fundies are furious HashiCorp, the vendor of Vagrant, Terraform, and a number of other deployment-automation tools, is changing its software license to the Business Source License. You can still get the source

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Linux project’s first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop 11/08/2023 at 17:49 By Liam Proven An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking The first release of Rhino Linux brings the rolling release model of Arch Linux to an Ubuntu base,

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Researchers Uncover Decade-Long Cyber Espionage on Foreign Embassies in Belarus 11/08/2023 at 17:32 By A hitherto undocumented threat actor operating for nearly a decade and codenamed MoustachedBouncer has been attributed to cyber espionage attacks aimed at foreign embassies in Belarus. “Since 2020, MoustachedBouncer has most likely been able to perform adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks at the ISP

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Amazon fulfillment center cited for ergonomic hazards 11/08/2023 at 17:18 By The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found that an Amazon fulfillment center exposed workers to ergonomic hazards.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it’s surprisingly easy 11/08/2023 at 16:17 By Iain Thomson PhD student admits he probably shouldn’t have given this talk Black Hat  A study into the feasibility of hacking low-Earth orbit satellites has revealed that it’s worryingly easy to do.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Improve routine security program alignment 11/08/2023 at 16:17 By Stronger mission alignment may be the best way for security leaders to keep security programs focused on the top management’s priorities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Addressing retail theft with an intelligent loss prevention approach 11/08/2023 at 16:17 By Retailers have the ability to take an intelligence-led approach to turn loss prevention into a proactive operation rather than a reactive one.   This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Prepare for seasonal weather emergencies and reduce risk 11/08/2023 at 16:17 By Safety procedures and emergency response plans can seem daunting, so security leaders should assign employees to incident management teams. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Enhancing TLS Security: Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Encryption in Chrome 116 11/08/2023 at 15:47 By Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. “Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind a flag in Chrome 115,” Devon O’Brien said in

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Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln 11/08/2023 at 15:05 By Dan Robinson ProxyNotShell vulnerability could be how UK body got pwned, suggests infosec expert The hacking of the UK’s Electoral Commission was potentially facilitated by the exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, according to a security expert.… This article is an excerpt

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Researchers Shed Light on APT31’s Advanced Backdoors and Data Exfiltration Tactics 11/08/2023 at 13:49 By The Chinese threat actor known as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, or Violet Typhoon) has been linked to a set of advanced backdoors that are capable of exfiltrating harvested sensitive information to Dropbox. The malware is part of a

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Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022 11/08/2023 at 13:33 By Thomas Claburn Really? You didn’t bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? Ecommerce stores using Adobe’s open source Magento 2 software are being targeted by an ongoing exploitation campaign based on a critical vulnerability that was patched last year,

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Co-founder of Yandex – Russia’s Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine 11/08/2023 at 12:48 By Laura Dobberstein Arkady Volozh is working with refugee engineers, of which there are plenty Arkady Volozh, co-founder of Russian Google analog Yandex, has denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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New SystemBC Malware Variant Targets South African Power Company 11/08/2023 at 12:47 By An unknown threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack on a power generation company in South Africa with a new variant of the SystemBC malware called DroxiDat as a precursor to a suspected ransomware attack. “The proxy-capable backdoor was deployed

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Zoom’s new London hub – where ‘remote work’ meets ‘we need you back in the office’ 11/08/2023 at 11:48 By Paul Kunert Collaboration, cohesion, and irony all under one roof Zoom is underscoring its mandated return to the physical workplace by opening a London “engagement hub” that it reckons will cater for the needs of

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Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong 11/08/2023 at 09:38 By Brandon Vigliarolo No one’s in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials The International Space Station has perhaps a bit of a housekeeping issue on its hands. Analysis of dust samples from its air filters suggest

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US Cyber Command boss says China’s spooky cyber-skills trail America’s 11/08/2023 at 08:35 By Laura Dobberstein Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a ‘pacing challenge’ The boss of US Cyber Command has opined that China’s cyber and surveillance abilities are not ahead of, or comparable to, to that of the United States.… This article is

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15 New CODESYS SDK Flaws Expose OT Environments to Remote Attacks 11/08/2023 at 08:34 By A set of 15 high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in the CODESYS V3 software development kit (SDK) that could result in remote code execution and denial-of-service under specific conditions, posing risks to operational technology (OT) environments. The flaws, tracked from CVE-2022-47379

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