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PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025 2025-02-20 at 14:05 By The payment card industry has set a critical deadline for businesses handling cardholder data or processing payments- by March 31, 2025, DMARC implementation will be mandatory! This requirement highlights the importance of preventative measures against email fraud, domain spoofing, and phishing in […]

Cybercriminals Use Eclipse Jarsigner to Deploy XLoader Malware via ZIP Archives 2025-02-20 at 14:05 By A malware campaign distributing the XLoader malware has been observed using the DLL side-loading technique by making use of a legitimate application associated with the Eclipse Foundation. “The legitimate application used in the attack, jarsigner, is a file created during

Chinese-Linked Attackers Exploit Check Point Flaw to Deploy ShadowPad and Ransomware 2025-02-20 at 14:05 By A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare sector, to deploy PlugX and its successor, ShadowPad, with the intrusions ultimately leading to deployment of a ransomware called NailaoLocker in some cases. The campaign, codenamed

Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg 2025-02-20 at 13:47 By Connor Jones The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year Two men are in police custody after being arrested in connection with a July cryptocurrency fraud involving a man in his seventies.… This article is

Ransomware 2025: Attacks Keep Rising as Threat Shows its Resilience 2025-02-20 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team Despite the takedowns of some well-known names, ransomware remains a major cybercrime threat. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think 2025-02-20 at 12:33 By Dan Robinson Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness.… This article

Microsoft’s End of Support for Exchange 2016 and 2019: What IT Teams Must Do Now 2025-02-20 at 12:33 By For decades, Microsoft Exchange has been the backbone of business communications, powering emailing, scheduling and collaboration for organizations worldwide. Whether deployed on-premises or in hybrid environments, companies of all sizes rely on Exchange for seamless internal

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project 2025-02-20 at 11:39 By Lindsay Clark Systems integrator secured ‘variation’ just before mega SAP migration put on hold Systems integrator DXC accrued over 50 percent more than its original contract value for completing less than half the scheduled contract term during

Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec 2025-02-20 at 10:49 By Jessica Lyons FBI and CISA issue reminder – deep sigh – about the importance of patching and backups The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay is possible by

Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider 2025-02-20 at 09:49 By Iain Thomson 2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it’s probing IT ‘security incident’ Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware

Cybersecurity needs more than strong tech, it needs strong messaging 2025-02-20 at 08:52 By While companies invest millions in cybersecurity tools and infrastructure, many overlook a critical component of defense: clear, consistent messaging that builds a security-minded culture. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive 2025-02-20 at 08:39 By Simon Sharwood Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run 2025-02-20 at 07:51 By Simon Sharwood Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance France’s Commissariat à L’énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another

Citrix Releases Security Fix for NetScaler Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of

Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Power Pages Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Microsoft has released security updates to address two Critical-rated flaws impacting Bing and Power Pages, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-21355 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Microsoft Bing Remote Code Execution

US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law 2025-02-20 at 05:19 By Iain Thomson That’s the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people’s private call records.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Trump can’t quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it 2025-02-20 at 01:48 By Tobias Mann Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk Comment  US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS

Trump’s DoD CISO pick previously faced security clearance suspension 2025-02-20 at 00:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Hey, at least Katie Arrington brings a solid resume Donald Trump’s nominee for a critical DoD cybersecurity role sports a resume that outshines many of his past picks, despite previously suspended security clearance.… This article is an excerpt from The

Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to ‘a million qubits’. So far: Eight 2025-02-19 at 23:04 By Thomas Claburn Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too Microsoft says it has developed a quantum-computing chip made with novel materials that is expected to enable the development of

Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos 2025-02-19 at 22:48 By Jessica Lyons You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys … but so can miscreants A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials has been released.…