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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.… […]

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists 2025-02-19 at 21:45 By Thomas Claburn STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models Feature  On Saturday at the Silverstone Cafe in San Francisco, a smattering of activists gathered to discuss plans to stop […]

Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad 2025-02-19 at 20:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo Black Escalade motorcade sold separately – of course Need to turn heads and burn cash while out on the town? A new app lets you hire armed bodyguards to escort you around […]

X in talks to raise money at $44B valuation — same price Elon Musk paid to buy Twitter: report 2025-02-19 at 20:22 By Thomas Barrabi The possible move would mark the first time that Musk has raised money for X since he took the company private after the acquisition. This article is an excerpt from […]

Hackers Exploit Signal’s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes 2025-02-19 at 20:03 By Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. “The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts […]

Evaluating Email Security Services: Methods, Challenges and Best Practices 2025-02-19 at 19:45 By Warren Sealey Here’s what you need to know to test and compare email security solutions with confidence This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source