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Master Certificate Management: Join This Webinar on Crypto Agility and Best Practices 2024-11-15 at 15:33 By In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting security, customer confidence, and business continuity. Are you prepared to act swiftly when […]

Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google’s Vertex AI ML Platform 2024-11-15 at 15:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google’s Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and exfiltrate models from the cloud. “By exploiting custom job permissions, we were able

Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff 2024-11-15 at 14:34 By Richard Speed Flawed patch stops on-premises, hybrid server transport rules in their tracks for some Microsoft is pausing the rollout of an Exchange security update after it became clear that the patch could break transport rules for some customers.… This article is

Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia 2024-11-15 at 13:50 By A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia with a new Python-based malware called PXA Stealer. The malware “targets victims’ sensitive information, including credentials for various online accounts,

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita’s £130M smart meter splurge 2024-11-15 at 13:33 By Lindsay Clark Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout UK energy regulator Ofgem is set to disallow current and projected costs of nearly £130 million ($165 million) accrued by Data Communications Company (DCC), the

How AI Is Transforming IAM and Identity Security 2024-11-15 at 13:05 By In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun revolutionizing Identity Access Management (IAM), reshaping how cybersecurity is approached in this crucial field. Leveraging AI in IAM is about tapping into its analytical capabilities to monitor access patterns and identify anomalies that could signal

O2’s AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers’ time 2024-11-15 at 12:49 By Dan Robinson Brit mobile network’s Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin Watch out, scammers. O2 has created a new weapon in the fight against fraud: an AI granny that will keep you talking until you get

The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park’s H Block 2024-11-15 at 11:48 By Richard Speed Tunny and Colossus galleries re-roofed The National Museum of Computing has unveiled renovations to keep out the rain and smartening up H block as celebrations take place to mark the 80th anniversary of the Colossus II computer.… This article

High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables 2024-11-15 at 09:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10979, carries a CVSS score

EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace 2024-11-15 at 09:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Mark Z does not like this The European Union has fined Facebook parent Meta €797.72 million ($843 million) for antitrust violations connected to its online classified service Facebook Marketplace. … This article is an excerpt from The Register

Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data 2024-11-15 at 08:50 By Jessica Lyons NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online Private businesses and public-sector organizations are unwittingly exposing millions of people’s sensitive information to the public internet because they misconfigure Microsoft’s Power Pages website

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin 2024-11-15 at 08:34 By Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his involvement in a

Google decides Europe’s political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale 2024-11-15 at 07:33 By Simon Sharwood Will stop accepting ads instead before TTPA comes into force Google has decided the European Union’s Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising will be so hard to comply with it’s better off not trying.…

CISA Flags Critical Palo Alto Network Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild 2024-11-15 at 07:33 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that two more flaws impacting the Palo Alto Networks Expedition have come under active exploitation in the wild. To that, it has added the vulnerabilities to its Known

Inside The 2024 Security Benchmark Report 2024-11-15 at 07:18 By Rachelle Blair-Frasier, Editor in Chief at Security magazine, presents a selection of findings from The 2024 Security Benchmark Report. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Your favorite security leadership podcasts 2024-11-15 at 07:18 By Security leaders share their favorite industry podcasts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with tool left inside engine 2024-11-15 at 06:49 By Laura Dobberstein Nothing bad happened – except to the nylon tool An Airbus A380 operated by Australian airline Qantas clocked over 290 hours of flight time despite a tool having been left inside one of its engines, according to a

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86 2024-11-15 at 05:33 By Simon Sharwood Four-core crawler can’t beat current – or ancient – AMDs or Intels Lenovo’s Chinese operation has created a premium laptop based around a slow and out-of-date x86-compatible processor – but at least it’s locally designed.… This

WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim 2024-11-15 at 03:33 By Thomas Claburn Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size WP Engine, a hosting provider for websites running open source WordPress software, has revised its legal complaint against rival Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg to include antitrust allegations.…

Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff 2024-11-15 at 01:48 By Iain Thomson Because life’s not weird enough in the United States these days Video  The US government has known about aliens since the 1940s, but kept the truth from us all, according to testimony offered at a Wednesday session of