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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good 2024-10-08 at 15:46 By Liam Proven Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where’s the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024  One of Stefano Marinelli’s NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.… This article is an […]

Security leaders discuss the new vulnerability added to CISA’s catalog 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By CISA has issued a warning regarding a known, exploited vulnerability. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

81% of U.S. workers have not been trained on generative AI 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By Security practices were analyzed in a recent report, finding that one in two office workers admit to using personal devices to log into work networks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them E-commerce fraud is expected to surge in the next five years thanks to AI, and merchants are advised to respond with … AI.…

Cyberattack Group ‘Awaken Likho’ Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain

New Case Study: The Evil Twin Checkout Page 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an “evil twin” disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice 2024-10-08 at 13:32 By Jude Karabus Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected Picture this. A developer submits a patch to improve the kernel’s performance, only to be met with the scornful gaze of Linux chieftain Linus Torvalds, who declares: “Ah,

GoldenJackal Target Embassies and Air-Gapped Systems Using Malware Toolsets 2024-10-08 at 13:16 By A little-known threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate air-gapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and

Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK ‘Matrix’ ERP deal 2024-10-08 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up A cluster of government departments has opted for Workday HR and finance software, as Oracle and Microsoft make up the vendors losing out to the SaaS-only provider.… This

Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear 2024-10-08 at 11:35 By Richard Speed How do you indent yours? Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the “tabs versus spaces” ring.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

A year after taking on Intel’s NUC mini-PCs, Asus says it’s ready to improve them 2024-10-08 at 10:31 By Simon Sharwood AI is showing the way to new possibilities after a tricky first year A year after winning the rights to build machines based on Intel’s Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PC spec, Taiwan’s Asus

Happy birthday, Putin – you’ve been pwned 2024-10-08 at 09:47 By Jessica Lyons Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown Ukrainian hackers shut down Russian state news agency VGTRK’s online broadcasting and streaming services on Monday – president Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday – as Kremlin officials vowed to bring those responsible for the

Pro-Ukrainian Hackers Strike Russian State TV on Putin’s Birthday 2024-10-08 at 09:16 By Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that targeted Russia state media company VGTRK and disrupted its operations, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The incident took place on the night of October 7, VGTRK confirmed, describing it as an

XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative 2024-10-08 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood XenServer fork plans to make its next version a better target for VMware migrations Vates, the developer behind Xen Server fork XCP-NG, has thanked Broadcom for increasing interest in its work, and criticized Citrix for

Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance 2024-10-08 at 07:46 By Laura Dobberstein Profit doesn’t pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa Samsung Electronics has issued an apology to customers, investors and employees after releasing disappointing preliminary results Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Qualcomm Urges OEMs to Patch Critical DSP and WLAN Flaws Amid Active Exploits 2024-10-08 at 07:46 By Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and open-source components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43047 (CVSS score: 7.8), has

The three “T’s” of device lifecycle management 2024-10-08 at 07:16 By Effective device lifecycle management can prevent disruptions and enhance efficiency and security of an organization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims 2024-10-08 at 06:16 By Iain Thomson Improved security features teased in May now appearing around the world Google has apparently started a global rollout of three features in Android designed to make life a lot harder for thieves to profit from purloined phones.… This article is

Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group 2024-10-08 at 03:31 By Jessica Lyons A couple million will do for a start … but Kim’s crews are suspected of stealing much more The US government is attempting to claw back more than $2.67 million stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus Group,

Epic judge orders Google to let rivals set up app stores 2024-10-08 at 02:32 By Thomas Claburn Chocolate Factory vows to appeal A US court has ordered Google to refrain from a wide variety of business practices the web giant uses to bolster its Play Store, as a consequence of its December 2023 antitrust defeat