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CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns 2024-09-25 at 10:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS […]

VMware reportedly investigated by Japanese antimonopoly authorities 2024-09-25 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Broadcom’s software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, the nation’s anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware’s software licensing practices.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter 2024-09-25 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later India’s government last week signed off on three big space missions: a Moon lander, a space station module,

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia, team for software-defined cars, IoT integration 2024-09-25 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive

The value of security: building the foundation for modern enterprises 2024-09-25 at 07:16 By Physical security isn’t an afterthought for organizations: it is critical infrastructure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI chatbot gets green light to hallucinate your investment portfolio 2024-09-25 at 06:47 By Tobias Mann Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market AI has driven the stock market into a hype-fueled frenzy, and an Israeli startup has even convinced regulators to let its chatbot hallucinate an

SBF’s right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years 2024-09-25 at 05:16 By Iain Thomson Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, has been sentenced to two years in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to

CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for ‘perfect storm’ that caused global IT outage 2024-09-25 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Argues worse could happen if it loses kernel access CrowdStrike is “deeply sorry” for the “perfect storm of issues” that saw its faulty software update crash millions of Windows machines, leading to the grounding of thousands of

China claims Taiwan, not civilian hackers, behind website vandalism 2024-09-25 at 04:32 By Laura Dobberstein Taiwan laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Taiwan has dismissed Chinese allegations that its military sponsored a recent wave of anti-Beijing cyber attacks.… This article is an excerpt from

WP Engine fires back after Automattic CEO calls it a ‘Cancer’ to WordPress 2024-09-25 at 02:32 By Thomas Claburn Cease and desist letter claims Matt Mullenweg demanded tens of millions for trademark license WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease and desist letter to rival Automattic, to force CEO Matthew Mullenweg to

FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft 2024-09-25 at 01:03 By Thomas Claburn Still business as usual, we’re told Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh 2024-09-24 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons Four Chocolate Factory trackers cracked the Top 25 in all regions Google, once again, is the “undisputed leader” when it comes to monitoring people’s behavior on the internet, according to Kaspersky’s annual web tracking report.… This article is an excerpt from

Russia’s digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing – Malware hits surge 2024-09-24 at 21:46 By Connor Jones Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure Russia’s use of malware to support its military efforts in Ukraine is showing no signs of waning while its tactics

Ancient US air traffic control systems won’t get a tech refresh before 2030 2024-09-24 at 20:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo If they don’t crash first, say government auditors The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don’t expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).…

Necro Android Malware Found in Popular Camera and Browser Apps on Play Store 2024-09-24 at 19:47 By Altered versions of legitimate Android apps associated with Spotify, WhatsApp, and Minecraft have been used to deliver a new version of a known malware loader called Necro. Kaspersky said some of the malicious apps have also been found

Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2 billion bond sale 2024-09-24 at 19:18 By Lindsay Clark Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition strategy.… This article

Ensuring security and compliance in evolving cloud environments 2024-09-24 at 19:18 By With the rapid pace of cloud adoption, organizations are revolutionizing operations but are having a harder time ensuring that systems are deployed with the proper cyber hygiene. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

10 nasty bugs put thousands of fuel storage tanks at risk of attacks 2024-09-24 at 18:48 By Jessica Lyons Thousands of devices remain vulnerable and the US is most exposed to the threat Tens of thousands of fuel storage tanks in critical infrastructure facilities remain vulnerable to zero-day attacks due to buggy Automatic Tank Gauge

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD 2024-09-24 at 18:02 By Tobias Mann And they didn’t even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Over the past few years, we’ve grown accustomed to Xeon processors that, generation after generation, come up short of the competition on some combination of