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Large-user applications vulnerable to dependency confusion attacks 09/08/2023 at 19:48 By A OX Security report found applications with more than 1 billion users are using dependencies which are vulnerable to dependency confusion attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI 09/08/2023 at 19:32 By Richard Currie We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Artificial intelligence is so overhyped right now that even the Catholic Church is wagging a finger.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Collide+Power, Downfall, and Inception: New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs 09/08/2023 at 19:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583), Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), and Inception (CVE-2023-20569), the novel methods follow the disclosure of another newly discovered security vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 architecture-based

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Social media for research and threat intelligence 09/08/2023 at 19:18 By Learn about threat intelligence on this episode of The Security Podcasts with Igal Lytzki, Incident Response team leader at Perception Point. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Can ‘Mad Libs for incident response’ prevent the next MOVEit? 09/08/2023 at 18:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle IBM X-Force lead says yes Black Hat  While MOVEit is just the latest example of a managed file transfer (MFT) tool being exploited by criminals to maximize the amount of data – and money –— they can grab,

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China-Linked Hackers Strike Worldwide: 17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Campaign 09/08/2023 at 17:47 By Hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future attributed the intrusion set to a nation-state group

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The Impact of Patient Care on Healthcare Cybersecurity Practices 09/08/2023 at 17:03 By The role humans play in cybersecurity generally focuses on how people can be the weakest link in an organization’s defense structure. However, when it comes to securing the healthcare industry, people are still paramount, but for quite different reasons. This article is

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Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error 09/08/2023 at 16:02 By Dan Robinson At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week A spreadsheet containing details of serving Northern Ireland police officers was mistakenly posted

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Organizations concerned about enterprise security from unsafe VPNs 09/08/2023 at 15:31 By A recent report reveals that organizations have concerns about their network security due to the risks from VPNs. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 15:01 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

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Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) 09/08/2023 at 15:01 By Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the

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Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way 09/08/2023 at 14:48 By Liam Proven What’s new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives It seems to be kernel update season out there. The current Ubuntu LTS gets a new kernel, Zorin OS 17 gets a new point release – and Mint announces two

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It’s that time of the year again: the trinity of infosec conferences 09/08/2023 at 13:50 By Iain Thomson A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp Black Hat  Another year, another Hacker Summer Camp – the collective phrase for BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON, the infosec conference trinity that traditionally takes place around about this

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Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2023, down from the voluminous 132 vulnerabilities the company fixed last month. This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also

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New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

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U.K. Electoral Commission Breach Exposes Voter Data of 40 Million Britons 09/08/2023 at 13:49 By The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a “complex” cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. “The incident was

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Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining 09/08/2023 at 13:01 By Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller

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Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing 09/08/2023 at 12:34 By Thomas Claburn Rival to CoPilot and CodeWhisperer sees the Big G join the error-ridden robo-coding market Google on Tuesday announced Project IDX, an AI-infused cloud-based integrated development environment.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud 09/08/2023 at 11:34 By Lindsay Clark Approach follows successful contracts in the health sector US spy-tech firm Palantir launched a direct lobbying campaign targeting UK government departments, including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks 09/08/2023 at 11:17 By Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it’s introducing a second user setting to turn off

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