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North Korean Hackers Targets Job Seekers with Fake FreeConference App 2024-09-04 at 19:16 By North Korean threat actors have leveraged a fake Windows video conferencing application impersonating FreeConference.com to backdoor developer systems as part of an ongoing financially-driven campaign dubbed Contagious Interview. The new attack wave, spotted by Singaporean company Group-IB in mid-August 2024, is […]

Microsoft’s Inflection acquihire is too small to matter, say UK regulators 2024-09-04 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Deal can’t lessen competition if AI minnow wasn’t much of a competitor Microsoft’s “acquihire” of Inflection AI was today cleared by UK authorities on the grounds that the startup isn’t big enough for its absorption by Microsoft to

Cicada ransomware may be a BlackCat/ALPHV rebrand and upgrade 2024-09-04 at 17:46 By Jessica Lyons Researchers find many similarities, and nasty new customizations such as embedded compromised user credentials The Cicada3301 ransomware, which has claimed at least 20 victims since it was spotted in June, shares “striking similarities” with the notorious BlackCat ransomware, according to

Google Confirms CVE-2024-32896 Exploited in the Wild, Releases Android Security Patch 2024-09-04 at 17:16 By Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known security flaw that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896 (CVSS score: 7.8), relates to

FCC finally gets around to banning Kaspersky from telecoms kit 2024-09-04 at 17:01 By Dan Robinson Communications agency now passing on the order to operators The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has woken up and issued a ban on Kaspersky software being used in telecoms kit, months after Washington deemed it a national security risk and

GenAI spending bubble? Definitely ‘maybe’ says ServiceNow 2024-09-04 at 16:17 By Lindsay Clark It won’t generate hundreds of million of dollars for customers tomorrow, and there’s a ‘lot of noise’ from tech industry ServiceNow is trying to assure investors that payback for enterprise GenAI investment is coming, but it may not be soon and biz

Hackers Hijack 22,000 Removed PyPI Packages, Spreading Malicious Code to Developers 2024-09-04 at 16:16 By A new supply chain attack technique targeting the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has been exploited in the wild in an attempt to infiltrate downstream organizations. It has been codenamed Revival Hijack by software supply chain security firm JFrog, which

Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all 2024-09-04 at 15:32 By Richard Speed Musk fought the law and the law won… for now The sound of a screeching rubber on road was heard in South America last night as Elon Musk’s satellite broadband operation, Starlink, agreed to comply with an order in Brazil

There was a 56% increase in ransomware groups in H1 2024 2024-09-04 at 15:17 By There was a 56% increase in the number of active ransomware groups compared to H1 2023, reflecting a diversification of the ransomware landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Security experts discuss CISA’s cyber incident reporting portal 2024-09-04 at 15:17 By CISA announced its Voluntary Cyber Incident Reporting portal is now live, and security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Double Debian update: 11.11 and 12.7 arrive at once 2024-09-04 at 14:32 By Liam Proven But Bullseye’s days are numbered and it’s time to think about upgrading The latest update to Debian “Bookworm” arrives at the same time as the last ever update to “Bullseye,” and there’s trouble ahead for Nvidia legacy users.… This article

The New Effective Way to Prevent Account Takeovers 2024-09-04 at 14:31 By Account takeover attacks have emerged as one of the most persistent and damaging threats to cloud-based SaaS environments. Yet despite significant investments in traditional security measures, many organizations continue to struggle with preventing these attacks. A new report, “Why Account Takeover Attacks Still

Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit 2024-09-04 at 13:47 By Iain Thomson 60 years since Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun and convert them into

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all 2024-09-04 at 13:16 By Richard Speed As AWS, Microsoft and Gogle hike some prices, it’s time to open up the ROI calculator After an initial euphoric rush to the cloud, administrators are questioning the value and promise of the tech giant’s services.… This

The amber glow of bork illuminates Brighton Station 2024-09-04 at 12:31 By Richard Speed The train on platform 4 is destined for networking hell BORK!BORK!BORK!  Strange things are afoot at Brighton Station as football fans keen to make the journey to London to see their team take on England’s finest instead found themselves destined for

Clearview AI Faces €30.5M Fine for Building Illegal Facial Recognition Database 2024-09-04 at 12:16 By The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) has imposed a fine of €30.5 million ($33.7 million) against facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (E.U.) by building an “illegal database

What is this computing industry anyway? The dawning era of 32-bit micros 2024-09-04 at 11:46 By Liam Proven And you may ask yourself, ‘How do I work this?’ And you may ask yourself, ‘Where is that large computer?’ Part 3  This is the third part of The Register FOSS desk’s roundup of some of the

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer 2024-09-04 at 10:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo The signal may not rot your mind, we can’t say the same for the content Time to take off the tin foil hat: A review of 28 years of research into the health effects of radio wave exposure

European chip lobby seeks more government cash and policy clout 2024-09-04 at 09:46 By Tobias Mann Last year’s €43B was a nice snack. Now for a feast of regulatory capture Sixteen months after the European Union signed off on its €43 billion Chips Act in the hope it would stimulate semiconductor manufacturing in the bloc,