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Dick’s Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack 2024-08-28 at 19:32 By Iain Thomson Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead Dick’s Sporting Goods, America’s largest retail chain for outdoorsy types, has admitted that it suffered a cyberattack last week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences 2024-08-28 at 19:16 By Dan Robinson Major funding backs printer giant’s microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover HP Inc is in line for $50 million from the US CHIPS Act fund for a microfluidics facility it

Why security professionals experience burnout 2024-08-28 at 19:16 By Thomas Kinsella, Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Tines, discusses the challenges contributing to burnout among security professionals.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

NASA’s billion-dollar launcher is behind schedule and burning cash 2024-08-28 at 18:31 By Richard Speed Stop us if you’ve heard this one before NASA is receiving yet another Moon-related kicking. This time, it is over the Mobile Launcher 2 (ML-2) project, on which the agency plans to assemble and launch the beefier versions of its

‘Uncertainty’ drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux 2024-08-28 at 17:31 By Liam Proven Significant improvements to Microsoft’s in-house Linux may follow Microsoft’s in-house professional networking site is moving to Microsoft’s in-house Linux. This could mean that big changes are coming for the former CBL-Mariner distro.… This article is an excerpt from The

APT-C-60 Group Exploit WPS Office Flaw to Deploy SpyGlace Backdoor 2024-08-28 at 17:31 By A South Korea-aligned cyber espionage has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Kingsoft WPS Office to deploy a bespoke backdoor dubbed SpyGlace. The activity has been attributed to a threat actor dubbed

Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025 2024-08-28 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future Microsoft is to discontinue the Microsoft Action Pack and Microsoft Learning Pack on January 21, 2025, sending partners off to potentially pricier and cloudier options.… This article

Susan Chiang hired as Chief Information Security Officer at Headway 2024-08-28 at 16:46 By Susan Chiang has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer at Headway, a mental health organization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft’s chatbot 2024-08-28 at 16:17 By Jessica Lyons Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon Microsoft has fixed flaws in Copilot that allowed attackers to steal users’ emails and other personal data by chaining together a series of LLM-specific attacks, beginning with

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It’s back with a fresh lineup of 16 models 2024-08-28 at 15:16 By Laura Dobberstein Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away Fujitsu this week announced 16 new business notebooks, desktops, tablets, and workstations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Malicious actors are leveraging peak travel and vacation times 2024-08-28 at 15:16 By As Labor Day approaches, new data warns that cybercriminals are exploiting increased traffic to cover their attacks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom 2024-08-28 at 14:46 By Lindsay Clark This is despite the German vendor’s preferred upgrade path There is an even split for large enterprise customers of SAP ERP systems between on-prem and the public cloud – the German vendor’s preferred upgrade path – according

BlackByte Ransomware Exploits VMware ESXi Flaw in Latest Attack Wave 2024-08-28 at 14:46 By The threat actors behind the BlackByte ransomware group have been observed likely exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors, while also leveraging various vulnerable drivers to disarm security protections. “The BlackByte ransomware group continues to leverage tactics, techniques,

As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility 2024-08-28 at 13:38 By Colin Hughes Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition Opinion  Apple is gearing up for its annual fall event, where new iPhone and Apple Watch models traditionally make their debut. This year marks a

Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits 2024-08-28 at 12:47 By Liam Proven A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles Part 1: The eight-bit era  You’ll find below an informal roundup of the slip-ups and missteps that stick in the mind of The Reg FOSS desk, from the dawn of

Rocket Factory Augsburg breaks down the SaxaVord blowout 2024-08-28 at 11:32 By Richard Speed ‘Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate’ With impressive speed and candor, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has provided an update on the anomaly that caused last week’s rocket firing at SaxaVord in Shetland, Scotland, to end

Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum 2024-08-28 at 10:46 By Iain Thomson Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking Theft of packages is an ongoing problem, so one California woman tried a high tech solution to the problem – and her use of Apple’s consumer-grade AirTags

Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware’s end-user compute biz – represents new risks 2024-08-28 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty Analyst firm Gartner has advised customers of Omnissa – the company spun out from VMware’s end-user compute business – that they need to take

CISA Flags Critical Apache OFBiz Flaw Amid Active Exploitation Reports 2024-08-28 at 09:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The