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Focus on What Matters Most: Exposure Management and Your Attack Surface 2024-08-23 at 14:31 By Read the full article for key points from Intruder’s VP of Product, Andy Hornegold’s recent talk on exposure management. If you’d like to hear Andy’s insights first-hand, watch Intruder’s on-demand webinar. To learn more about reducing your attack surface, reach out […]

First of ESA’s Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific 2024-08-23 at 13:31 By Richard Speed Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end The first of the European Space Agency’s Cluster satellites is set to return to Earth next month after an extraordinarily long mission.

New Qilin Ransomware Attack Uses VPN Credentials, Steals Chrome Data 2024-08-23 at 13:31 By The threat actors behind a recently observed Qilin ransomware attack have stolen credentials stored in Google Chrome browsers on a small set of compromised endpoints. The use of credential harvesting in connection with a ransomware infection marks an unusual twist, and

LibreOffice 24.8: Handy even if you’re happy with Microsoft 2024-08-23 at 11:31 By Liam Proven Mature, stable – and can rescue rescue corrupt files The second LibreOffice release of 2024 is here, with additional spreadsheet functions, improved presentation layouts, better searching, and more.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

India delays planned space station and moon base by five years 2024-08-23 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein As results from 2023’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma India’s Department of Space has outlined plans to send its first astronaut to space next year, establish a space station by 2035, and land an Indian on

Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft 2024-08-23 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood There’s a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero The Open Compute Project, the org best known for offering designs for hyperscale hardware, has rounded up

New macOS Malware “Cthulhu Stealer” Targets Apple Users’ Data 2024-08-23 at 08:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new information stealer that’s designed to target Apple macOS hosts and harvest a wide range of information, underscoring how threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on the operating system. Dubbed Cthulhu Stealer, the malware has been

Latvian Hacker Extradited to U.S. for Role in Karakurt Cybercrime Group 2024-08-23 at 08:46 By A 33-year-old Latvian national living in Moscow, Russia, has been charged in the U.S. for allegedly stealing data, extorting victims, and laundering ransom payments since August 2021. Deniss Zolotarjovs (aka Sforza_cesarini) has been charged with conspiring to commit money laundering,

Tips for recovering lost DVR or CCTV footage 2024-08-23 at 07:16 By For enterprise security teams and leaders, understanding the intricacies of recovering lost, stolen or overwritten CCTV or DVR footage will drastically improve incident response and real-time security preparedness. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Devs at Asia’s top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT 2024-08-23 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood LY Corp’s QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts LY Corp, a joint venture between Japan’s SoftBank Group and South Korea’s Naver Corporation known for its flagship messaging app LINE, has detailed

China’s rideshare champ Didi gives users the option to report stinky cars 2024-08-23 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers Chinese ride-share provider DiDi Chuxing announced on Thursday that it has started testing a feature that would allow riders to name and shame operators of smelly cars – and

Gamers who think Ryzen 9000s are slow are testing it wrong, says AMD 2024-08-23 at 03:46 By Thomas Claburn Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed AMD has responded to community concerns about underwhelming gaming performance of its Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors by attributing disappointing results recorded by independent testers to

Snowflake claims Iceberg wins table format wars, and Databricks has just proved it 2024-08-23 at 03:01 By Lindsay Clark The data analytics vendor’s CEO says rival’s over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the ‘vindication’ Databricks’ $1 billion plus purchase of Tabular demonstrates Iceberg has won the data table format wars, according to rival data analytics

SolarWinds left critical hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product 2024-08-23 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons Why go to the effort of backdooring code when devs will basically do it for you accidentally anyway SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product that can be used by remote, unauthenticated attackers to log

Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns 2024-08-23 at 00:31 By Dan Robinson Big Blue says companies are so obsessed, basic services are going to pot Is chasing the promise of generative AI causing companies to neglect other IT services? IBM seems to think so.… This article is an

Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back 2024-08-23 at 00:31 By Thomas Claburn Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant Google Chrome 128, released on Wednesday, does not function without intervention on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver,” and Google initially had no

LiquidStack says its new CDU can chill more than 1MW of AI compute 2024-08-22 at 23:16 By Tobias Mann So what’s that good for? Like eight of Nvidia’s NVL-72s? As GPUs and AI accelerators push beyond one kilowatt of power consumption, many systems builders are turning to liquid cooling to manage the heat. However, these

Amazon antitrust case in Washington DC is resurrected 2024-08-22 at 22:32 By Thomas Claburn DC appeals court reverses dismissal, finding enough evidence of anticompetitive behavior to proceed The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday found there was sufficient evidence of anticompetitive behavior by Amazon to allow Washington DC’s antitrust case against the e-commerce